If there real then how come people lived over 200 years from the bible and nobody's ever lived that long on earth?
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because there was a vapor canopy covering the earth, therefore making it possible for people to live longer because they had not as much radiation from the sun... (it was blocked by the vapor canopy). during the flood, the vapor canopy rained down on the earth, and the water cycle was started. therefore, there was no mention of stars until after the flood (first mention during Abraham's time), and humans now live shorter lives because of radiation destroying their bodies. make any sense?
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It's all guess work.\n\nTime did not exist until flesh man was created.\n\nConsider some scientific estimates or guesses. Not all scientists are going to agree. The Universe or heavens 20 billion years old. The Earth 4.6 billion years old. The Moon 200 to 300 million years younger than the Earth. Dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. The Ice Age 2.5 million years ago. Oldest evidence of flesh man 7000 to 14000 years old.
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This question has been asked for hundreds of years since the beginning of recorded history.  No earthling knows the answer.  My theory follows, but it is long and you must read it with an open mind to radical concepts... \n\n\n “WHAT IF” \n\nFIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CANNOT ATTEND A CONVENTIONAL CHURCH WITHOUT BEING HYPOCRITICAL, BUT I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN GOD, JESUS, PRAYER, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND BASIC CHRISTIANITY.  ALSO, IN IT’S UNALTERED AND ORIGINAL FORM, THE BIBLE WAS PROBABLY A MUCH MORE ACCURATE, THOUGH SIMPLISTIC, DOCUMENT THAN EXISTS TODAY.\n\nHOWEVER, IT IS MY OPINION, THAT THROUGH THE SEVERAL DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS, REVISIONS, VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF BIBLICAL INFORMATION BY PERSONS WHO WERE IGNORANT TO MODERN SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNOLOGY, THE TRUE MEANINGS AND ACCURATE INTERPRETATION OF THE EVENTS RECORDED ORIGINALLY HAVE BEEN LOST.  TO ME, THE BIBLE WAS INTENDED TO BE AN HISTORICAL DIARY OF A TRULY REMARKABLE VISIT AND A SERIES OF PROFOUND EVENTS THAT DID IN FACT OCCUR.  IT IS SAD THAT MAN WAS NOT AT THE TIME, INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE OF ACCURATELY COMPREHENDING AND RECORDING WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAW.  BECAUSE OF THIS, MANS EARLY, AND ONGOING, INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE HAS TAKEN MANY AVENUES OF APPROACH, AND IN PRESENT REALITY, APPEARS TO ME TO HAVE BEEN INITIALLY BASED ON NAIVE CONJECTURE STIMULATED BY DIRECT EXPOSURE TO SEVERAL INSTANCES OF PROFOUND AND UNEXPLAINABLE PHENOMENON THAT OCCURRED BEFORE A MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITIES WAS DEVELOPED.  HOWEVER, AS ONE LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF MAJOR RELIGIOUS FACTIONS, IT IS APPARENT THAT ALTHOUGH THE INTERPRETATION AND FOLLOWING OF THIS DOCTRINE WAS GREATLY VARIED, THERE WERE SOME ABSOLUTES THAT DID NOT CHANGE. \n\nSOME EXAMPLES ARE: ONE SUPREME BEING OR ENTITY SUCH AS GOD, BUDDHA, MOHAMMED, AND THE GREAT SPIRIT.  ALSO, THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, GOOD AND EVIL, AND RULES THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED TO THE BEST OF ONES ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE TO THE HIGHER LEVEL OF EXISTENCE AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH. \n\nTODAY, WE KNOW THAT THE UNIVERSE IS IMMENSE.  WE ALSO KNOW THAT GALAXIES WITHIN OUR UNIVERSE GO ON AND ON, AND THERE ARE PROBABLY MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF THEM IN EXISTENCE.  MOST OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBERS OF STARS. (WHICH ARE SUNS)  SOME OF THESE STARS ARE HUGE.  OTHERS ARE TINY.  SOME ARE VERY NEW AND SOME ARE EXTREMELY ANCIENT.  SOME HAVE BURNED OUT, COLLAPSED UPON THEMSELVES, AND HAVE BECOME "BLACK HOLES IN SPACE, WHILE OTHERS HAVE EXPLODED IN SUPER-NOVA.  BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, SOME ARE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE UNIFORMITY AND CONSISTENCY OF OUR SUN.  THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, THERE ARE PROBABLY TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF STARS THAT ARE VERY MUCH THE SAME AS OUR SUN.  IF ONE BELIEVES IN EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENT LIFE, ONE CANNOT LOOK INTO A CLEAR NIGHT SKY WITHOUT FEELING EXTREMELY HUMBLED AND INSIGNIFICANT.  IT IS MY BELIEF THAT WE ARE MOST CERTAINLY, NOT THE ONLY RELIGIOUS AND INTELLIGENT LIFE IN OUR UNIVERSE.\n\n   WHAT IF: \n\nALL INTELLIGENT LIFE IS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE NO MATTER WHAT PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION IT HAPPENS TO BE IN. \n\n\n\nWHAT IF: \n\n"GOD”, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS, ELECTED TO ESTABLISH INTELLIGENT LIFE ON A FEW OF THOSE PLANETS AS HE DID HERE ON EARTH? \n\nWHAT IF: \n\nCREATION AND EVOLUTION ARE THE SAME.  THE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR DAY IS MANS EARTHLY CONCEPT OF TIME BECAUSE IT FITS THE PHYSICS OF EARTH’S ROTATION IN ORBIT AROUND THE SUN, AND THE SPINNING OF THE PLANET ON IT’S AXIS. \n\nWHAT IF: \n\nONE OF GOD' S DAYS EQUALS A BILLION OR SO OF OUR YEARS?  TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE, COMPARE A SINGLE ATOM TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THEN COMPARE THE AVERAGE TIME REQUIRED FOR THE ELECTRONS (PLANETS) TO ORBlT AROUND THE NUCLEUS (SUN) AND THEN THINK OF THE SIZE/TIME RELATIONSHIP COMPARING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM TO THAT ATOM.  THEN COMPARE OUR TINY SOLAR SYSTEM, AS AN ATOM, TO THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE.  SURELY, UNIVERSAL TI
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Good question! I had the same question as a child! I'm one for research, and never take an answer unless I can verify it to be true (to the extent I can!)\n\nFinding the True Sense of Biblical Passages\n\nGalileo believed the Bible to be true. When his scientific discoveries contradicted the prevailing interpretation of certain Bible verses, he reasoned that theologians were missing the true sense of the passages. After all, “two truths can never contradict one another,” he wrote.4 He suggested that the precise terms of science do not contradict the everyday words of the Bible. But theologians would not let themselves be persuaded. They insisted that all Biblical statements about the earth are to be taken literally. As a result, not only did they reject Galileo’s discoveries but they also missed the true sense of such Scriptural expressions.\n\nReally, common sense should tell us that when the Bible refers to “the four corners of the earth,” it does not mean that the Bible writers understood the earth to be literally square. (Revelation 7:1) The Bible is written in the language of ordinary people, often using vivid figures of speech. So when it speaks of the earth as having “four corners,” a durable “foundation,” “pedestals,” and a “cornerstone,” the Bible is not offering a scientific description of the earth; obviously it is speaking metaphorically, as we often do in daily speech.—Isaiah 51:13; Job 38:6.\n\nIn his book Galileo Galilei, biographer L. Geymonat noted: “Narrow-minded theologians who wanted to limit science on the basis of biblical reasoning would do nothing but cast discredit upon the Bible itself.”5 That they did. Actually, it was the theologians’ interpretation of the Bible—not the Bible itself—that put unreasonable constraints on science.\n\nSimilarly, religious fundamentalists today distort the Bible when they insist that the earth was created in six 24-hour days. (Genesis 1:3-31) Such a view agrees neither with science nor with the Bible. In the Bible, as in everyday speech, the word “day” is a flexible term, expressing units of time of varying lengths. At Genesis 2:4, all six creative days are referred to as one all-embracing “day.” The Hebrew word translated “day” in the Bible can simply mean “a long time.”6 So, there is no Biblical reason to insist that the days of creation were 24 hours each. By teaching otherwise, fundamentalists misrepresent the Bible.—See also 2 Peter 3:8.\n\nThroughout history, theologians have often distorted the Bible. \n\nMisrepresented by Religion\n\nThe actions of those who say they follow the Bible often besmear the reputation of the book they claim to revere. So-called Christians have shed one another’s blood in the name of God. Yet, the Bible admonishes followers of Christ to “love one another.”—John 13:34, 35; Matthew 26:52.\n\nSome clergymen fleece their flocks, wheedling hard-earned money from them—a far cry from the Scriptural instruction: “You received free, give free.”—Matthew 10:8; 1 Peter 5:2, 3.\n\nClearly, the Bible cannot be judged according to the words and actions of those who simply quote it or claim to live by it. An open-minded person may therefore want to discover for himself what the Bible is all about and why it is such a remarkable book.
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Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years. By the time Cain and Abel took wives there were sisters, cousins and second cousins all over the place. Remember, there was no TV yet.
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life on other planet would not mean they should be all humans. don't forget on our little planet there are 1000s of different living creatures, they are not all human. therefor there might be life on other planets in different shapes and different creatures, that would not mean there was some other God who created them.\nThe Bible says god created the heavens and earth. it doesn't say if God created or didn't create any creature elsewhere.\nthe bible was sent to us earthly human to learn about God and how to worship Him. There was no point to intriduce other worlds to the ancient humans because of their lack of understanding.\nour understanding of how to interpret the bible changes through time and history.\nThe early church thought of science as anti-religion. and they thought the earth is the center of the universe, even though the bible doesn't say that, it was implied that God will create the earth and give it so much attention only to make it the center of everything. But as we learn more things about the universe we read the bible and see there is nothing in the bible that contradict it. so if one day we discovered life some other place, there is nothing in the bible that says that should or could not happen. it is only our understanding now that assumes God created only living creatues on earth..
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I like your spirit. Keep it up!!\n\nAfter reading a few of the answers I can't help but break out in laughter. Is this 2006? or is it before Renaissance?\nMight I mention a few things: radio carbon dating, cosmic background radiation, speed of light, distance of some galaxies from us, the time to form heavy elements from hydrogen, half life of uranium...\nI think any one of these things will prove the age of the earth. Incidentally, the Hindu scriptures, Vedas are about 6000 years old. The last ice age ended 13000 years ago...\n\nI can't believe these same people boast about space travel. LMFAO.\n\nIncidentally for the person who said something about matter and energy. No matter and energy can't be created or destroyed. Matter and energy are actually the same thing in different forms. One is a more stable form, the other is a transient form.\n\nAnd the person who said the Bible is the truth. Well the bible didn't arrive by fax from heaven. It was written by men. The laws of physics, on the other hand, was written by God. Scientists merely discover them.
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We're made in the spiritual image of God, but that doesn't mean we ARE God; we make mistakes.  The Bible does have some internal inconsistancies, but it's also about 4000 years old.  You can't expect a story to be reproduced perfectly all throughout that time.  And I don't think it really matters anyway, since the creation story is more meant to be a parable than a factual history.  The message is more important than the individual details.
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bigvol is correct, it was methuselah, who lived to be 969 actual years old. however, his daddy didn't die, he was Enoch and went to heaven at the young age (at his time) of 365 years. Those are actual years. People lived longer just after creation.
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http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/ba9712bp.htm\n\nCheck out the link above. What I have come to believe like many others from studying the subject of bronze age natural disastors is that often stories and myths tie very well with geological events, such as tsunamis (parting of the sea for moeses and the jews) earthquakes etc. Stories in the bible can be traced back to earlier myths which existed before the bible was written. I would not beleive hat the bible describes word for word as throught he ages, stories have been altered to provide an exaggerated picture of true events to capture the imagination of the reader/pupil. How many times have you exaggerated a story just so it sounds better to the listner? Now apply 2000years to that and you know what I mean. Anyway the above link is an interesting read.
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Yes the Bible does have wonderful historical facts and events. But these are things that actually happened. The Bible foretold things 200 years before they ever happened. The Bible is a guide for us and how to live our lives so that we can have everlasting happiness. The Bible is the word of God, his thoughts, his teachings, and his aid to us to guide us through life.
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.
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Man’s situation does not compare with that of the Creator, who does not reside within our solar system and who is not affected by its various cycles and orbits. Of God, who is from time indefinite to time indefinite, the psalmist says: “For a thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch during the night.” (Ps 90:2, 4) Correspondingly, the apostle Peter writes that “one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8)\n\n For man, a 1,000-year period represents some 365,242 individual time units of day and night, but to the Creator it can be just one unbroken time period in which he begins the carrying out of some purposeful activity and brings it on to its successful conclusion, much as a man begins a task in the morning and concludes it by the day’s end.\n\nJehovah is the Originator of our universe in which time, space, motion, mass, and energy have all been proved to be inescapably interrelated. He controls them all according to his purpose, and in dealing with his creatures on earth he makes definite time appointments for his own actions toward them, right down to the “day and hour.” (Mt 24:36; Ga 4:4) He keeps such appointments with the utmost punctuality.\n\nIn the first century, there were some who apparently felt that God should have fulfilled his promises sooner. They had become so impatient that they even considered God to be slow or late. On this account, the apostle Peter had to remind them that God’s view of time is quite different from ours. \n According to his way of figuring time, an 80-year-old person has lived only about two hours, and all of mankind’s history has lasted only about six days. When we look at things from this perspective, it becomes easier for us to understand God’s way of dealing with us.\n\nUnlike humans, God does not feel pressured to do things as if time were running out for him. As the “King of eternity,” he has a marvelous overview and can determine when in the stream of time his actions will do the most good for all involved.
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No, the Earth is much much older.  This is why the Bible is not to be taken literally.  If anything, we were meant to eventually point out these inconsistencies.  The truth is that the dinosaurs existed a long time ago (dragons) and were created to be just another amazing addition to life here on Earth.\n\nThe dinosaurs existed at a time when gravity as we experience it now was attenuated, and we experience much muss less of it.  This is how dinosaurs like the ultrasaur and massive bids like the teratorn were able to walk and fly around without collapsing under their own weight.
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i think you have answered your question pretty well. i think we will be dead by the time this is possible, but i do think we can find/inhabit a different planet in about???????????years. and as far as the bible goes, fiction novel. its hard for me to believe that so many peoples lives revolve around this book. god and santa are laughing it up with the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, while millions of weird-o's stand sit kneel, stand sit kneel....crazy
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God has limited man's life to 120 years- you can read it in Genesis chapter 6. Before that, men like Noah lived to be over 500 years old (Shem was born to Noah when he was 502).\n\nThe days were also shorter (360-day years vs. 365-day years), which accounts for the 130 year-old Jehoiada.
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You can say the same thing about the bible.  Other than faith there is nothing to say it is true just because some of the stuff mentioned existed in that time doesn't make the whole book true.