Never Tell Your Age
My Philosophy
instructor made a statement that the age of the earth was billions of years
old, thus claiming the Bible could not possibly be true, as it puts the age of the
earth at about 10,000 years old. I pondered on this statement frequently,
refusing to allow “intellectualism” to override my faith. Then I awoke at
So I began to
wonder why He would omit this information from the Bible, after all, we human’s
wrap our lives around timelines. When
someone is born and when they die is
written on headstones. Applications for employment have the questions of when we graduated, when we started and stopped past employment, and when we can start. So if God knew we
human’s would be like that, then why would He not give us this information?
The men who
established a chronology used the reign of kings as their guideline, and men
are certainly subject to error. This was done in the 1600’s, with no tools or
modern devices, and I would imagine this required a lot of guesswork.
I again went back
to wonder why God would omit this information. 2
Now let me
paraphrase this loosely for you, “I don’t
give a rip about time!” But why? I feel like a
four year old, why, why, why? I know my column title says that I am an “alleged
expert”, but I really have no idea about this subject, and I do not have the
time to research it. But a satisfying answer popped into my head a couple of
days after I started this quest.
The first day of
History 157, most reverend Excellency,
If I had simply
learned dates of wars, etc., this class would have been extremely boring. But
to learn what caused WWII,
Then I thought
about my faith. I do not need science to prove or disprove it, the
“intellectuals” telling me my faith is false does not make me abandon it, it actually makes it stronger. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith
is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.” I can’t even wrap my mind around that. I
began to wonder why some people have faith and others don’t.
Then my thoughts
went back to the children of
I realized that
faith does not and will not come from the outside in; but must come from the
inside out. My faith is not based on what I can see, no more than their faith
could come from what they could see.
So how old is the
earth? I don’t know. But I do know that my Redeemer lives, I will stand before
Him one day, and it won’t be raining! I also believe that if one sincerely asks God to show Himself, He
will. In
May your faith
increase, your disbelief decrease, and God show Himself to you from the inside
out.
