When do Christians believe the world was created?

Answer 1

The Mathematical Tabulation concerning the Year of "Adam's Creation" according to the Account of "Moses" (contained in the First Five Books of the Old Testament) is Absolute: 4004 BC

---Old Testament Study Manual Vol. 1 Latter Day Saint Edition

This Calculation coincides with Bishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656).

His Result: 4004 BC

Note that this Conclusion Occurred During the Renaissance Era & thus, itself, was amidst MANY Forward Thinking Queries.

The First Latter Day Saint Leader, Joseph Smith, also agreed with the Chronology of Moses & went further a step to Calculate the Age of the Universe according to his Understanding.

And the Following Document agrees, from a "Christian" Perspective, by adding: "Today there are many Christians who accept the Reliability of Geologic Dating, but do not compromise the spiritual and historical inerrancy of God's word."

To this, I would like to add: If God's Word were Truly "Inerrant"-- Moses, as a repeater of "God's Words" would have therefore been "Inerrant", and Bishop Ussher's Chronology of Creation, based on his Calculations on the "Word of God through Moses", would have been Held as Admissible Fact in a Court Decision.

In Short, the Stories of ANY Religion are based in Myths cultivated by 200,000 years of Human History.

Answer 2

Yes, the vast majority do, however, how and how long for this event varies significantly. The Bible is quite clear that revelation is from God and without God's gift of His Spirit enlightening us, all sorts of manmade ideas arise via the vast and unique mind of mankind. The Apostle Paul noted this:

1 Corinthians 2:13-15New International Version (NIV)13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

Answer 3

It is more or less universally believed among Christians that God created the world, but there exists a wide range of views as to how this happened. Of course, some believe that God created the world in just six days in the relatively recent past, while others accept the scientific evidence and believe that God guided the natural processes that scientists describe.

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