History Hound Travels

My mother and I were discussing this site over lunch today, and she found my theory of counting history by lifetimes intriguing, and it occurred to me that I might take that a little bit further, while we are reading Adam and His Kin.

I’ve explained that I adhere to the young earth theory, and that will give us about 6,000 years of BC history, and of course about 2000 of AD history, rounding off a bit. That’s about 8,000 years. Given an average lifespan of 75 years, that’s just 106 lifetimes. Now I know that the lifespan has not always been 75 years, and so do you. But Biblical life spans were much longer, and that helps to balance the much shorter life spans during the middle ages.

My point with that is this: 8000 years ago can be hard to grapple with, mentally. 106 lifetimes is much easier to get a handle on, and shows that the course of human history is not as long as we sometimes think. And consider this: Adam had lived almost two of those lifetimes before his first child was born. We’ll get more into this later, but if you find it helpful, I’ll try to add in how many lifetimes ago certain things happened as we study.

I’ll be back here on Wednesday, and we’ll continue with Adam and his Kin

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The first chapter speaks of Creation. It begins with startling simplicity by stating that there was once no time. Each day of Creation is examined, and Beechick draws wonderful word pictures with her words. This book is based in the Bible, and while you can certainly recognize where she gets her inspiration, the added detail is breathtaking. One can almost see God’s smile as He beholds what He has done. The colors in the mind as one “sees” the picture she is painting are richer, deeper, sharper, truer, unfiltered by dust, vivid. The chapter concludes with God declaring the seventh day holy and resting as Adam and Eve begin their honeymoon.

~Are you baffled by the theory of Creation or comforted by it?

Beechick’s book begins with a preface that embraces what is typically called the “young earth” viewpoint, and this is the view point with which I agree as well. Many authors have researched and written about both viewpoints, and even laying issues of faith aside, the young earth explanation just makes sense to me. When I do take matters of faith into account, it makes even more sense. God is a God of order, not disorder. Even the most basic experiments indicate that things tend to fall apart rather than coalesce into greater and more complex things, and so the whole idea of evolution is laughable to me.

Given that this is my viewpoint, it should now be clearer why I chose to begin with Adam and His Kin. It only makes sense to begin at the beginning, does it not?

~What are your views on the actual age of the earth?
~Why do you think as you do?