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Earth age opinions of prominent Christians - pre-1800 (view source)
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...on this same holy day of the life-giving resurrection, the 5534th year from the creation of the universe commenced.
...on this same holy day of the life-giving resurrection, the 5534th year from the creation of the universe commenced.
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===Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis===
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We know from Moses that the world was not in existence before 6,000 years ago.<ref>Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis, in Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 1958), 1:ix, 3.</ref>
Therefore, as the proverb has it, he calls “a spade a spade,” i.e., he employs the terms “day” and “evening” without allegory, just as we customarily do. . . . Moses spoke in the literal sense, not allegorically or figuratively, i.e., that the world, with all its creatures, was created within six days, as the words read. If we do not comprehend the reason for this, let us remain pupils and leave the job of teacher to the Holy Spirit.<ref>Luther, Lectures on Genesis, in Works, 1:5. See also John A. Maxfield, Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2008), p. 41.</ref>
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Luther also calculated the age of the Earth to be 5,500 years in 1540.<ref>Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546 (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1993), p. 138.</ref>
=== John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol 1, 14 ===
=== John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol 1, 14 ===