Is it true in biblical times people lived longer like 200 yrs old, why not today?

Answer 1

I understand you confusion. I used to not understand. Perhaps the following will help.

The Bible states that when God created the world and everything in it, it was all ‘good’, and if you look at God’s standards, then by our standards, His ‘good’ would exceed our ‘perfect’.

If you notice, for the first 1,400 years or so, people lived for hundreds of years, but after about 1400 years of human civilization, God destroyed the earth with a great cataclysm, most often referred to as Noah’s flood. But the Bible says that it was much more than a flood.

It states that the fountains of the great deep opened up, and the windows of heaven were opened. This could easily have involved earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves hundreds of feet high, and total upheaval. Much of what is now the ocean floor may have been dry land before this cataclysm, with the water coming up from underground in terrible geysers, only to later settle on top of the land as the flood subsided. It is speculated that many great meteorites may have pummeled the earth and moon at this time, causing the destruction on earth and the many large craters on the moon.

After things settled down, and Noah came out of the ark, he saw that the atmosphere had been radically altered. The oxygen content and air pressure were much lower, as well as less carbon dioxide. This would expose humans to much higher levels of cosmic radiation such as gamma rays and x rays not to mention ultraviolet rays. These problems, among other things, would begin to damage our DNA over time, like using a copy machine to make a copy of a copy of a copy, etc. If you’ve ever done that, eventually the copy is not even readable. Over time, our DNA would become flawed, and it would just get worse as time goes on.

This dramatically shortened the life spans.

Answer 2

Oh dear, this'll take a while.
There is a lot of science involved, so bear with me. Before Noah's flood, there was a sheet of ice floating above the Earth via the Meissner effect. In Genesis, it says that the sky seperated the water from the water. The sheet of ice doubled the atmospheric pressure and kept out harmful cosmic rays. Bacteria wer in extremely small numbers, everything grew very large, and the world was very, very different. It's amazing how much this changed the Earth. Then when the flood came, the sheet of ice broke apart and fell to the Earth, and all the air escaped into space. Without the paradisic condition made by the layer of ice, life spans dropped. Complicated, huh? Go to www.drdino.com and look around. You should be able to find an expanded explanation.

Answer 3

Yes.

MAN WAS SUPPOSED TO LIVE FOREVER [FOREVER WAS LOST]:

JESUS is the SAVIOR of all that was LOST in his Rev.20:1-6; 1000 year reign.

God's years is a 1000 year day. 2Pet.3:8; Rev.20:1-6[ to save all];
Adam was created perfect, his first day would be a 1000 year day, he would die in the day that he sinned, He sinned before he had any offsprings.
930, 912, 910, 905, 895, 365, 962, 969, 777, 950 to Noah in a life sustaining earth, then came the flood and destroyed the life sustaining earth, but there was no life to sustain, so we have a temporary life, with the promise of a SAVIOR. All made new. 2Pet.3:13; Isa.65:17; 66:22; Rev.2:7; 21:1-5; Luke 23:43;
Rev.20:1-6,12,13; In 1000 years all LOST will be SAVED into a new heavens and a new earth or that which was before Eden is restored,
1Cor,15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
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Answer 4

In parts of the bible, yes, certain people lived to over 200 years old.
I wouldn't know for sure why, but my guess would be this:
I have a feeling that people who do what God says in the Bible live more frutiful and longer lives than usual. People like Abraham lived very long, where people like Judus, don't. Again, that's simply a theory. You should go to your local church and ask the pastor.

Answer 5

Dragonfly is right, its because since Adam and Eve had sinned, they would die; although not instantly. Slowly, after time, they died, and man's life span got shorter and shorter through the millenia. Someone said we die earlier because of the lives we live with pollution and fast food, but I mean.. there are many people who live on Islands in Africa and Jamaica and other places like this who dont eat bad foods and live very healthy lives, just like people in Biblical times..but you dont see any of them living up to 200 years :)

Answer 6

Adam lived almost 1000, they needed to live that long so they can populate the Earth... since the world is populated with so many humans already we don't need to live that much... plus, our lives are a book for God to read, if you write a good novel we get into Heaven, so since we don't screw up so many times like in the past we can be accepted in Heaven faster, before we do some nasty ****... if we are "naughty" we live longer until we do something God likes and that will make Him want you to go to Heaven... easy, gimme another one >:D

Answer 7

Yep Methusulah lived 969 years for example, Men were mightier back then and able to live a lot longer but God eventually shortened the Lifespan of Mankind

Answer 8

In biblical times, people lived hundreds of years. Methusalah was over 900 years old. One theory is that they lived so long so the earth could be populated.

Answer 9

Yes, because of the sin of Adam and Eve, Man has slowly lost the years of great age. Some lived up to 900 years.

Answer 10

Actually they lived longer than that. There was a point in scripture where the Lord said man would no longer live that length of time.

Answer 11

The more people sinned the shorter their life span, God finally set the life span at 70 years, but as more people became closer to Him that time span was lengthened