For the record, I believe Jesus is God, and Jacob wrestled with Jesus. aggelia.com
I think man was created by God 6,000 years ago. Or thereabouts.
Bible Chronology and Modern Science
There is a widely held present day opinion that man has been on the earth much longer than the Bible indicates.
The two oldest civilizations are those of Babylonia and Egypt. Upon purely archaeological evidence, apart from Biblical statements, the beginning of the historic period in Babylonia is variously placed between 5000 B.C. and 2400 B.C. The beginning of the historic period in Egypt, between 5500 B.C. and 2000 B.C. most historians centering it around 3000 B.C. As for the pre-historic period in both countries, opinions vary from a few centuries to fanciful guesses of untold ages. The Euphrates and Nile valleys are now known to have been of comparitively recent formation, not ante-dating 7000 B.C. Archaelogy and history show that in these valleys man appeared rather suddenly, with a well developed civilization right at the start. There are many scholars who think there is no conclusive evidence yet produced that man has been on earth longer than the traditional Biblical 6000 years.
Writing
Until recent years it was commonly believed that Writing was unknown in the early days of Old Testament history. This was one of the bases of the modern critical theory that some of the Old Testament books were written long after the events they describe, thus embodying the oral tradition. But now the spade of the archaeologist has revealed that written records of important events were made from the dawn of history.
Ante-Diluvian origin of writing
Berosus related a tradition that Xisuthrus, the Babylonian Noah, buried the Sacred Writings before the flood, on tablets of baked clay, at Sippar, and afterward dug them up. There was a tradition among Arabs and Jews that Enoch invented writing, and left a number of books. An ancient Babylonian king recorded that "he loved to read the writings of the age before the flood." Assurbanipal, founder of Nineveh's great library, referred to "inscriptions of the time before the flood."
5 of the most famouse pre-Abrahamic books:
Annipadda's Foundation Tablet
Ur-Nina's Family Portrait
Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures
Stele of Ur-Nammur
Stele of En-hedu-anna |
