The 6,000 Year Fallacy

Many liberal atheists like to try and belittle conservative Christians by making the obviously absurd claim that conservative Christians believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old. In making that claim, they hope to win support against Christianity and Creationism.

So let us take a brief look at their "claim".

Although there may have been earlier attempts, such as the Scopes trial, it was in 1976 that an atheist took it upon himself to find out the actual date that the "Bible" says the Earth was created. With a copy of the King James Bible in hand, he methodically added up all the years and "generations" mentioned in the Bible, beginning with Adam and ending with the birth of Jesus.
And, based on the King James version of the Bible, the time span from Adam to Jesus was roughly 4,000 years. Since then, 2,000 more years have passed.

And it was he - the liberal atheist with an agenda - who claimed that "Christians believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old." Bear in mind, it was not any Christian making that claim. It was an atheist. And his claim, as bogus as it is, is even more bogus in that he used tainted data to support it - the King James Bible.

Written in 1611, the King James Bible is a loose English translation of the ancient Hebrew texts known as the Scriptures. Inasmuch as it is a translation, there are many errors, and much is lost in translation, as is always the case. More to the point, King James had his own religious agenda - to make people fear God and God's omnipotence, as such fear of God tended to make it easier to rule the people.

With that in mind, it is easy to see why, when translating Genesis and the Creation, King James translated the word "yom" as DAY. With that single stroke of the pen, he made God ever more powerful. But the reality lies in the fact that "yom" is more closely translated as "time". And a "time" could be a day, month, year, eon - any period at all. Hence, by the actual scriptures, the Earth could have been created over six eons, or epochs. Billions of years.

In using an English translation that is incorrect, the atheist manufactured a phony "claim" and laid it at the door of all Christians, making it possible for him to state that, according to the Christian Bible, the Earth is only 6,000 years old. And since science has proved the Earth is more than 4 billion years old, the Bible, and therefore Christianity, are bogus.

And ever since then, liberal atheists all over the world use that same phony argument, based on phony data, to try and minimalize Christianity by saying we believe something that we do not believe. In other words, they are lying.

The fact that they are atheists goes a long way toward showing how ignorant they are. But throwing this bogus claim out there and presenting it as fact proves their ignorance beyond any doubt, regardless of whether or not Biblical Creation actually occured.

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