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Earth age opinions of prominent Christians - pre-1800 (view source)
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They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed.
They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed.
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=== Venerable Bede, De Temporum Ratione, "On the Reckoning of Time" ===
Dates the creation at 3952 years before Christ
=== Georgius Syncellus, Chronography ===
=== Georgius Syncellus, Chronography ===
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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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=== John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol 1, 14 <ref>http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iii.xv.html</ref>===
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Hence God was pleased that a history of the creation should exist—a history on which the faith of the Church might lean without seeking any other God than Him whom Moses sets forth as the Creator and Architect of the world. First, in that history, the period of time is marked so as to enable the faithful to ascend by an unbroken succession of years to the first origin of their race and of all things. This knowledge is of the highest use not only as an antidote to the monstrous fables which anciently prevailed both in Egypt and the other regions of the world, but also as a means of giving a clearer manifestation of the eternity of God as contrasted with the birth of creation, and thereby inspiring us with higher admiration. We must not be moved by the profane jeer, that it is strange how it did not sooner occur to the Deity to create the heavens and the earth, instead of idly allowing an infinite period to pass away, during which thousands of generations might have existed, while the present world is drawing to a close before it has completed its six thousandth year.
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