(The topic of the “dinosaur age,” naturally, is another matter.) According to the current, traditionally used Hebrew calendar, which is figured from creation, we have just started the year 5783.
How do we know which year it is on the biblical Hebrew calendar?Īsk many creationists, and they’ll say that Adam was created roughly 6,000 years ago.
Yet while the Bible gives detailed instructions on how to count months and days, it doesn’t specify how to count years. (As headlined by a Haaretz article some years ago, the calendar can be characterized as “A Marvel of Ancient Astronomy and Math.”) It is a combined luni-solar calendar, meaning that it relies on the movements of both the sun and the moon (unlike the solar Gregorian calendar or the lunar Islamic calendar). The Hebrew calendar is unique in that it is ancient, yet highly advanced and exact. Divine and detailed biblical instructions are given for determining months and precisely pinpointing dates, especially for the holy days. The Hebrew calendar is extremely regulated and accurate.
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