-Removed-It stems from a scripture (I paraphrase) "that day of God's time is as a thousand years" so on that basis 6 days to create the earth = 6,000 years.
Having said that I have bumped into (cant find where right now) stuff that suggests that a "creative day" is 7,000 years, putting the creation at 42,000 years not 6,000.
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@medullah saidI believe if you start adding the years' people were alive and events in scripture, it works out to about some total in the thousands. There are Biblical timeline charts; it should be easy to look up.
It stems from a scripture (I paraphrase) "that day of God's time is as a thousand years" so on that basis 6 days to create the earth = 6,000 years.
Having said that I have bumped into (cant find where right now) stuff that suggests that a "creative day" is 7,000 years, putting the creation at 42,000 years not 6,000.