Hey Mom if God Created us 6,000 Years ago what About Atlantis and Dinosaurs?

What do you tell your children? When you have taught them God Created Heaven and Earth followed by Adam and Eve 6,000 years ago.... and..

When they come home from school they tell you that Atlantis existed about 11,500 years ago according to Plato's writings and dinosaurs walked the Earth first about 231.4 million years ago.

The teacher said the Bible is wrong, is that true? What will you answer them with, the truth according to God's Word, or, wait till your daddy gets home and he'll answer it? Will he have the answer based on God's Word?

Our Current Earth Age and Creation

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The answer is God's Word is true and does not conflict with these school teachings of ancient times. I will show you the answer in Scripture, but for now rest assured that God's Word stands true while we explore these time lines.

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 

In the beginning God

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Archaeologists and science are constantly making new discoveries of old things like cities and cultures from the distant past. Understanding why God's Word does not conflict is important to your faith as well as your child's.

About 2,500 years ago Plato had the following to say regarding Atlantis.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a great island (larger than Libya and Asia combined) in the Atlantic Ocean, but its control extended beyond the 'Pillars of Heracles' into the Mediterranean as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia (Italy). Its powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings arose directly from Poseidon, god of sea and of earthquakes, though this divine and heroic lineage gradually became diluted by mixing with mortal stock.

The resulting degeneration of this noble civilization led it into a war with its former ally, Athens, and culminated in its cataclysmic destruction, which Plato dates as 9,000 years previously. Of the destruction itself, Plato simply notes, 'Some time later there were earthquakes and floods of extraordinary violence, and in a single dreadful day and night all your life [ie, Athenian] fighting men were swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis was similarly swallowed up by the sea and vanished'. (Read More)

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, 231.4 million years ago, and were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, from the beginning of the Jurassic (about 201 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago), when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups at the close of the Mesozoic Era. (Read More)

Notice what Plato states regarding Earths destruction about 11,500 years ago. (In a single day)

 In a single dreadful day and night all your life [ie, Athenian] fighting men were swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis was similarly swallowed up by the sea and vanished'.

The Prophet Jeremiah speaks of a similar destruction in the Book of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. (See Genesis 1:2 above)

24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. (Note: There was no man)

26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger. (Note: a fruitful place and cities)

27 For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. (Note He destroyed it but did make an end of it)

28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 

The destruction Jeremiah sees here is of a prior age before our present creation 6,000 years ago. 

• This destruction leaves the Earth in the exact same condition as stated in Genesis 1:2
• This destruction leaves NO MAN or birds on the Earth
• The fruitful fields were turned into a wilderness
• The cities were destroyed
• And the heavens above were black

Compare this to Noah's flood which occurred during this Creation

• This destruction by the flood leaves 8 people alive (Man on the earth)
• Plus all the animals, birds, and creatures Noah had in the Arc also survived

I believe these are two very different events and so documented by God's Word to alleviate any possible conflict between what Archaeologists find and God's Word.

Based on Jeremiah's report I have no problem or conflict with findings and discoveries being more than 6,000 years old. Pre-Adam earth ages obviously existed, the details of such are not required to live by God's Word and find salvation. 

God is way to big to be put in a box of only 6,000 years. So tell your children there is no conflict based on what God says in the book of Jeremiah.