A major issue of contention between Christains and Scientists ,has been, that of the age of the Universe .most Christains believe that world is 6000yrs old .as calculated by Arch Bishop James Ussher. his calculation were based on when Adam and Eve were created .while Scientist using mordern dating  technology believe the world is over 17Billion years old.both groups are partly right.
The Bible revels many important facts about a subject .if one reads all scriptures that pertain to it.using the various  bible verses on this subject ,will help us to understand the truth about the age of the Universe and the greatness of its maker,God.

Genesis1:1-31 The First chapter of genesis contains the primary creation account in Bible but their are other scriptures in the Bible which add important information about the creation of the orignal Earth. that were not included in the genesis account.

In Job38.
      God is speaking to an afflicted man named Job about many aspects of what
God did when He first created the earth and
the entire Universe. He says to Job: “Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the
earth?…Who laid the measures thereof?…
Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? Or who laid the corner stone
thereof; when the morning stars sang
together, and all the sons of God shouted for
joy?” God speaks of making the clouds in
verse 9, setting the boundaries of the oceans
in verses 8-12, and and there is a reference to polar icecaps in verses 29-30 where the “waters” of “the deep” are “frozen.” In verse 33, God asks Job if he knows about the “ordinances” (laws) of heaven? In other words, God asks Job if he knows about the laws of the Universe which govern its movements and its composition.

In Isaiah 45, God also makes references to the time when he first made the heavens and the earth. In verses 12 and 18, God states: “I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded…For thus says
the LORD who created the heavens: God himself that formed the earth and made it… he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited; I am the LORD; and there is none else.” [Emphasis added.]
Notice that while this verse asserts God made the heavens and the earth and created man upon that earth, God does not state that he “made mankind on the earth” as soon as the earth was created.


  These “stars” were angels (Rev. 12:4), also
described as “sons of God.” (Of course, literal
stars do not sing.) Notice that it says “all” of them
“shouted” and “sang together.” There were not yet demons at the time of creation in Job38.

This scripture shows that the earth was created in a wonderful and beautiful condition. There was great joy and singing. Now read Genesis 1:2.
This verse is mistranslated and does not reflect
the meaning of the original Hebrew. The King
James Version of the Bible says, “And the earth
was without form, and void.” Three key Hebrew
words are all mistranslated here, thus obscuring,
and actually hiding, the verse’s true meaning.
The word translated “was” is hayah. The words for “without form, and void” are tohu
and bohu. Correctly translated, they mean
“chaotic, in confusion, waste and empty.” In
short, a perfectly created earth ( vs. 1), “became
chaotic and confused” (vs. 2). Tohu and bohu are
translated identically in Jeremiah 4:23. Isaiah
34:11, among other places, translates this phrase
as “confusion and emptiness.”
It is evident that at some point after the
heavenly beings shouted for joy when God
first made the earth “to be inhabited,” God
delegated to Lucifer and his complement of
angels the supervision of the physical earth.
The earth was their place of “habitation.”
When Lucifer later rebelled by leaving his
place of habitation to ascend to heaven in a
rebellion to dethrone God, Lucifer was
defeated and hurled back down to their
proper place of “habitation.” Jesus Christ
stated in Luke 10:18 that he had seen
Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Jesus
had to be referring to his own pre-existent
Divine state (John 1:1-3 , 10-14 , 17:5
, Philippians 2:5-11 ) when he saw
Satan hurled down to the earth. Since the
pre-existent Jesus was the one who “made
all things” in the first place (John 1:1-3 ),
he very likely was the one who threw Lucifer
(later called “Satan”) back to his original
place of habitation.
However, the beautiful earth that God
originally made to be inhabited by Lucifer and
many angels was destroyed in the course of
this heavenly warfare. Jude 6 records that
Satan and the angels who left their proper
place of habitation were placed in “chains
under darkness .” Jude 13 likens them to
“wandering stars” amidst the “raging waves
of the sea , foaming out their own shame.”
This post-rebellion state of the earth (with
raging waves and darkness) sounds exactly as the state of the earth in Genesis1:1


Conclusion
God made a beautiful and perfect  Earth and Universe Billions of years ago.that Earth was destoryed when Satan and his angels who rebelled against God .were thrown out of heaven to earth. the creation account in Genesis 1. is were God restored the earth.this is also confirmed by Psalm 104:30
(Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.)
says God renew the Earth.
The seven days of the creation week
are when God renewed a damaged, injured earth then completely covered with water (Gen. 1:2)
So Man has been on earth for about 6000yrs as accounted by christains.but the Earth and the Universe were made by God almightly billions of years ago before man was created.

God: General over all Dominion

Actually humans are older than 6000 years, try again... Mere dogs were tamed 13,000± years ago..

davien:
Actually humans are older than 6000 years, try again... Mere dogs were tamed 13,000± years ago..

Give us proves.

What if scientists later retract their analysis,that the earth is actually about 6000 years old- it was all an egregious error.I guess,in alacrity,you'd also retract yours and modify your biblical interpretation to concur with theirs.

Rubbish post. So people only existed 4000 years before the time of Jesus ?
So from the time of Adam and Eve to our own time is just 6000 years ?
The Sumerian civilisation, Egyptian civilisation,prehistoric,stone age etc all occur within 6000years ?
What does the Op know about Carbon dating or Archeology ?
Who told the Op that the earth or Universe is perfect ? Does he knows the Chaos going on out there ?
Does the Op knows the number of Impacts the earth has experience ?
Who told the Op the biblical Six days of creations translate to 6000years ?
Effects of Religion on Africans is terrifying... Nobody researches or ask questions any more.
We just follow like zombies...
Too bad

crusadistic:
What if scientists later retract their analysis,that the earth is actually about 6000 years old- it was all an egregious error.I guess,in alacrity,you'd also retract yours and modify your biblical interpretation to concur with theirs.

It will never happen. i wrote my article based on facts not assumptions or wishful thoughts

osymerga:
Rubbish post. So people only existed 4000 years before the time of Jesus ?
So from the time of Adam and Eve to our own time is just 6000 years ?
The Sumerian civilisation, Egyptian civilisation,prehistoric,stone age etc all occur within 6000years ?
What does the Op know about Carbon dating or Archeology ?
Who told the Op that the earth or Universe is perfect ? Does he knows the Chaos going on out there ?
Does the Op knows the number of Impacts the earth has experience ?
Who told the Op the biblical Six days of creations translate to 6000years ?
Effects of Religion on Africans is terrifying... Nobody researches or ask questions any more.

We just follow like zombies...
Too bad

Prawn. you could help us with facts not assumptions.and who said the earth is presently perfect?

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