The bible says Methezula lived to the ripe old age of 969 years old. Noah lived 950 years. Adam, the spring chicken of the three, only made it to 930 years old. Do you believe these alleged biblical individuals actually lived this long, or is this another of those metaphorical biblical claims that is open to interpretation and speculation ?
As fictional heroes and legends of antiquity, the redactors of the biblical narrative, in attempts to forge a national religious identity in the face of possible assimilation, had to assign them supernatural ages, otherwise the time lines wouldn’t make sense. The narrative even asserts that God would only allow humans to live no more than 120 years after the flood (which as we can see is complete BS), even though the subsequent biblical Abraham character was written to have lived until 175.
In a nutshell… humans have never lived to be 900 years old; that is just ancient Near East mythology.
OM
The bible says Methezula lived to the ripe old age of 969 years old. Noah lived 950 years. Adam, the spring chicken of the three, only made it to 930 years old. Do you believe these alleged biblical individuals actually lived this long, or is this another of those metaphorical biblical claims that is open to interpretation and speculation ?
Did They Really Live That Long?
According to the Bible, Adam lived for 930 years, Seth for 912, and Methuselah for 969—just 31 years short of a thousand! (Genesis 5:5, 8, 27) Were those years similar in length to ours today, or were they shorter periods, perhaps equivalent to our months, as some have suggested?
The internal evidence in the Bible points to literal years similar in length to ours. Consider: Had the ancient year been only as long as our month, the following men would have become fathers at an impossibly early age: Kenan before he was six years old, and Mahalalel and Enoch just over the age of five.—Genesis 5:12, 15, 21.
Moreover, the ancients distinguished between days, months, and years. (Genesis 1:14-16; 8:13) In fact, Noah’s detailed chronology helps us to determine the length of a month. A comparison of Genesis 7:11, 24 and Genesis 8:3, 4 shows that five months—from the 17th day of the second month to the 17th day of the seventh month—equaled 150 days. Evidently, then, Noah employed a 30-day month, 12 of which added up to a year.—Genesis 8:5-13.*
But how could people live for 900 years or more? The Bible tells us that God made humans to live forever and that Adam’s sin brought imperfection and death to the human family. (Genesis 2:17; 3:17-19; Romans 5:12) Those who lived before the Flood were much closer to perfection than we are today, and this was no doubt a major factor in their longevity. Methuselah, for instance, was only seven generations removed from Adam.—Luke 3:37, 38.
Soon, however, Jehovah God will eliminate every trace of Adamic sin from all who exercise faith in the shed blood of his Son, Jesus Christ. “The wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Yes, the time is coming when Methuselah’s 969 years will seem very short indeed!
I believe these people actually lived that long...
How long ago was this exactly? How many years?
From Adam’s creation to the Flood. The 1,656 years of this period are set out in Genesis 5:1-29; 7:6, and they may be outlined as shown in the chart at the lower right.
From Adam’s creation to the birth of Seth
130 years
Then to the birth of Enosh
105 years
To the birth of Kenan
90 years
To the birth of Mahalalel
70 years
To the birth of Jared
65 years
To the birth of Enoch
162 years
To the birth of Methuselah
65 years
To the birth of Lamech
187 years
To the birth of Noah
182 years
To the Flood
600 years
Total
1,656 years
The figures shown for the pre-Flood period are those found in the Masoretic text, on which modern translations of the Hebrew Scriptures are based. These figures differ from those found in the Greek Septuagint, but the evidence for accuracy clearly favors the Masoretic text.
No.
I mean, today is 18th January, 2019.
How long ago was Adam alive? From today?
According to Bible chronology, about 6044 years ago...
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And your response to this
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...side-africa-just-discovered-israel-180967952/
would be???
And your response to this
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...side-africa-just-discovered-israel-180967952/
would be???
I believe Jehovah God's Word over man's...man has proven time and time again he is fallible...God is not...
"The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring strength.
The reminder of Jehovah is trustworthy, making the inexperienced one wise." Psalm 19:7
MEN wrote the bible.
MEN edited and revised the Bible. Over and over again.
The bible was NOT written by god.
God is not an author.
I believe Jehovah God's Word over man's...man has proven time and time again he is fallible...God is not...
"The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring strength.
The reminder of Jehovah is trustworthy, making the inexperienced one wise." Psalm 19:7
A tad circular. Man claims that God inspired the Bible. How do we know this for certain? Because the Bible says so. Why should we believe that? Because the Bible is infallible. How do we know that it is infallible? Because the Bible is the Word of God.
All of this - according to men - whom you've candidly admitted... are fallible.
OM
Correction...40 spiritually inspired men over a span of 1500+ years were all in agreement...that is in no way a circular argument...
Not entirely "in agreement"; only so much as later redactors could manage when the myriad folk tales and oral traditions had finally been reduced to writing.
Still... you yourself said that man was fallible. If you think that different people can't subscribe to the same ideology, then how precisely did Jim Jones manage to get 900 individuals to drink that Kool-Aid?
OM
The bible says Methezula lived to the ripe old age of 969 years old. Noah lived 950 years. Adam, the spring chicken of the three, only made it to 930 years old. Do you believe these alleged biblical individuals actually lived this long, or is this another of those metaphorical biblical claims that is open to interpretation and speculation ?
Did you miss the spiritually inspired part? God's holy spirit can accomplish anything...or the part about 1500+ years?
It had to do with traveling at the speed of light, I think.
Correction...40 spiritually inspired men over a span of 1500+ years were all in agreement...that is in no way a circular argument...
Except when they disagreed with each other, of course.
If you are referring to the gospel accounts, eyewitness accounts are never identical...
According to Bible chronology, about 6044 years ago...
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