Years ago a priest added up all the time spans given in the Bible and put together a timeline of 6000 years. He guessed at most of it.
Yeah, and Ham and all these others that have researched everything else so carefully just accepted his “guess” and didn’t do their own examination because they are so lazy.
Hey, you don’t need a priest to add up the time span from Adam. It takes some digging, but it’s all there in the Bible. Start with the genealogy of Adam in Genesis 5 (about 1000 years from Adam to Noah’s flood).
>> “Years ago a priest added up all the time spans given in the Bible and put together a timeline of 6000 years. He guessed at most of it” <<
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No, there was no guess work to it. It is based on careful scholarship, studying the genealogies and the exceptions to the genealogies that are in the Prophets, to cover the stated gaps in the genealogies.
It took Usher several years of work to develop his calculations.