User talk:Bestway50

Not quite sure of the rules but able to shed some light on the discussion.

James Ussher was undoubtedly a scholar and he did indeed discover an critical chronology. Even today modern bible scholars with all the resources of Internet and computing technology have only extend this date of 4004BC by a mere 22 years. I take the point that the chronology is based on whole years and the rounding up could leave room for + or - 2%.

Unfortunately Ussher was also a fundamentalist that is to say one who suffers from the erroneous belief that earth or even the universe was created in 7 literal days. Sadly Ussher took some stick for this gaff and rightly so.

What Ussher had indeed calculated was part of the 7th day. The day of Gods rest from his works of creation. This fact is well understood among serious bible scholars and I take no credit for it. However the result was that traditional church theologians then took sides with Darwinian theology proving false to their calling. All over America's bible belt the argument still rages in courts of law between fundamentalist creationism and atheistic Darwinism. Simple truth is neither side have their facts right but only a thunder bolt from heaven is likely to convince them.

If scientists want to believe that earth was created 46 million years ago the is no conflict with the Genesis account. To bible scholars it appears that earth was established long before the 'days of creation' which deal only with the preparation of the earth for life forms and eventually human life. ie perfect human life. these days appear to be periods of circa 7 millenniums each, but I have no definite corroboration of that.

What really puts the cat among the pigeons in the fact that mans early ancestors appear to have enjoyed life spans of almost a millennium in the early days and that even in the days of Abraham who was undoubtedly a real historical figure life spans in excess of 200 years were not uncommon. Read the Genesis for yourselves, I did not write it. The man Moses is attributed to the writing and compilation of the Genesis and his account is supported by every other bible writer. A well known historical religious figure is also known to have repeatedly taught from this book and according to the gospel writer John actually existed at the time of earths creation and after undergoing the most malicious prosecution in human history was resurrected and rose again on the third day. No marks for guessing his identity.

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