Date Translator
Generalized Secular Dates Translated into Archbishop James Ussher Dates
Bodie Hodge, Biblical Authority Ministries, July 22, 2020
We are often inundated with secular humanistic dating
schemes. Most news items, textbooks, programs, journals, etc. just state the date
without comment. Many Christians struggle understanding how to convert these
dates to the biblical timescale, where God created all things in 6 normal-length days, then rested on the seventh; then about 1650 years later there was
a global Flood, and then there was a post-Flood Ice Age and with people
migrating about the globe.
How do we translate the dates from one false system (the secular
system) to a biblically based system? Here is a some overview guidelines. There
may be exceptions to this in certain instances of course since this is merely a general overview.
13.8 billion years ago (BYA) in the astronomical heavens is a farce. Outside of the earth (Day 1), water (Day 1), the expanse of space (Day 2), and light (Day 1), which were made on the first two days, all things in the heavens, like stars and planets, were created on Day 4 about 6,000 years ago and the countdown begins (4004 BC).
Now we shift to the earth and events occurring there.
4.6 BYA to 600 million
years ago (MYA) TRANSLATES
to: Creation
which is 4004 BC to 2348 BC
600 MYA to 5 MYA TRANSLATES to: Flood Sediment
~4350 years ago, 2348 BC[1]
5 MYA to 2000 BC TRANSLATES to: Post-Flood
Sediment/Times no older than 2348 BC—if
it involves people away from Babel,
then this is also post-Babel (no
earlier than 2242 BC—the first
recorded death of an old man in Scripture post-Flood was Peleg at 1996 BC; Noah didn’t die until 2006 BC, Shem didn’t die until 2158 BC). Some of which is Ice Age sediment.
Dates from 2000 BC to Present may
only require minor adjusting due to
archaeological errors like the errant Egyptian
Dating, errant Mesopotamian Dating
methods, or the more questionable radiocarbon dating—so be discerning
This should get you dates far closer than the constant errant
preaching from the secular religious adherents.
[1]
Some sediment in the Tertiary is debated as Flood or Post-Flood but since the
Mountains of Ararat are made from Eocene and Miocene sediment, thus they had to
be formed by the 150th Day of the Flood (Genesis 8:3-4). For a
couple of references see: Y. Yilmaz, “Alochthonous Terranes in the Tethyan
Middle East: Anatolia and the Surrounding Regions,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, A 331,
611–624 (1990); G.C. Schmidt, “A Review of Permian and Mesozoic Formations
Exposed Near the Turkey/Iraq Border at Harbol,” Mobil Exploration
Mediterranean, Inc. Ankara, MTA Bulletin
of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute, no. 62, 1964, p.
103–119.
