Noah's age when the flood began?

[steve7150]

In Gen 7.6 it says "Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth." which sounds clear but a few verses later

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's year of Noah's life on the 17th day of the second month on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth and the floodgates of the heavens opened . And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."

If Noah was in his 600th year then his age was 599 not 600 and what difference does it make?

The reason i'm interested in this is because a bible teacher by the name of Harold Camping has developed a bible dating method called the Calendar Patriarch method based on Genesis 5 and 11 and working backwards he comes to Adam's creation at 11,013BC.
A Calendar Patriarch must meet 2 conditions , 1) He must be born in the year the previous patriarch died , 2) He must be directly decended from the previous Calendar Patriarch.
Using this method he dates the flood at 4,990BC and adds 7,000 years and has calculated the end of the world to 2,011 but if Noah was only 599 years old at the flood then 2,012 would be the end if all of Camping's other calculations and assumptions are correct.

I'm not obscessed or worried about any of this but i am curious so if anyone has anything to add , please do.

[darinhouston]

In Gen 7.6 it says "Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth." which sounds clear but a few verses later

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's year of Noah's life on the 17th day of the second month on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth and the floodgates of the heavens opened . And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."

If Noah was in his 600th year then his age was 599 not 600 and what difference does it make?

The reason i'm interested in this is because a bible teacher by the name of Harold Camping has developed a bible dating method called the Calendar Patriarch method based on Genesis 5 and 11 and working backwards he comes to Adam's creation at 11,013BC.
A Calendar Patriarch must meet 2 conditions , 1) He must be born in the year the previous patriarch died , 2) He must be directly decended from the previous Calendar Patriarch.
Using this method he dates the flood at 4,990BC and adds 7,000 years and has calculated the end of the world to 2,011 but if Noah was only 599 years old at the flood then 2,012 would be the end if all of Camping's other calculations and assumptions are correct.

I'm not obscessed or worried about any of this but i am curious so if anyone has anything to add , please do.

Even if he can calculate the "beginning," how does he get to the "end date"?

[steve7150]

Even if he can calculate the "beginning," how does he get to the "end date"?






He adds 7,000 years to the flood date, supposedly 4990 BC but why 7,000 years? I have to find out though i do know he is into numbers having symbolism and 7 is the number of completeness.

[darinhouston]

Even if he can calculate the "beginning," how does he get to the "end date"?

He adds 7,000 years to the flood date, supposedly 4990 BC but why 7,000 years? I have to find out though i do know he is into numbers having symbolism and 7 is the number of completeness.

These guys are all amazing -- I'm listening to a debate between Gary DeMar and Thomas Ice -- DeMar asked Ice to identify any New Testament verse that teaches x, y, and z (dispensational points). Ice said -- "SURE, it's implied by such and such verses." The bad logic of that is only matched by the hubris of his confidence and lack of critical thinking -- it's only implied by his filling in the gaps to make those verses fit his presuppositions. If it weren't so damaging to foreign affairs, etc., it would make good comedy.

[RND]

Gary DeMar and Thomas Ice

Ha! They're both wrong!

The Catholic Origins of Futurism and Preterism



ANTICHRIST IS MOVED EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD IN TIME

Ribera's Futurism Puts the Antichrist Into A Future Three and One-half Literal Years.
Alcazar's Preterism Identifies the Antichrist as Nero.
Both of Them Put Antichrist Outside the Middle Ages and the Reformation Period,
Identified by Protestant Historicists as Antichrist's Reign of 1260 Prophetic Years.