As a preliminary statement, I would like to say that I think old vs. new earth is a fruitless debate that has sidetracked much of evangelicalism from other doctrines (like the infallibility of Scripture) that are far more important. In short, I don’t think there is enough data in the bible to make a conclusion one way or the other based on Biblical data alone. I don’t think the age of the earth is something the Bible was intended to answer and I think asking that question of it is an effort in futility at best.
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In my research on Scripture, which included listening to several hours of lectures by Dr. Wayne Grudem (one of the translators for the ESV), I ran across the old reformation doctrine of the perspecuity of scripture which, in a nutshell, simply states that the Scriptures are written so that anyone can understand them. Not that they are nesicarialy easy to understand, but that they are able to be understood by anyone so that special interperters (such as a priest) and hidden meaning (such as numerology and “I feel this means”ism) are equally wrong.
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