it states"All the days of noah were nine hundred and fifty years" am i misunderstanding that or does it mean he died when he was 950?if the bible is claiming to be "true" then why write this or why dont we live that long now?
2007-01-04 08:00:01 · 24 answers · asked by Arlette 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-04 08:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by I *Heart* Plato 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Personally, I think it had to do with the flood. The lifespans started to get shorter right after that time, and those before where for hundreds of years. The Bible does not specifically answer it, but we can draw our own thoughts and conclusions, though they may be wrong. FYI Moses was not as old as Methuselah - 969 yrs.
Prior to the flood, the earth must have been very different than it is now. Possibly it was cloud covered like Venus all the time. Why else would God use the rainbow as a sign not to flood again? Had they not seen one before? The flood must of been catastrophic, the "deep" giving up it's waters. Land masses and coastlines changed forever. The sun, maybe for the first time, was able to reach the surface. Imagine the climatic changes. The animals that could not survive died off over time, while others adapted to their new environment. Could our lifespan have changed because of it as well? Just a thought...
2007-01-04 08:04:46 · answer #2 · answered by Bill Mac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have often wondered that... And after pondering that thought for awhile I came up with this conclusion. Back in the day, did they really have a good grip on the concept of a calendar as we know it? I don't think so. I think what was more important to them was the cycles of the planted crop. Or better put, the cycles of the moon. So, I think as the phases of the moon pass. This could have been miss-interpreted as years to the writers of the bible.
Maybe they were really saying that Noah lived 950 moon cycles instead of 950 years. This seems to make more sense to me.
Because after all, I doubt the majority of the people back then lived longer than we do now.
2007-01-04 08:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by dewhatulike 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Creationist scientists believe that before the flood of Noah there was a huge water layer in the sky. It had never rained before the flood, so how'd they water the crops and such? Well with this extra water layer dew would form and give all the plants water and such. Now this water layer in the sky would make huge greenhouse effects. One of which of these effects would be tons of oxygen. Now if your body runs on oxygen right? All that cell respiration stuff. Your mucles get tired when they can't get enough of oxygen. Imagine the air being so rich in oxygen that your blood is always saturated with it. That would basically enable you to run for miles without tiring. And in the long run it'd make you live longer.
If you have more questions about creation vs evolution just look up Kent Hovind.
2007-01-04 08:11:00 · answer #4 · answered by Alien51 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Eve had the perfect body,Our body still perfect but because of generation after generation our system became weak with many diseases and health problem.
We really don't know how long Adam could have live in the garden. Adam could have been there for a million years or more before he ate the forbidden fruit and got himself a little wife call Eve. But we do know that after the curse he started to Age slowly but Age. And after generation of inbreeding we have the humans that live on earth today. All from one Man and one Woman.
2007-01-04 08:23:19 · answer #5 · answered by Linda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Adam & Eve hadn't become the worst human traitors in history they would be some 6,000 yrs. old and alive today!
So because Adam lost his perfection, he lived 930 yrs.
(Genesis 5:5) "5 So all the days of Adam that he lived amounted to nine hundred and thirty years and he died."....8?So all the days of Seth amounted to nine hundred and twelve years and he died."
We might illustrate how that might be. If we have a mold in which we pour semi-liquid clay & the mold has a crack in it. When we fire the pot that crack will appear because it is in the mold, an imperfection. As we fire the pot in the mold gradually that crack can get weaker and weaker, and the product may show greater flaws as we continue to fire the clay in that kiln.
Basically that is what has happened to he human race. Moses wrote what our average time span would be some 2500 years ago. Please note:
(Psalm 90:9-10) " 9 For all our days have come to their decline in your fury; We have finished our years just like a whisper. 10 In themselves the days of our years are seventy years; And if because of special mightiness they are eighty years,. . ."
2007-01-04 08:16:57 · answer #6 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it means that literally they lived that long. After sin, and Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, things began to die. When Noah was told to build the arc, rain came for the first time. God caused the firmament to change, and water to come from the earth, and heavens. Pollution, time and sickness started more and more.
This caused life to become shorter and shorter. Until here we are today.
That is why another answer said the tree of knowledge. It all started there.
2007-01-04 08:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Math differs throughout 2,000 years
I'm a better christian than fireball :
What give you the right to decide if someone you have never even met is tto premiscuouse or not.
And why did an innocent question piss you off so bad, In my eyes a GOOD christian would allow so much hate to dictate their moods. At least Fireball doesn't go around bashing other's.
Come on don't take it litterally,
Tell me why before Jesus saved us, we were being rewarded with long life, then Jesus dies for us and we're punished? So what was the point in the crusifiction.
This is what I am understanding people actually believe.
We lived to be almost 1,000 years old.
The we get punished and the life expectancy was in the earily 40'sthen throughout time THAT grows to the 50's and so on and so on, because of modern medicine.
So are you saying God has our life expectancy on a yoyo
2007-01-04 08:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think that the people that wrote the bible might have gotten months and years confused, because if you divide 950 by 12 you get 79 yrs which would make these figures more in line with today life span.
2007-01-04 08:21:20 · answer #9 · answered by Ynot! 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Back then they were closer to perfection than we are right now. We are further away so our live span is 60 or 80 years. However, that will change in the near further. We will be able to live forever thanks to God for the sacrifice that his son Jesus made. He died that we may live. If you are a bible reader, please read John 17:3. It talks about eternal life and what is required of us to gain it.
2007-01-04 08:51:47 · answer #10 · answered by loladrewblue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the flood there was a canopy of water surrounding the atmosphere of the earth. This canopy of water caused the air to be very pure which meant the oxegen levels were a lot better than now. There were no genetic defects then either to bring on disease.
2007-01-04 08:08:04 · answer #11 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋