-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Boyd <6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>Hi,
>
>"John W. Rea" <matziq@airmail.net> wrote:
>> 4000 and 2 bc? where did you get this number?
>
>"Heaven and earth, centre and circumference, were created together,
>in the same instant, and clouds full of water... this work took place
>and man was created by the Trinity on the twenty-third of October,
>4004 B.C., at nine o'clock in the morning."
> -- John Lightfoot (Vice-Chancellor of the
> University of Cambridge), 1859
>
>I've seen everything from 4000 to 6000 BCE cited as the date of creation.
>
>But here, I quote the editor of Skeptical Review, Farrell Till:
>
>"Editor's Note: According to ages given in the patriarchal
>genealogies of Genesis 5 , there were 1,656 years from the
>time of Adam's creation to Noah's flood. The postdiluvian
>genealogies of Genesis 11 list 297 years from the flood to
>the birth of Abraham, who was 100 years old when Isaac was
>born (Gen. 21:5 ). Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob wasborn
>(Gen. 25:26 ), and Jacob was 130 years old when Joseph presented
>him to Pharaoh shortly after the Israelite migration into Egypt
>(Gen. 47:9 ). Hence, 2,243 years passed from Adam to the descent
>into Egypt. The Israelites sojourned in Egypt 430 years (Exodus
>12:40 ), and Solomon, in the fourth year of his reign, began to
>build the Temple 480 years after the Israelite exodus (1 Kings 6:1).
>Therefore, the Bible's own chronology teaches that 3,153 years
>transpired from Adam to the fourth year of Solomon's reign, when
>construction on the temple began. Bible chronologists assign
>930 B.C. as the year of Solomon's death (see SOLOMON, Eerdmans
>Bible Dictionary, 1987, p. 959). Since Solomon reigned for 40 years
>(2 Chron. 9:30 ), construction on the temple would have begun 36
>years earlier in 966B.C.E., so if the 966 years that separated
>the fourth year of Solomon's reign from the birth ofJesus are
>added to the above 3,153 years, we have only 4,119 years. Since
>Jesus was about 33 when he was allegedly crucified, we see that
>Bible chronology allows for only 4,152 years from Adam to the
>crucifixion." --
>http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1994/4/4devol94.html
>
>If you are very interested, I recommend
>
>The Seven Thousand Years of Recorded Time
>http://www.cynet.com/Jesus/timeline.htm
>
>(sorry to those who have seen this before)
>
>ERiC
>