Do you believe the OT "timeline" to be accurate?

[Indy Coug]

Meaning, do you believe in the traditional dates assigned to

• Adam's eviction from Eden
• Enoch
• Noah
• Abraham
• Moses

and so forth?

[Solon]

Meaning, do you believe in the traditional dates assigned to

• Adam's eviction from Eden
• Enoch
• Noah
• Abraham
• Moses

and so forth?

Do this question mean, "Do you believe Adam and Eve lived in about 4,000 BC, and then so on?

[SeattleUte]

I can answer this one.

[Indy Coug]

Do this question mean, "Do you believe Adam and Eve lived in about 4,000 BC, and then so on?

Correct. The relatively standardized timeline dating back a few centuries that established Adam as beginning around 4,004 BC.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm

[TripletDaddy]

I always get hung up on the wording of the options.

Your question asks about timeline yet some of your choices go to the non-existence or literalism of the "characters" in the OT. Are you revealing some bias in your line of questioning or did you simply ask the wrong question?

[byu71]

I can't believe I am the only one with no opinion. I guess I don't care enough about it to have an opinion.

[Indy Coug]

I always get hung up on the wording of the options.

Your question asks about timeline yet some of your choices go to the non-existence or literalism of the "characters" in the OT. Are you revealing some bias in your line of questioning or did you simply ask the wrong question?

One of the options is "no" on the basis that the timeline is predicated upon people that never existed.

[TripletDaddy]

I can't believe I am the only one with no opinion. I guess I don't care enough about it to have an opinion.

Test: are you ambivalent or indifferent?

[falafel]

Are we talking about the timeline, or are we talking about the people? This polls seems like it should really be asking "what, if any, opinion do you have about the literal nature of the OT?" and then several options are given.

Also, what does length of one's life have to do with whether the time line is correct? As an aside, assuming Methuselah was a real person, I'd like to know what happened to cause the OT to have a reference to him living 969 years. In other words, I don't believe that anyone actually lived that long. People lived shorter lives in antiquity, not longer.

[Indy Coug]

Also, what does length of one's life have to do with whether the time line is correct?

The timeline was reverse engineered based on the reported ages of the Patriarchs.

Maybe it was the collective inbreeding of the first few generations that resulted in increasingly shorter lifespans.

[falafel]

The timeline was reverse engineered based on the reported ages of the Patriarchs.

Maybe it was the collective inbreeding of the first few generations that resulted in increasingly shorter lifespans.

Thanks. In that case, no way do I believe the time line.