Let's see... .the Sumerians existed 10000 years ago.
Archaeologists have found a settlement in China with evidence of tools and agriculture that is over 1.36 MILLION years old.
hmmm.. that's a big difference between 6000 and 1.36 million....
6000 Years doctrine has a flaw... duh
by ex-witness 45 Replies latest watchtower bible
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leavingwt
Fundamentalists stick to what the Bible says. Evidence/facts/reality/data matter not.
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JWoods
Of course, we have to remember that the fundamentalists who believe the 6000 years of human existence also believe that the first humans lived for nearly 1000 years.
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sabastious
China is the oldest civilization on the planet.... much much much older than 6000 years....
No matter though, Bible can't be wrong, that would only leave the Bible being right <-- see how that works?
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Sapphy
There's evidence that the Chinese were brewing beer 2000 years before Adam was created.
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Terry
We all possess mental filters.
We discriminate.
We enter certain values in our filter and strain out the rest.
The problem with letting go of religious fallacy is that it is attached to a huge VALUE; eternal life.
As long as we don't violate that desperate and ravenous appetite for life after death we simply must accept only what supports it.
God created blah blah blah in 6 days and rested on the 7th. You can't allow yourself to tamper very much with it.
The best you can hope to do is reinterpret it a bit this way and a bit that way.
Anything else has to be pooh-poohed.
Chaning the filter on your mind requires some honest commitment to maintenance. Worse than giving up smoking.
Habits, rituals, comfort zones, mental states, prejudices, world views; all them are shaken up!
Who is brave enough to risk that without being pushed into it? Not many.
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PSacramento
Where does the bible say the world is only 6000 years old?
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JWoods
Where does the bible say the world is only 6000 years old?
It doesn't - but, if you add up all the ages of the bible patriarchs and set it to a known historical date, like Irish Archbishop James Ussher did, you would come up with something fairly close to 6000 years ago for the creation of Adam. Ussher came up with 4004 BC for the creation of Adam - the JWs have their own slightly different date.
Both of which, of course, violate commonly known scientific discoveries.
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PSacramento
Ok, maybe all those "adding ups" just add up to the lineage of the "Adam family tree" and have very little to do with the resy of the world.
At best, if ther numbers are correct, it can be said that it has been 6000 years since the first man, Adam, became aware of God or was "touched' by God's spirit.
Maybe we have 6000 years of recorded "hebrew" heritage, but beyond that, the bible is silent.
I have heard the "1000 years for a day" crap to justify the 6000 years of creation, but again, just taking numbers and making them mean what you want them to me.
By the same token, of one day was like 1000 years, that could aslo mean that 6 days of creation = 6000 years, but a year for a day makes that 6000 years = 365 000 ( 1 day in each year = 1000 years) which gives us 2,190,000,000 years !
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ProdigalSon
We've become very attached to material existence, because we don't know anything else. The truth is, we can't remember that we are spirits temporarily inhabiting a human body. Not remembering was part of the deal. We've done this many many times. VEry few of us are first-timers. Most of us go back to Lemuria, 50,000 years ago. Edgar Cayce told us we were Atlanteans, but I don't think he saw all the way back. We're here for a purpose, our little part in the evolution of the planet, to make our contribution to the great big data library, the Book of Life. We rolled the dice that we would remember before it was too late.
No big deal if we don't. We'll just have to do it again. Hopefully next time we don't get caught up in doomsday cults that stunt our growth.
There was a lot of truth in "Beam me up, Scotty, this planet sucks."
And that is why we came, to make it better.
~PS
