In what year did God created Adam and Eve?
By Aussies2007
@Aussies2007 (5336)
Australia
5 responses
@Kaeli72 (1229)
• United States
13 Feb 07
I do appologize if my previous post seemed rude. It wasn't intended to be so. After rereading it, it came to me as being such.
There are several books of the bible that records the years, ages and events in such a way that one can trace back the time of Adam and Eve. That was something I've never had the desire to do because of the charting involved in it. Perhaps one day I will.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
14 Feb 07
I don't have a bible...
If everyone was reading and doing research on what they want to know... Nobody would be asking questions on myLot and myLot would cease to exist.
Religious people are constantly telling people to go and read the bible instead of answering the question.
@Radicalpatriot (665)
• United States
7 Mar 07
The first Christian leaders and Catholic popes estimated that the earth was created roughly 6,000 years B.C. Scientists who do not buy into the "uniformitarianism" (evolution) model estimate that the earth is very young, and that everything we know of as "earth" came into being around 10,000 B.C. That is the estimated time of Adam and Eve. Now keep in mind that, kin the beginning, running water was rare and that the earth was surrounded by a "firmament," a permanent cloud of sorts, that collapsed around the time of Noah (cirfca 4,000 B.C.) to cause the Great Flood and create the oceans. The oceans have to be somewhat young, otherwise they would have evaporated away by now (or the current continents eroded into them). Adam and Eve were also quite different beings, who lived for 900 years or more and "begat" hundreds of offspring as did their kids, to populate the earth very quickly. Some tribes, like that of Cain, broke off and moved to Africa, but the flood wiped out all but Noah and his kids, Ham, Shem and Japheth. Hamites are primarily African races, Japhites are Eurocentric and Shemites, or "semites," became Jews and Arabs. This is a condensed version, but that is what many scientists actually propose, but do not openly condone.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
7 Mar 07
Human beings have probably lived on the earth about 2 million years. But the story of world history begins only about 5,500 years ago with the invention of writing. The period before people began to write is usually called prehistory.
The beginnings of agriculture about 9,000 B.C. brought about a great revolution in human life. Prehistoric people who learned to farm no longer had to roam in search of food. Instead, they could settle in one place. Some of their settlements grew to become the world's first cities.
The above is copied from the 1999 World Book.
As for the ocean evaporating... this happen everyday. And then the water fall back into rain... and find its way back in the ocean. No matter what happen on Earth, the water cannot desappear or escape Earth. It is the same water which has been there since the formation of the planet... and nature keeps recycling it.
@arseniajoaquin (1732)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
I have made the computation based on some versions of the Holy Bible and from Adam to Christ, there were about 4,086 years and from birth of Christ up to our present year is about 2007 years and so the total would be about 7,000 years.
However, I have just published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English) - http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin (I am a translator of the Word of God from Greek to English), and I found discrepancies of more than 1,000 years and so based on the available records now, God created Adam more than 5,000 years before the birth of Christ.
I have posted a topic Do you know the number of years from Adam? The year of the birth of the patriarchs are shown there.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
7 Mar 07
According to my records... and my computer...
God Appeared to the Hebrews in the middle of Egypt 7000 years ago... made them his people and gave them Israel.
7000 years is when the old testament start.
But the people had already been there for thousand of years... So you have to go back further than that with Adam and Eve if you don't want a clash of history.
You cannot deny the existence of the Sumarians.
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@Zebrochka (333)
• Brazil
11 Feb 07
Hummm. That is a smart question! Aussies, thank you for trying to raise the educational level of MyLot users!
If we imagine that the legend about Adam and Eve is true and they really existed, I would shoot a couple of thousand years BC.
But I am not sure about it. Actually, I guess nobody can be sure. This is all theoretical hypotese. So, the question is, according to the Christian mythology, when did God create Adam and Eve? I guess, we have to address this question to the church.
Is there anybody from the church here?
@arseniajoaquin (1732)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
I am a Christian and a translator of the Word of God from Greek to English.
I have made the computation based on some versions of the Holy Bible and from Adam to Christ, there were about 4,086 years and from birth of Christ up to our present year is about 2007 years and so the total would be about 7,000 years.
However, I have just published GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS (Greek-English) - http://www.lulu.com/arseniajoaquin (I am a translator of the Word of God from Greek to English), and I found discrepancies of more than 1,000 years and so based on the available records now, God created Adam more than 5,000 years before the birth of Christ.
I have posted a topic Do you know the number of years from Adam? The year of the birth of the patriarchs are shown there.
@Dano11 (173)
• United States
6 Mar 07
For the most part, the old testament lists the entire generations of people nd their age of child bearing, at least up to a certain point.
I've not traced it myself, but have heard of it being done, and the most common answer I've heard is roughly 4000 BC, give or take a few years. Is there an actual date? I'm not sure. There is a Jewish calendar that was dating the earth anually, but their years were not the same as ours, and I don't know the ratio by which to convert it.
So, is this absolute fact? no, but I think it is pretty close.