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Can We Know the Date

of Creation?
Creationists generally believe that God created everything
about 6,000 years ago. When asked for a precise date, they
usually do not give one, but only say that it happened "about
6,000 years ago."
Why can't they give a precise date? Did the Bible neglect
to tell us the exact date of creation? No. The Bible does tell
us the exact date of creation. We just have to calculate it.
Here is the calculation:
1056 years from Adam to Noahs birth (Genesis 5).
600 years from Noahs birth to the Flood (Genesis 7:6)
292 years from the Flood to Abrahams birth (Genesis
11:10-26)
100 years from Abraham to Isaac (Genesis 21:5)
60 years from Isaac to Jacob (Genesis 25:26)
130 years from Jacob to the sojourn in Egypt (Genesis
47:9)
430 years from the sojourn to the Exodus (Exodus
12:40)
480 years from the Exodus to the first temple (1st Kings
6:1)
And finally, King Solomon began to build the temple in
966 BCE. We know this from the corroboration of
Assyrian and Babylonian texts with the Bible.
Wallah, we have a date for creation. Add 'em up and you get
precisely 4114 BCE. But there are problems, and they
concern the earliest origins of the Hebrew nation and the
Bible.
THIS SECTION:
One problem is, if the statement in 1st Kings 6:1 is correct,
GENESIS
that there were 480 years between the Exodus and 966 BCE,
CREATION
then the Exodus happened in 1446 BCE. This is a problem,
STORY IS A
FORGERY
because Palestine was under Egyptian occupation during the
1400's BCE, and into the early 1300's BCE. What sense does
it make to "let my people go" from Egypt, just so they can
migrate to another province within the Egyptian Empire?
Another problem is, archaeology demonstrates that the
Hebrew nation did not even exist in Palestine before the
1200's BCE. As Dever points out, their arrival was marked
by changes in house building, a lack of pig bones, the
disappearance of Canaanite temples, and the appearance of
written Hebrew names, all of which occur about 1200 BCE.
[1] Also, the Egyptian Stele of Merneptah from 1220-1210

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Ancient Lore says the Jerusalem temple

(above) was built with the help of demons.
The Genesis Creation Story was written by
heretic priests of that temple.

Ancient Christians Believed that some parts of

the Bible were written by God and other parts
of the Bible were written by Satan the Devil.

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Above: Marduk, the hero

of Enuma Elish, the
pagan myth from which
Genesis 1 is derived.
Below: Map of Israel and
where different parts of
the Bible came from.

BCE mentions "Israel" by name. So archaeology suggests a

date for the Exodus in the 1200's BCE. But there is little
evidence for the Hebrew invasion that the book of Joshua
describes, and the earliest pottery of the Hebrews looks
Canaanite, which indicates that the Hebrews did not so much
conquer the Canaanites as come from them.[2] This calls
into question the Biblical book of Joshua, which records that
the Israelites accomplished a genocide of the Canaanites. On
the other hand, it supports the Biblical book of Judges, which
records that the Israelites intermingled and lived side-by-side
with the Canaanites for a long time. It is to the book of
Judges, therefore, that we should turn next, because it seems
to be congruent with archaeology.
The chronology of Judges totals 450 years. To get a date
for the Exodus, we must add 40 years for Moses, 30 years for
Joshua, 40 years for David, and perhaps 40 years for Samuel
and Saul. This yields 600 years between the Exodus and the
first temple, in contrast to 1st Kings' 480 years. Thus, the
Bible contradicts itself by roughly 120 years. The Jewish
historian Josephus evidently favored Judges chronology, for
he said that there were 592 years between the Exodus and the
temple.[3] A 2nd century Christian named Theophilus gave a
similar date for the Exodus, 566 years before the temple.[4]
This puts the Exodus in the mid 1500's BCE.
The mid 1500's BCE is indeed a good fit, for it
corresponds to well-known Egyptian history concerning the
expulsion of a Semitic people called the Hyksos. We know
from Egyptian archaeology and from ancient histories that
the Pharaoh of that time was named Ahmose. The 2nd
century Christian philosopher Justin Martyr confirmed that
Ahmose or "Amasis," as he wrote it, was the Pharaoh of the
Exodus.[5] Josephus even tells us explicitly that the Hyksos
were the ancestors of the Israelites.[6] Hence, a strong case
can be made that Biblical recollections of the Exodus should
be identified with the expulsion of the Hyksos.
Yet this raises another problem. As stated above, the
Hebrew nation did not settle in Palestine before the 1200's
BCE. If the Exodus happened 300 years beforehand in the
1550's BCE, then where were the Hebrew people for the
intervening 300 years? Egyptian history records that
nomads in the deserts south of Palestine knew the God
Yahweh during that time.[7] This dovetails with the
comparatively ancient Biblical Song of Deborah, which says
that Yahweh came from "Edom," "Seir," and "Sinai" all
of which are in the deserts south of Palestine.[8] The Bible
apparently remembers this 300 years in the southern deserts
as "40 years in the wilderness."[9] 40 years is hardly 300
years, and so the Biblical chronology seems derived from
fuzzy memories.
Another problem is with the sojourn in Egypt. The Bible
says Israel was in Egypt for 430 years. That opinion is from
the Masoretic Text or "Hebrew Bible." But the Septuagint,
Josephus, and the Samaritan Pentateuch all say the 430 years
includes not only the time in Egypt, but also the time the
patriarchs were in Canaan.[10] Egyptian chronology favors

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this second opinion, because the Hyksos migration to which

Joseph is tied occurred in the 1700's BCE, which is less than
430 years before the Exodus if it happened in the 1550's
BCE. This subtracts 215 years. All totaled, Josephus said
there were 3,102 years between the temple and creation,
which yields a date for creation of 4068 BCE.[11]
Because of these complications, creationists cannot give an
exact date for creation. They can only say creation happened
"about 6,000 years ago," because the Biblical chronology is
so problematic that no precision is possible.
As if that weren't enough, they still have the testimony of
the ancients to contend with. Ancient Christian writings
assert that creation occurred 5,500 years before the time of
Christ.[12] This means creation happened 7,500 years ago.
Hence, when todays creationists claim that the earth was
created about 6,000 years ago, they are actually contradicting
the testimony of the earliest creationists who believed it was
created earlier.
Thus, even if we dismiss science entirely, the Bible
cannot settle its own internal chronological problems well
enough for us to trust a literal interpretation of the creation
account in Genesis 1.
Click to read more about how we know Genesis 1 is a
forgery.
The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by
many ancient Christian texts. Instead of an Almighty
Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the
universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity. The
angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.
There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is
just one among them. Satan the Devil writes scripture, and
thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1. Archaeology and
modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed
corrupted. Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve. Esoteric
prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the
dark forces that govern the cosmos. Such are the ancient
Christian writings.
Science vindicates the truth of these ideas. Evolution often
happens too fast for Darwins theory. Gaps in the fossil
record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts
together with natural selection. Astrobiology reveals that
intelligent life probably evolved long before us. The fossil
record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and
transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse
lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species. Evidently,
aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the
worlds religions.
This is not fiction. All these facts are thoroughly documented
in the links above.

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[1] Dever, William G. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? 2003, William
B Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI, p 75-77, 104-105, 108, 126
[2] Dever, William G. ibid, p 71, 121, 139, 146
[3] Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews 8.3.1
[4] Theophilus. Theophilus to Autolycus 3.21-22
[5] Justin Martyr. Discourse to the Greeks 9
[6] Josephus. Against Apion 1.14-15
[7] Dever, William G. Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? 2003, William
B Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI, p 128, 150
[8] Judges 5:4-5, Deuteronomy 33:2, Psalm 68:17, Habakkuk 3:3
[9] Numbers 14:33-34, 32:13, Deuteronomy 8:2-4, 29:5
[10] Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews 2.15.2; LXX and SP Exodus 12:40
[11] Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews 8.3.1
[12] Bercot, David. A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs. 1998, Hendrickson Publishers. Peabody,
MA, p. 144

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