Biblically speaking, what is the reason behind people in the old testament living to the ripe old age of 1000?\nits easy to write this off as fiction but i want to hear the religious or scientific reasons behind this question
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Until the Great Flood, there were no seasons; the weather was always temperate. After the Flood, G-d tells Noah that there will be constant seasonal changes (Genesis 8:22). \n\nRabbi Meir Leibush (Malbim) explains this as follows: Until the Flood, the earth's axis had no tilt relative to the sun. As a result of the flood, the earth's axis tilted in relation to the sun. Thus, the earth's climate changed drastically, resulting in a weakening of the human constitution and ability to withstand these constant changes in weather. \n\nThus, as a prelude to the Flood, G-d says "I won't constantly contend concerning Man … his life-span shall be 120 years (Genesis 6:3). The Ibn Ezra explain this to mean that lifetimes would gradually decrease, until the maximum will be around 120. \n\nI hope that answers your question about why people don't live as long today as they once did. \n\nAs for technology's inability to slow the aging process, that's more a problem with technology than with the Bible. "The scientific study of aging is a young discipline" (National Geographic Nov. '97). Compared to many areas of science, relatively little is known about aging. Richard A. Knox refers to the "black box of aging," and calls it a "mystery" (The Boston Globe 1997). \n\nBy way of example, take the case of Jeanne Calment who died in France last year at the age of 122. Why did she live so long? No one knows. Why did she stop living? "Officials gave no specific cause of death" (Houston Chronicle News Services 8/5/97). If she had lived another ten - or 100 - years, it wouldn't have contradicted any law of science.
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Some one asked a very similar question to yours a couple of days ago, questioning where Cain "found" his wife, however the so called "scholars" answered with the following :\n\n\n1. He married his sister\n2. There were other people on earth before God created Adam & Eve (which insinuates that some of us are not descendents of Adam & Eve and are therefore not created by God)\n3. The story is just metaphorical.\n\nThere are many other variations to the story and no "one" common belief among the biblical scholars. Which just goes to show that the story is not true. How could it be when the first form of written communication took place thousands of years after the Adam and Eve era? That would mean that the "story" was verbally communicated from generation to generation until it could be documented.
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First you have to look at the age of the book.  The bible is cut into 2 general parts.  The new testament is from about 0ish AD  The old testament claims to go to the beginning of time.  \n\nNow, let's revisit the "Phone game" from kindergarten.  Before they had paper and pen, stories were told from generation to generation.  Now let’s say there are 4-6 generations per century.  So the “phone game” is passed from person to person many times per century.  Hmmm, having been in kindergarten, I seem to remember that each retelling seemed to change fact into fiction.  Since the Old testament dates before written techniques, we can surmise that it is folklore and not fiction.  Now the new testament is a different story.  Here we know that monk’s mostly did the copying of the bible.  However we also know that kings enforced changes to suit the times. So if it is socially acceptable to change the text, who is to say that what you read is even remotely true.\n\nNow let’s add in the ambiguity of language.  The last time you read a Shakespearean play, did you take it verbatim word for word?  The bible also uses such vague diction.  Taken literally would be insane.  The moral basis of the text is good, but little fact can be derived from the text. \n\nNow for my personal opinion.  You can trust it to teach a general set of good morals to live by.  Aside from that, it is a good story.
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Interesting but contrary to Scripture. I understand the problem you're considering and offer this as a possible solution...\n\nAdam and Eve were perfect and it took several generations before the degenerating gene pool became severe enough to forbid incest.
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Huge Problems!!! where!!  have you ever thought the rules of the past may not be applied to what is today!  Adam is believed to have been created as a perfect being, and we know now that the humans are not perfect! get the point!!  Once upon a time Africa was a huge forest, now it is a big desert! ever wondered why!  think about it.\nDuring the time of ADAM and EVE, some believe didn't even have a spoken language, and now, we have so many languages!! ever wondered why!\nEarth is a living, or dying plant.  what was in the past, we many never see, or see again.\nCan you explain any of my questions! if you can! then you will get the answer to your questions as well.  Good luck if you can.\n\nIf the Genesis confuse you, try the Quran, but first take two asprines before you start reading. \ntake my advice.  Sincerely llewrose MD :)
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How about the fact that the entire scientific community accepts the age of the earth to be 4.6 billion years old?\n\nI have no idea what sources you're reading from or even if you just made all that up, but science is in no way "proving" the Bible. If anything, it's proving that the Biblical creation story is even LESS likely to actually have happened than we originally thought.\n\nAdam & Eve? Mainstream scientists laugh at that, man.
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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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The dinosaurs fit right in. What I don't get is how more people don't see how it fits but let me give you my humble opinion. This is not doctrine, this is one man's opinion. This is what I believe. On things of God we have a couple a sacred texts or scripture, in the oldest book about God written by the hands of prophets on stone, papyrii and what not we have accounts of the creation, in Genesis the first of even the pentetauch we are given such as slim or incomplete description that it is possible that 1 billion years could pass by as we read in a matter of one stanza. It has been said that 1 day in God's time is 1000 of our years in our reckoning. So lets take the first 6 days of the creation, or in particuliar the the 5th day after he had made some grass and light and stuff. In Gen 1:20 it say that He said" Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21. And God created great whales, and every living vreature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and Multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 32. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. " So that 5th day was very busy and at 1000yr /day reckoning its possible that it took 365,000 years to complete but cant know precisely yet . The beast of the earth that is referred to, also the great whales that are referred to, also refences to unicorns and all manner of beasts now extinct, isn't it possible that although not specifically mentioned that and on the 5th day about the 6th and 1/2 hour God made the T-rex and he blessed them and saw that they were ferocious. No . We only have this small wordage to assemble together the whole of creation. I dont see a problem with 17 billion year universe age and putting it into Gods plan at all. Bless you and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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Interesting scripure. But I'm also interested in this: the term 'last days' has been mentioned, and keeping in mind two things: the lord's overwhelming power to stretch and shrink time, combined with the fact that the last 2000 years there have been scoffers like mentioned above, when exactly will these 'days' end? This could take thousands of years, or be in a minute. But in that very minute a 'scoffer' *could* convert to the true faith, so if the lord is truly patient, he'd wait that minute too, or those thousands years, else it wouldn't be fair, I'd say.\n\nAnd tell me this: I am no scoffer, but in your eyes I'd probably be. But which of my desires are actually evil? My strongest desires are that people all over the world be stopped by blind judging other people, that people actually think before they act, that they take other people in mind when they take decisions that might effect them, in short that they respect other people and let them be. Another desire of mine is that helping people develop themselves, seek out their potentials, and enhance them, that they enjoy living in this beautiful world, and teach other people to enjoy too.\n\nBut since I don't need Jesus to actually do this, I am truly an ungodly man and I shall be destroyed by your lord.\n\nIf I'm to be judged by someone who doesn't look at my actions or my desires behind them, but at my lack of faith, and still wants to destroy me, please, let him do his thing, for I have nothing to be ashamed of and I rather live in hell knowing I have done right, than living in heaven for being a hypocrite.
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For one... your first one GE 11:16 "Terah was 70 years old when his son Abram was born."  is not in fact the verse in which you say it is... The one you put down Gen 11:16  says this "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg".  So, make sure you quote correctly.\n\nHere is what is written in the King James Version.\nGen 11:  \n 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  \n 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. \n 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. \n 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. \n 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. \n 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. \n 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.\n\nGen 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.  (This passage just reflects on Abrahm was 75 years old when he left Haran, he lived 5 years there after the death of his father.  Is there a problem with that?)\n\nActs 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.  This does not speak of Abraham \n\n (Acts 7: 1Then said the high priest, Are these things so? \n\n 2And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, \n\n 3And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. \n\n 4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. \n\n 5And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. \n\n 6And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. \n\n 7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. ......)\n\nNow that you have been found to not quote the scripture correctly... I have nothing more to say.  \n\nGood try but no cigar.
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1.  Ancient people, having no technical knowledge of a thing, would revert to the simplest answer to expalin it.  They were also much more religous than today's society and more readily accepted religous explanations for "evil."\n2.  I don't think this needs an answer...except...do you believe what you see?\n3.  See #2.
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Are you sure they knew nothing of it?  Also, are you sure that the Pharisees knew that he would rise from the dead?  Otherwise, why would they put guards at the tomb if they thought he would really rise.  I think the Pharisees thought someone would remove him from the tomb.  And I think his disciples didn't really know what "rise" meant.
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Good Lord. \nThe Old Testament was under the Law of Moses. As a christian today you should know that Jesus' death and resurrection removed us from the curse of the 'Law'. In the Old testament Israel was a fledgling nation. They were trying to seperate themselves from the 'pagans' Plus they were a lot less civilized than we are today. \nGod does not want you to kill your child, come on. If you truly believe that then you need psychological help and all your children should be removed from you care.
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I have read it and the following will prove it. These are real people with birth and death time. I love it. I read it 13 times in ten years and about 20 now, as they sa, each time you see what you missed before. I can read through 2 Chronicles in half a day now. I have never tried to describe the probably more than 1000 religions. I wanted to know the bible first and then determine who was right. I did not do that yet, do not except those studied.\n\nMoses began to compile the first five books. It is evident that Abraham was a collector of information. No problem for\nIsaac, Jacob and the 12 tribes to keep up with it. Easy for\ninfo to be passed onto Noah #10 1056-950-2006, and son Shem 1558-600-2158, 25 years to #20 Abraham dies and Ishmael is age 89, Isaac is age 75 Gen.25:9; when they bury Abraham.\n\nIshmael-2094-137-2231, and Isaac 2108-180-2288, after Adam.\nJacob-2168-147-2315[Gen.47:9,2... Joseph 2258-110-2368, end of Gen.50:26; \nJob 2293-140-2433, Moses 2433-40-2473-40-2513, Exo.7:7; 12:40,41[430]; Moses age 80 is 40 years in wilderness compiling 5 bible books to 2553, 1513 BCE. Deut.1:3; 34:7;\n\nJudges and priest to Jair 301 years from Moses, from\nJoshua is 300? Judges 11:26; 2553 + 301 = year 2854 After Adam in 89 years, Samuel is age 60= book of Ruth.\nYear 2943 and 1 Samuel to 25:1[Samuel dies]; Gad and Nathan write, 2 Samuel[Moses = 2513 + Acts 13:20; = 450 Samuel age\n60 in 2963, [+ 20 2983 dies]. 16 Samuel + 70 2Sam.5:4,5; king David dies and Psalms comes to be, 4 =] 90 = 3033 and Solomon begans temple 480th year from Moses death 1Ki.6:1; 11:42; 3069 is 997 BCE.\n\nSolomon lives another 36 years to 3069 after Adam and wrote\nProverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon. Kings end 3460 and 70 years later Ezra, Nehemiah, Ester and Mordecai, Haggai and Zechariah books come to be to 433 BCE Malachi.\n\n3069 + 391 years 1 and 2 Kings and I and 2 Chronicles the prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, until Judah kings end captive to Babylon {#3 Empire in Satan's world], Jeremiah writes Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel write. Daniel in 3460 after Adam and 606 BCE, gives complete prophecy to Jesus cut off in Rome #6 Empire in Satan's world, World get bible {in #7 Empire in Satan's world,].\n\nDan.4:16,23,25,32[7x 360 =] 2520 years beyond Babylon or 5980 after Adam, the world will have the bible and Rev.12:7-12[Rom.16:20; and Heb.1:1-13; enemy Satan, Dan,12:1-13]; Michael cast Satan out of heaven and has a short time until Jesus takes over as the 8th Empire in Satan's world is second coming of Jesus Rev.17:1-6,10-14[Jesus comes in 8th].\nRev.20:1-6; Jesus brings back everything to the original state of newness and perfection it had before sin, some\nmen turn to angels to join him in heaven as priest of God\nand Christ Heb.12:22-24; 1 Cor.15:22-28,50-53; John 6:66; 1Thes.4:15-17; Rev.3:12; 21:1-5;\n\nSo the New Testament had to began after {3460 + 606 after Christ= 4066]. We are 2006 after less KJV 1611 and in 303\nyears was an excepted translation, now any will do, but KJV is 395 years in our world.\nI hope I did not miss something, hard to do so much.
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Well, Adam lived to be 930 yrs old and Eve lived almost a long.  It was only later that God reduced the amount of years a man could love.  During this time they had many many sons and daughters.  And these sons and daughters married and reproduced as well.  I know what you're thinking; incest.  When God gave Moses the law He stopped immediate family members from marrying.  So, 930 years one can make a lot of babies.
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There were a bunch of books left out of the Bible. Mostly this was done to maintain consistancy. You can read some of them at my link. I have read most of the ones on this page and there is little "new" information.
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when it says that he will come as in the days of Noah, the writer is trying to give us a gimpse in to what will be going on around us at that time. before Noah and the flood, the Bible says the earth was wicked. likewise when he returns. and don't listen to people that tell you that he will only return AFTER the trib, that isn't true. the Bible says that God does not "provoke his children to wrath"  we have trials here but that isn't one that we will be here to see. \nin fact, the church isn't mention after Revelation chapter 4. because we are not here.\nhe will reign here for 1000 years but you are getting into something deep there! he will set up his new Kingdom, the New Jerusalem. \none more fact, that you might find worth listening to. when Jesus comes back for his saints, his feet will not touch this earth, we will go to him.. the only time his feet will touch this earth again, is during the 1000 year reign. \nI hope this helps some :-)