BUT... what constituted a year. No not our current year but what people considered a year in the beginning?

Question

I have read that a what is referred to as a year in Genesis etc. could well have been a month so some the the nasty answers are not necessary. I am really asking a serious question. You must admit that 930 years the way we calculate a year is pretty hard to believe.

Answer 1

The time then is the exact as it is now, the same order of days, weeks and months but the year when it was calculated was considered as 360 days until the 1500's when it was seen that it was a bit off according to the stars. People will tell you things just to make it look as if they know what they are talking about but what I am telling you can be proven and has been if you will but look at the history books. The Jewish year was 360 days, the month was 30 days but as we have gotten more accurate in the calculations, it was found if they just added 5 days to the yearly length, they would not have to drop or add so many days as was done before. They had to adjust to make the year come out as it should until they changed the number of days in the year but still had to add a day every four years, what we call Leap Year. The days as we know them came from the pagan system and was finally adopted by the Christian churches when the pagans were brought into the Catholic church in the fourth century but they were called the same names even before Christ by the pagans. Others called them by the first day, second day and so on through the Seventh day. IF you look at Genesis, you will find that during the Creation week, you had plants that were created one day and the light for them the next day. If you know anything about plants, you will know they could not go a month or even a year before they got light without dying off so some will tell you there was a year for a day then but there is no way it could have been and the plants live. They were literal 24 hour days just as we have now. As for the people living a lot longer, think of their conditions and maybe you can see it a bit clearer how it could be. Man was just made perfect, with no aging gene and was not supposed to die and was given the perfect diet of fruits grains and nuts. No meat there that was taken in and it would not be allowed in the diet of man until after the flood in Genesis 7. That is why they lived so long, no disease, no meat eating, perfect diet, perfect bodies that were made to last for all eternity. After sin, they were barred from the tree of life but until then they had eaten of it so had that vitality. After the flood, God saw that man was going really bad and needed something to cut down his life span so as well as the fact there was no vegetation to speak of left, He said for the first time that man could eat the clean animals. They knew the clean from the unclean then even before there was a Jew so the arguement that it is a Jewish law is totally false. What was clean or unclean then is still clean or unclean now. Those that eat a vegetarian diet are a lot healthier than those that eat meat. See any of the recent health studies done on that subject. Oldest man was 969 years and he died just before the flood. When Jesus comes to get us and we have the access to the tree of life again, or for us for the first time, we will live for all eternity. If we can live for all eternity, why is it so hard to think man could have lived 900+ years? For more info, see site below.

Answer 2

A year back in Genesis was based on a 360 day year as opposed to our 365 day year. Every major empire at that time had a 360 day calander. In 701 BC, every empire changed there calanders to reflect a 365 day year. The speculation of many scientist is that in 701 BC, a near passby of Mars altered the orbit of Earth, adding the extra 5 days per year.

As for the long lives of the early inhabitants of earth, if you read Genesis, you will see that the people were around with many generations of their offspring. God said Adam lived 930 years, and I believe God.

Answer 3

I believe that God is not trying to confuse us in the Bible, He means people lived to be 930 years, just like we know a year to be.

Do you understand that Adam was created in God's image, and that part of that image is eternal and timeless? Adam did not become mortal until after the fall, when instead of living forever with God, he was made to die eventually. It was only later that God further reduced man's life to an approximate 120 years. This is perhaps the reason why we have such a big brain when we only use a small portion of it. Some parts are well, turned off.

Answer 4

This argument has been settled for a long time. A year back then was the same as a year is today. Adam lived for 930 of our years. You read someone's speculation. A month is not a year.

Answer 5

There is a story in the Norse religions. "There is a rock the size of a mountain in the far North, every year a single sparrow flies to it and sharpens it's beak. When that rock is worn away from the sparrows work, a second will have passed in the eyes of God"

So, no one knows how God measures time.

Answer 6

I agree that 930 as we know it is a long time, but I really don't know how you could find that out. They may have based that on a lunar calendar, but I don't know how long a year was in a lunar calendar. I really don't know where you could look to find out what constituted a year back then.

Answer 7

in the book of peter it says a day is 1000 years

Answer 8

God determined it by the seasons- summer fall winter spring- and it still is this way.

Answer 9

that's a hypothetical question that will get hypothetical answer....we cannot know exactly, what we can do is just creating hypotheses

Answer 10

It doesn't matter--- we are on GOD'S own timing-- so just be focused and be ready when Jesus comes again!!