Jesus was a young earth creationist

IntroThis debate is solely about whether or not Jesus was a young earth creationist. I am arguing that when spreading his Gospel, he taught this doctrine. Now, as Jesus' ministry was only for the "lost sheep of Israel" (Matthew 15:24), then it becomes important to understand early Jewish thought, and how early Christians understood his message.Early Jewish and Christian ThoughtJoesephus: "Now Adam, who was the first man, and made out of the earth" (1)Passages from the Talmud: R. Kattina said: Six thousand years shall the world exist, and one [thousand, the seventh], it shall be desolate, as it is written, And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.Abaye said: it will be desolate two [thousand], as it is said, After two days will he revive us: in the third day, he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. It has been taught in accordance with R. Kattina: Just as the seventh year is one year of release in seven, so is the world: one thousand years out of seven shall be fallow, as it is written, And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day,' and it is further said, A Psalm and song for the Sabbath day,meaning the day that is altogether Sabbath and it is also said, For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past. The Tanna debe Eliyyahu teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand there was desolation;two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years is the Messianic era. (2) Early Christians Writings:Barnabas: “Now what is said at the very beginning of Creation about the Sabbath, is this: In six days God created the works of his hands, and finished them on the seventh day; and he rested on that day, and sanctified it. Notice particularly, my children, the significance of ‘he finished them in six days.’ What that means is, that He is going to bring the world to an end in six thousand years, since with Him one day means a thousand years; witness His own saying, ‘Behold, a day of the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, my children, in six days – six thousand years, that is – there is going to be an end of everything.” (3)Scriptures on the literal Genesis AccountBiblical Importance:"Six days you shall labor and do all your work,but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day" (Exodus 20:9-11)Luke lists a genealogy from Adam to Jesus. (Luke, 3: 23-38)I have shown that Scripture teaches that Adam is the first man, that an early Jew confirmed that Jewish thought believed that Adam was the first man, and that early Jewish and Christian thought also confirmed a belief in a 6000 year old earth, where the Messiah comes in the 7th millenium to bring in the Golden Age. Also, Scriptures give chronologies, starting with Adam, all the way up to Jesus. If one calulates these numbers, one must arrive at 4000 years from Adam to Jesus (4).Up to this point, Con can reject all of this information and argue that Jesus opposed the traditional Jewish thought and the chonology of Scriptures, as this debate is about Jesus' views. However, I argue that Jesus only affirms these ideas and never contradicts Scripture. Should Con disagree, he must show evidence of Jesus contradicting Scripture.Jesus on GenesisNow, the bulk of the matter; the quotes of Jesus about Creation:"So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the prophets killed since the creation of the world, from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the alter and the holy place" (Luke 11:50-51)Jesus puts the first muder with Abel. If the Theory of Evolution be true, and there be millions of years before Adam and Abel (who has already been dated at 4000 years before Jesus), then there was murder before Abel. Jesus could not have believed in billions of years."But in the beginning, at the time of creation, it was said, 'God made them male and female'" (Mark 10:6)Jesus links the beginning of Creation with the beginning of Adam and Eve. If Jesus believed in the Theory of Evolution, he would be saying that the beginning (which was almost 14 billion years ago according to the Evolutionary theory) was when humans were created. This only works under a Young earth creationist perspective."But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 'For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark." (Matt 24:37-38)When Jesus comes, the whole world will bow down to him. If his arrival will be like the flood of Noah, then so also was the whole world subject to the flood. This fits under a Young Earth Creation paradigm, but not to an Evolutionary perspective, as that theory rejects a global flood 4400 years ago.ConclusionJesus could not have believed in an Old Earth. He was a descendant of Adam. Adam was the one who brought death into the world. If there was death before Adam, there was no need of a Savior, and Jesus' death was meaningless.I look forward to your arguments, Con.(1) http://www.sacred-texts.com...(2) http://www.come-and-hear.com...(3) http://edinburghcreationgroup.org...(4) http://www.hebroots.org...