Genesis 6:1-3: "When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.'"--i.e., the Lord was cutting off the human lifespan at 120 years.
However, if you do a chronological analysis of the next few chapters, you'll see that this process wasn't instantaneous, because some of Noah's descendants lived well over two hundred years for a few generations after the flood.
2006-09-30 02:01:36
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answered by ichliebekira 5
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Because genetically, they were a lot closer to Adam than we are. As the genes mutated, life spans decreased. But, the generation that was of the age of understanding at the time when the signs of the second presence of Christ began being fulfilled, is the first generation to live longer than 46 years on average, in almost 2000 years. They are the generation that will not pass away until all the signs are fulfilled. Those still living are currently 104 years of age, but dying quickly. So, you need to be asking yourself is are you ready for what is coming?
2006-09-30 02:22:14
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answered by Anonymous
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In Moses time, evil was not as bad as it is today, & there was not as many diseases then that there is today, Don't misunderstand me,God never puts sickness on anyone, But God can step back & let Satan work on someone, JOB is a good example, God allowed satan to do anything he wanted to, to try o persuade JOB to deny his God, The only thing that satan could not do was to take JOB life. That is just an example, The same oday, with all evil round about, God is just stepping back & letting satan try everyone to see who will stand for God or deny God. God already knows the outcome, but yet ALL must be tested. HIV is one disease that God step back & just said well if you want to live that kind of lifestyle, Then there is a price to be paid, Please, Don't misunderstand me here either, There are innocient people that has caught aids, by blood transfusion & other innocient reasons, Those i not the ones that God will point his finger at. So today we have more sickness & dieases.
2006-09-30 02:11:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Alot of people still do but the statistics show the increase of the population more children are being born than anyone dying, Moses died of old age, many of us will die before old age can get to us.
2006-09-30 02:03:15
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answered by Mosez 4
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attractive question and both attractive heritage innovations. There looks extremely some unresearched incorrect information floating round. God (proprietor of this finished universe) would have early human beings stay for far longer, if he had needed it so. I have no doubt of that. yet why? i imagine the acute toughness in our non secular and mythological texts have a miles less demanding and extra a chance answer. i like the conception of residing to 1000 or perhaps extra. I loved the fable of The Highlander residing for hundreds of years. yet i imagine those are in basic terms pleasant thoughts. look, first, at Genesis 5:2. In it, we see that Adam is being defined contained in the plural -- as a "them," and as both male and woman. In different words, he's all of early humanity -- the completed "tribe" of guy. perchance all the early patriarchs were somewhat the tribes named after their founder. this would also be real for the early, god-kings of Egypt, each and each of whom changed into suggested to have lived for most 1000's or 1000's of years, going again tens of 1000's of years. In my many years of analysis, i have continually wondered the literal account. some biblical statements can not be taken actually, like Adam would die on the day he ate the forbidden fruit. He did not actually, bodily die on that day. Genesis is holding another which skill. all of us understand from technology that human beings were round for no less than 2 hundred,000 years, so a literal Genesis timeline is incorrect (like Ussher's 4004 BC for the initiating of the universe). So, if the Bible does have a valid timeline, it has remained hidden contained in the textual content. The already outrageously lengthy a at the same time as for the early patriarchs are too short! If Adam changed into the first human and regularly happening tribe, then the lengths of the a at the same time as of the tribes favor to be prolonged through some component or aspects. And those aspects were discovered (see references, lower than). no longer only that, the recent biblical timeline supplies us a clean date for Noah's Flood (that does no longer conflict with presently conventional historic previous). And that new date, at the same time as placed next with the dates latest in technology, let us know the id of Genesis 6's "daughters of guy" -- those responsible for God's "wrath."
2016-11-25 03:50:49
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answered by ? 3
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Before the flood in Noah's day, people lived to be over 900 years old.
Earth was much different then.
The Bible says in Genesis, that there was a water (ice) shield over our atmosphere. This did several things. 1) It keep out harmful rays from the sun. 2) Our air pressure was about 2 times greater. 3) We had almost twice the oxygen level in the air.
This was a very healthy environment.
Today doctors are beginning to use hyperbolic chambers to help treat and cure a number of sickness and injuries.
People use to grow to about 11 feet tall (we have skeletons and remains), and since reptiles keep growing their whole lives, they became what we call dinosaurs (in the Bible they are called dragon, Leviathan, Behemoth and unicorn).
2006-09-30 02:08:08
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answered by tim 6
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Mythical exaggeration. Archaeological digs indicate that humans didn't live very long past fifty or so. No medical technology, and only basic ideas about hygene.
2006-09-30 02:12:36
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answered by Scott M 7
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Moses lived much longer than that. People lived much longer because there was less pollution and the soil was more fertile. People were healthier.
2006-09-30 02:01:50
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answered by SeraMcKay 3
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Before (BC) is now accounted <-bwd; So Moses lived only 120 yrs because it was the limit of time alloted to him by his LORD(LAW); And going further bwd Adam lived nearly 1000yrs is as 1day(2Pet 3:8), but Adam surely died the day he ate "both good and evil": law is good, but also evil. Our Father, deliver us from evil: Mt 6:13. We are delivered from the law: Rom 7:6. Selah.
"As in Adam(male & female "them", "created" of created/made: Gen 5) all die": 1Cor 15. "All die" is extinction, not salvation. "All perish" is extinction, not salvation. "All dead" is dinosaur-ish.
After (AD) is notably accounted fwd->; And it's now the "third day" of AD, beyond 2000AD, beyond the last "days" of AD; And in the third "day" he will raise "us" up, of them/us. Perhaps up "higher than the heavens" on "high" is childish & hellish whether left or right in such law law places called spiritual wickedness: law is spiritual, but also spiritual wickedness; Also notably both a fall(from grace) and a fearful thing, to "fall into the (plural)hands of God" on "high", in (divided law law) "heavens". So those in heavens on high have fallen, from grace above.
Law Law Division Before(BC)<-|->(AD)After Grace us Unity
Pst - of then/now, it's "now" AD->goes one way, unto the end:
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.
2006-09-30 02:40:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Physically, they were closer to perfection than us.
Before the flood, they lived to be hundreds of years old.
2006-09-30 01:57:06
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answered by rangedog 7
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