I meen really not Methuselah.
People say Methuselah was the longest-lived man, with a specified age, in Biblical history. He lived 969 years and was the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Adam.
As the ancient Hebrews used a lunar calendar, a lifespan of 969 months would equate to a more reasonable sounding 84 years.
Yes so if he only lived to be 84 was he really the oldest?
God wasn't alive he was never born.
So who really was the longest living person in the bible? For real.
2006-06-25 03:19:56 · 10 answers · asked by Paul B 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The "lunar calendar" argument where "years really are months" is bunk.
Proof? Mahalaleel became the father of Jared when he was 65 years old. Use the "years to months" formula and you've got Mahalaleel becoming a daddy at the age of 5.
Years means years.
2006-06-25 03:30:51 · answer #1 · answered by Paul McDonald 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, those were real years. You have to apply the logic to the people who came later, who lived only 100-200 years and who often had chlidren when they were in their thirties. Apply that and you have people who lived to 8-16 years, and had kids at around 3 years!? That doesn't make sene at all.
No, believe it or not these people were really living that long. In the bible at one point God said that he decided to limit the years of people on the earth to about 120 years, and think about it today, the oldest modern people are recorded as living about the 120 mark.
It makes a lot of sense; when people lived hundreds of years they had a much greater chance of producing a lot more children to populate the earth, and so ensure the survival and spread of humanity. When it got to a certain level the age was limited so that people wouldn't run out of resources so quickly. Of course, that's my theory.
So the answer is still Methuselah, 969 years. The God of the Bible is a miraculous one, so I wouldn't try to rationalise that part when it's so clear.
2006-06-25 03:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by rapturefish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no indication in Scripture that it was not years (969). If you say Jesus, thats wrong-he only lived as a human for about 33 years. You must be calling God a person, and if so then God would be the oldest.
2006-06-25 03:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your reasoning is very faulty. A year is still a year. Moses is the one who wrote this all down. How do you account for the folks who only lived 90 or so years later on in the same book?
It states later after the tower of babel that God severely shortly lifespans so they couldn't repeat the things they did before.
2006-06-25 03:27:00 · answer #4 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Methuselah lived 969 years Genesis 5.27
2015-11-27 05:16:55 · answer #5 · answered by Charles d. winters 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
methesela was the longeest lived person. it was years not months
2006-06-25 03:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by Vee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they used a normal calendar (like the one we used today)
2006-06-25 03:23:39 · answer #7 · answered by pjcswart 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thought it was Noah actually. lol guess you learn something new everyday
2006-06-25 03:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who gives a **** about what bible says
2006-06-25 03:24:17 · answer #9 · answered by Lusty God 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have to do more research , by the way do you beleive in "jesus"?
2006-06-25 03:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by sugar_girl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋