Do Christians believe the world is only 6-7k years old?

[Tingun]

I only stated a moral judgement that there must be a problem with a belief if it's used for harming others. It's another question if that belief is true or not.
I agree that just because something is misused, it doesnt make it inherently bad. But beliefs are the results of the human mind, while a tree is not. Yeah, Christianity was meant to be the religion of love, Islam the religion of peace...etc. But then these are only human concepts as well. These beliefs are okay, but some people distorted these. And these distoreted beliefs are morally wrong, but morality is subjective after all. A tree on the other hand cant be morally wrong,because a tree is not a human belief, only the act of humans using it to harm others can be wrong.

1. My original statement was a critique of your original idea that the belief or system of beliefs brought harm. (Referring to Christianity as you originally spoke about Christians causing wars and thing of that nature) I myself implying that it was not caused by this but instead an error in human ethics.

2. Love and peace are not human concepts, the terms "love" and "peace" are lingual labels that humans have put on pre-existing phenomenon. Regardless I understand what you are saying, and I do not believe that those who have bent and used beliefs to their advantage have necessarily believed they were doing the right thing, or at least those who did the actual manipulating. Followers of these manipulations may have been adequately fooled.
Yes this is true a tree is not morally wrong, but as I was referring to most popularized deist beliefs, those that you seemingly claimed were responsible for wars and such, I was able to use the inherently positive or positive-neutral ideas in comparison the inherently positive or positive- neutral tree. (Positive coming from it's generally good effects of the presence of trees on humans)

 

[Jack Spicer]

Dunno, I just showed up in 1995.

 

[Aim64C]

The time between Adam and Jesus is around 4000 years. Jesus is believed to have died around 2,000 years ago.
The math is broken down on this site if you're interested:

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I know it's not a new finding, but I'm just curious... Do people actually believe this?

Depends upon who you ask.

The question of "Do Christians Believe" is about like asking: "Do Asians Believe?"

There are Christians who believe in a strictly literal interpretation of Biblical history - and others who believe it is not meant to be all-inclusive.

I actually have a different theory, entirely, regarding the origins of the universe - which takes into account things like radioisotopes that should simply not exist according to current theories regarding celestial formation and geological activity (to make a long story short, radioactive compounds have been found in concentrations in rocks with half-lives shorter than the estimated age of the rock - which means the isotope should have decayed far more than the deposit indicates - which means the rock has to be millions of years younger than it is supposed to be... which is a difference that cannot be reconciled within the geologic time table).

But suffice to say that my theory could only be entertained by physicists, comprehended by even fewer of those, and outright rejected by all but the most heretical of the group.

60 years from now, it will be the basis by which we are beginning to send signals faster than light - but that's something of a non-argument on my part.

 

[Tartarus]

Some groups of Christians do,and some don't. Literalistic fundamentalism is really a fairly recent movement that emerged in the last century. Anyhow, if you look at some ancient Talmudic commentaries, several Jewish sages believed the seven "days" of creation to represent much longer periods of time. This was back around 1000 AD, long before we had our modern scientific technology.

 

[-Phoënix Flower-]

Jesus christ. The people who say this kind of stuff are the ones who are oblivious and obnoxious, and by your narrow-minded point of view, I'm sure you're one of those people.

Christians are no more irrational than atheists, agnostic, or anyone else. It's a pretty simple idea: they believe in something you don't. What I noticed about atheists and agnostic is that they become highly irritated at the fact that something is not backed up by an 'official' source. Let me remind you, everything that's written in your school text book is not foolproof. Those "facts" are just as fallible as the "theories" you're bashing that Christians make. Stop being an ass and have some respect for another way of thinking. You don't have to agree with it, or even understand it, but bashing it is stupid. No point.

I can never understand how atheists and agnostics bash Christians for being so idealistic when they're some of the most close-minded people known to man; all they do is spit out pessimistic and nihilistic crap thinking they're "superior" to religious people.

Exactly this. Just because you don't believe in something that another person does, it gives you no right to bash their beliefs. You don't have to agree but you should respect everyone and their beliefs.

 

[LED ZEPPELIN]

I'm an agnostic and I belive the world is 4.5billion years old but you must respect other people's opinions. Who guarantees you God doesn't exist?

 

[Zorø]

Yes they do........

 

[Ciao]

They believe what they're told.

 

[WreckRoll]

yes 6000 years old