The January/February 2018 issue of this Newsletter carried the above
article relating to the ages of the patriarchs. We were very pleased to receive
from Arthur Dixon, a three-page commentary on its details. This is too long to
include here but we have posted copies on the bulletin board and made it
available at the following address:
This subject is still “open for discussion”, but a brief summary of
Arthur Dixon’s comments is as follows:—
God created “the heavens and the earth”
in six normal 24-hour days. The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 are exact and
accurate, and do not “skip” any generations. Noah lived contemporaneously with
Abraham for 58 years.
Creation dates calculated by some
famous scientists (e.g., Newton, Kepler) and historians (e.g., Ussher) range
from 3992 BC to 4114 BC. Finally, “the historicity of the physical lines of
descent, from the first Adam to the last Adam, our Lord Jesus Christ, is
fundamental to redemptive history. Without it, we have no kinsman Redeemer, no
substitutionary Atonement, no Saviour.”
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