according the bible, have our lives been numbered to a maximum of 120yrs? If you know please give book, chapter and verse.
2006-11-08 01:32:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Man was created to live forever. Sin stopped that.
I do not believe that God placed a time limit on a mans age. I recently remember a man dying at age 127. That may have been a modern record, I don't know.
The verse you refer to is in Genesis 6. It is not a reference to how long man can live, but to how long man had left to live. God sent the flood 120 years later that destroyed all mankind, save Noah and his family.
3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Gen 6:3 (NASB)
2006-11-08 01:42:01 · answer #1 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were men in the Bible who lived much longer than that. In modern times, there have been rare people who have lived past 101. There's nowhere written in the Bible that tells how long everyone will live. If everyone was supposed to live the same amount of time, then how do account for diseases, murders, etc? In the Middle Ages, a person was lucky to live past 40, and 12-15 would have been the equivalent of say 25-30 today due to the living conditions of the time. That's why girls were married off and expected to be mothers as soon as they hit puberty.
This is just another time you cannot use the Bible as proof for anything.
2006-11-08 09:41:45 · answer #2 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is indeed a creator god, man was never designed to live forever. Biological impossibilities aside, within a few thousand years the entire planet would be completely and utterly saturated with immortal people. Putting a reproductive immortal creature on a finite geographic location is illogical and absurd.
2006-11-08 09:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by DoctorScurvy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our lives have been numbered not to excede a thousand years, (these mortal lives that is, the flesh) You can see that in Gen where God is giving the punishment for Adam and Eve's disobeying Him, He said that they shall not live a day (either a day or another day) some interpert this to mean that a day to God is a thousand years, and no one has ever made it to a thousand years.
2006-11-08 09:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeaps they can. No one's really sure about who really is/ was the longest living person. This is owing to the fact that many births and deaths are not recorded in remote areas, and in fact many of these remote places are the ones with people who live really, really long-- due to diet, lack of pollution etc.
However, for now, I'll just provide one example to prove your statement wrong.
Jeanne Louise Calment-- lived till the age of 122.
http://www.wowzone.com/calment.htm
2006-11-08 09:38:19 · answer #5 · answered by Chocolate Strawberries. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can. The Bible does not limit Years of life.
2006-11-08 09:33:57 · answer #6 · answered by King 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the hadith,Muhammad s.a.w. said:"My follower's life is only 60 to 70 years,the rest of the years was just bonus.Of course in that time there was no "bonus" word.
2006-11-08 09:55:32 · answer #7 · answered by Green Lantern 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the geneology. methuselah supposidly lived the longest in Genesis 5 living to nine hundred sixty and nine years. But then the sin hadn't affected how long we could live much.
2006-11-08 09:38:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 6:3 God limits mans life to 120yrs. ... will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is mortal
2006-11-08 09:38:55 · answer #9 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋