His age was 930 from his creation to his death. The fall occurred at some point during this 930 years, between his creation and when Seth was born when Adam was age 130 (and certainly some significant time before that, because Cain and Able were grown and had their own profession (and Cain killed Able) before Seth was born).
If it’s his age after the fall. And using his age determines the age f the earth. We will be missing an unknown number of years.
Your sure of this?
I highly doubt that.
If you’re looking for literal years. It would be true
No, it is 5785 years according to the Hebrew calendar.
not so much. The ancient sages and Rabbis will suffice.
I think Setterfield is in his 80s. That is pretty ancient. It is worth consideration since any interpreter is simply reconstituting the missing details. His analysis shows that various generations were removed from the lineage history and thus from the count of years. I got interested in the age of the earth reflected especially from Genesis with all the ages and age when the offspring was born. I added it up last millennium
Sure. that view can seem rather yecky until we have some alternative view that makes sense. In weakness we are made strong through Christ.
I see too many conflicts with scripture in suggesting an old earth model. It seems unlikely to find some sort of representative Adam as the common ancestor of humanity. There are problems trying to identify some metaphor meaning of items mentioned in Genesis 1-3 if the text is not more direct. This is not to exclude that some metaphor is involved but just to exclude some reassignment, for example, to ages. That discussion however is not the topic of the thread.
The Setterfield chronology puts the Exodus at 1585 +/- 6 BC. He uses some info from the Septuagint and some from the Masoretic text if memory serves.
what did you think of Setterfield's chronology? If you get the Exodus date wrong, then Jericho fell before Israelites got there. Also, the chronology before Exodus will be determined incorrectly.
