What do you think?

Question

Do you belitve that earlier people lived much longer then now? Like couple hundred years? Why do you think that is?

Answer 1

No, I don't believe that earlier people lived much longer than people now...what I think is that it seems that way when you get into all the old testament and see that "x" lived 720 years and "y" lived to be 920 years, etc all the way up to Methusela but back then, they didn't have the same system as we do for measuring time. They didn't have the minutes, hours, days and weeks and months and years that we use to register time so I think given the hard lives that many lived, it was probably much less of a life time span..than we now have.

Answer 2

People lived much shorter lifespans. In the late 1700's, for instance, the lifespan of a man in the US (well, the colonies soon to be the US) was in the mid-forties! Because our medicine (and knowledge of the human body!) has improved so drastically, we are living very long lives today.

Think about it: they didn't have any sort of antibiotics until after the first world war. If you got sick or had an infection you pretty much just died. In the middle ages, in Europe, they didn't know anything about the body: they didn't know about pulses, and they had wakes because they couldn't really be sure when someone was dead. They thought people had four humours that swished around in himan bodies, and that bodies were kind of hollow vessels. It's possibe in other parts of the world they were more enlightened, but it's pretty amazing at least in Europe to realize how little people knew.

Answer 3

Yes, If you read the genealogies of Genesis it not only tells how old they were when they died, but also how old the were when they had children! For example:

Genesis 5:
3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters. 5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

According to the Bible the less man walked with God the less he lived!

Answer 4

Back in the Beginning of time they lived hundreds of years but not the limit is120 years.

Answer 5

The air we breathe in is much like poison (due to petroleum and other natural fuels because we want/eager to be fast), and the food we eat is too fatty (fast food), and finally therefore, the fast we live the fast we vanish.

Answer 6

I think it is because God had a bigger purpose for some people.

Plus people are much unhealthier nowadays, what with the fattening, un-nutritious process food and the inventions that have us sit on our bums all day. Smog, cancer, AIDS...must I go on?

Answer 7

Adam lived for hundreds of years.. supposedely.

Answer 8

i believe that people live much longer now....and studies have actually proved it. People are able to protect themselves to the fullest nowadays, and advances in medicine have made many once deadly diseases minor annoyances.

Answer 9

yes i do, i believe as in the Bible where people lived long lives average about 300 to 400 years old...but God saw that it was too long for bad people to live so He shortened everyones life...

Answer 10

Its not a big reach.
In many places today, the average lifespan is 35 years.
That seems so short.
Yet its true.
Why can't the opposite be true?