Age of the Earth: How to calculate.

3 months ago
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Orig title: The Age of the Earth (2018)
The other sermon referred to was "The Exact Age of the Earth" (2008)

Pastor Anderson made a mistake w/ the 1King6:1 passage. Narrator clearly states is 480years after they were come out. Could never make the math come out right w/ King Saul in the mix. The time of the Judges starts 30days out of Egypt. Exodus18.

Caleb is clear in Joshua14:6-15 it has been 45yrs. If we add up the time of the Judges thru Sampson we get 376yrs. 1Samuel4:18 Eli w/ 40yrs=416yrs.

On judges: i did not include the slave time unless it went over the judges time. Also added Abimelek 3yrs, by then out of Egypt 248yrs. Jepthah was 6yrs, but oppressed 18 total, and out of Egypt 311yrs. Matches trash talk of Num11:26. Sampson was 20yrs, but 40yrs total time bc oppression.

Until Samuel, Acts13:20. We find the 20yrs--chasing the Ark 1Samuel7:2. Now we have 436yrs. King David has 40yrs and a 476yrs total. Solomon's 4yrs bring us to the 480yrs we seek.

Also made a difference in the Flood-Abe section. Added Cainan from Luke3. Averaged ages from Arphaxad--Nahor & gave 30yrs. My total was 382yrs. And pushed the flood to 2599BC. i'm in the ballpark. Not much differs:
Creation 4255BC
Birth of Abe 2217BC
Enter Egypt 1927BC
Exodus 1497BC
Another nice study of timelines was Pastor Jason Robinson's series on the Kings of Judah & Israel. Pastor Robinson said the WV church had a chart, but i didn't know how to get so i made my own. Inserted prophets too.

An 8X11 cheat sheet of Earth Age milestones made my bible much shorter.

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