Robert R. Barney
There is a raging debate among Creationist! Yes, I said CREATIONIST! Many Bible scholars, who are also Creationist scientist believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. However there are other Creationist (and I am one) that thinks that mainstream science is correct and feel that the earth is OLDER than 6,000 years. The term "older" does not imply that we agree on the earth's age however.
As for what the Bible says, IT HAS NEVER given a reference of a 6,000 year old earth. You will not find one scripture that will give you that age. The Bible hints that this present "earth age" is only 6,000 years old, but it is clear that the Bible says there was an age before the age of man on this Earth RULED BY THE DEVIL! The entire universe is a today a "still photo" of the aftermath of a great cosmic "star wars" between the Devil and his demons and Christ and his Angels that took place maybe millions of years ago. The craters on the moon is just one example of this cosmic war. There are no new craters being formed. Scientist rarely tell you that. The Plain Truth is that most of these craters were caused at the same time.
The Bible tells us about the earth's first age under the Devil:
Lucifer means "Shining Star of the Dawn," or "light-bringer." Notice what God’s word says of Lucifer and his reign in that long ago pre-Adamic time: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Jesus Christ said, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven" (Luke 10:18). This happened before Adam! Read in Revelation: "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth,and his angels were cast out with him" (Revelation 12:1-9).
Now notice that before this occurred, there was already a Garden of Eden! And Lucifer was there! "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire" (Ezekiel 28:13-16). Here, the Prince of Tyre is typical of Lucifer, who became Satan, the Devil. None of the descriptions of Lucifer could ever be applied to a mere human. (for more info read this article http://www.garnertedarmstrong.ws/pubs/biblefact.htm.
Your Bible is clear that the earth was reformed BEFORE Adam was placed in it. Where? Genesis 1:1
Gen 1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters". Go to this link to see what the word "WITHOUT" means in the original tongue. (the Hebrew word is:hayah which means 1) to be, BECOME come to pass, exist, happen, fall out. http://cf.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H01961&Version=kjv Hence the verse should read "The Earth BECAME Formless and Void". The word for formless and void in Hebrew is: tohuw bohuw. The only other instance in the Bible that these words are used together is in Jer 4:23 "I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light." From the same article above the author writes" The earth was covered with water, not once, but perhaps many times! When you and I are ushered upon the scene in Genesis 1, we learn that the earth was covered with water; that "...the earth was without form, and void;[Hebrew: tohu and bohu] and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" (Genesis 1:2).
"The Hebrew terms mean "void, empty, vain, waste."
"But God says "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain [tohu], he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:18). There was an earlier, pre-Adamic creation which was destroyed!"
So the Bible plainly agrees with science that the earth is very old. It does not tell us how old. HOWEVER, we know that this earth age can only be about 6-10,000 years old! Why? The rise in Sea Level! You see, the sea has been rising at a constant rate for about 6-10,000 years! If the rate of sea level rise has been constant from year 4,000 BC until 1900 AD and scientist were to use that as the scale to measure the earth's age rather than radio - carbon dating, then we would have a much younger Earth! (http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/k43.htm and http://www.creationism.org/genesis.htm ) If this earth age was any older than that WITHOUT INTERFERENCE FROM GOD, the earth would be one huge ocean today!
By the way, to see the fallacy of radio-carbon dating, visit this site http://www.bible.ca/tracks/dating-radiometric.htm
Below we have a series of articles that shows much of the myth of Global Warming. What I want my reader to understand is that there is an underlying reason for this hoax. It is about a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT under the UN that takes control of yours and my rights. To make us pay a world wide tax on the carbon emissions we create in order to merge us into the ruler ship of an end time BEAST government predicted in the Bible. This end time government will sound GREEN, but it will rule RED. BLOOD RED! Your blood and mine. Just remember the most important headline of all time. It was delivered 2,000 years ago. It said: "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." Matt 24:22. We may be living in this time, or it may be in a generation or two. I do not know, BUT IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!
