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What's up YouTube Chris Boyer here so real quick. I just wanted to talk just a little bit about

the supposed age of the universe

How old is the universe?

Well

modern

cosmology and

Astrophysics tells us that it's basically 13.8 billion years old

Now, is that true

The short answer to that is that I

Have no earthly idea. I have no clue

what the age of

the universe is

And you don't either because that 14 billion

Age figure is

only holds with with with certain assumptions that

Are unprovable, we just have to simply

Assume certain things in order for the theory to hold

Now with that said

That that doesn't mean that I'm a young earth creationist and I'll say this to the to the young earth creationist who

Honestly, I mean God bless you

But this is not an issue that we need to divide over

Just just period it's not and

Most Christians from from what I can see

Probably do hold to it to a young earth

view I go to a Baptist Church, and I probably would say that most

Of the congregation would also be young earth creationist

But I think that that is wrongheaded because I'm

Perfectly fine with saying I don't know now, why do people seem to think that they do know whether they're believers or unbelievers?

Well, as far as I can tell from the believer perspective is that

They take the Genesis one account in six

literal 24-hour periods and

they count up genealogies and

you know that sort of thing in the age of

the peoples in

those genealogies and they come up with some sort of figure between

Six

We'll say five to seven thousand years old or something like that and that's where they they come up with it there's a few

problems with that I think number one is

That we don't have an unbroken list of genealogies

Adam and Eve

and

then who did they have they had Cain and Abel and

Then who did they have? I think we're told

The only descendants of Adam and Eve from what I can tell is is Cain and Abel and Seth

So clearly Adam and Eve had

More children than that they lived to be

You know a thousand years old or whatever it was

And they had a lot of kids God said be fruitful and multiply so

But we're only told like two or three of the kids that they had

So

where's the rest of them they're just simply not there were only told the ones of

significance

obviously

So we don't have this unbroken

Genealogy

record

As far as the biblical text is concern and it doesn't mean that I'm trying to push an Old Earth

I'm simply trying to say that

The Bible isn't designed to tell us the age of the universe or the age of the earth

It's simply not it's not a science book

It's not a book on cosmology or astrophysics or science or any of that

The Bible was written

For one very specific purpose and that was to make us wise unto salvation and this is not a Salvation issue

It's not even an essential Christian doctrine

I've never went to any church and I would be concerned if I were to discover a church that said

You need to believe that the earth is

6,000 years old or something like that. I've never heard. I've never seen that listed

As an essential doctrine there's a core belief of any Christian denomination and if it were I would be concerned

Most certainly is not the case with with my congregation

So

The Bible just doesn't tell us it simply doesn't tell us I think John Lennox does a good job of of

Explaining this but there's actually four different

usages of the Hebrew word

young for Firday

There's one that

Alludes to less than a 24-hour period there's one that

alludes to a literal 24-hour period and there's obviously one that

Alludes to a period that's greater than 24 hours like for example the seventh day

God rested on the seventh day. So when did God start creating again?

What we're still in the seventh day

So if the seventh day is not to be taken literally then why should we take literal?

That is to say

24-hour periods for the other

Six days of creation that

Doesn't even

to address whether the word yawn can be used as a metaphor like

In the day of the Lord or my day at summoner Academy or or what. Have you

The Bible is not intended to tell us how old the universe is

It's not written to tell us how old the earth is much less the universe

The Bible was written to make us wise unto salvation

period we don't need

To believe in a young earth. We don't need to believe in an Old Earth. We don't need to believe in

Any of that if God wanted us to know?

How old the universe was?

You know, he could have he could have told us

Very easily, I think for example when when Christ was born he could say at the at the time of

Christ's birth

you know the earth was

Four thousand years old or whatever

Didn't do that

Because it's not important

It's

The only reason I say this to the now, I'm not picking on the young earth

creationists per se

Because I don't know how old the universe is. I really quite frankly. I don't even care to be honest

But this isn't an issue that we need to divide over

That because I know that there are some Christians devout Christians very intelligent Christians the would

You know hold the belief in an in an Old Earth and yeah, I'm not saying that I'm one of those persons

but

to say that they're not reading the Bible literally or

They're not really a Christian or they're not

Taking God's words serious or or what have you? I

think is

Is just just really just shameful it's

Unnecessary, this is not an essential issue. We don't need to divide over it

The bible does not tell us how old the universe is nor was it designed to do that?

We want to start reading things into the text

We start interpreting

The

The the six days as literal 24-hour periods

Then we want to look into the

genealogies and

Add up the ages of people and that sort of thing and act like we have some clue about how old the universe is

we don't and

Neither does the unbeliever quite frankly?

There was a time where

Scientists thought the universe was eternal

So who was close for the being right the Christian who said in the beginning God created

Referring to a finite beginning of the universe or the scientist who thought that the universe was eternal

Now they say it's

Fourteen thirteen point eight roughly fourteen billion years

Old

and

You know there they have that with a 99% certainty or something like that. Well then

tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions

Error

Well, what are they gonna do when they find a star that's I

Don't know ten trillion years old

they're

99% just turned into 0.1% The point is they don't know and

Neither do I?

And I really don't care and we shouldn't read the Bible as Christians

We shouldn't read try to read these types of things out of the text. I don't think the Bible

was written

Written to teach us science written to teach us cosmology

You know

Astrophysics or or any of that

So

We don't need to press it for for this this literal interpretation and

Think that we have some clue as to how old the universe is, I think that's the wrong thing to do and we most certainly

Should not be

Dividing over

this issue so

My answer is I have no earthly idea

How old the universe is and I really don't care and you know what?

Neither do you so?

Let's not make this especially on with as far as Christians are concerned

Let's not divide over this issue as far as the unbelievers are concerned

Please don't make this an issue of whether you can be a Christian or not

because this is a this is an in-house debate amongst Christians and

there are

All sorts of Christians who hold to an older earth I

Personally I

don't know I

Really don't care. I only know what God has revealed me revealed to me and

As far as I can tell in Scripture, he has not revealed it. So that's all I had for this one

I'll see you guys in the next one god bless