969 moon cycles...about 13.04 moon cycles a year....that would make him around 75, wouldn't it?
2007-01-17 03:15:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are absolutely CORRECT butters
2007-01-17 03:28:27 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting idea, but there is only one astronomical event that corresponds with a year. While it might make sense if there was a clear point at which people started counting years instead of lunar cycles, it seems unlikely that such a shift would have occurred without the variation being recorded SOMEWHERE. I honestly think people believed that early humans had extraordinary lifespans. Chalk it up to legend & mythology.
By the way, Ira Gershwin wrote in "Porgy & Bess" the following lyric:
"Old Methuselah lived 900 years.
Old Methuselah lived 900 years.
But who'd call that livin'
When no gal would give in
To no man what's 900 years."
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2007-01-17 03:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Moses' writing of Genesis gives the descendants of Cain, Adam and Seth which establishes the godly line to Noah.
If the moon cycle is involved in calculating Methusaleh's age of 969 years, why wouldn't Moses have explained this in the Bible? Where is this information coming from?
2007-01-17 03:38:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Im not sure how the moon cycles work. It just says in the Bible that he died at 969
2007-01-17 03:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by JDJ34 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no this is incorrect. because people at that time, they don't count a year as month. moon calendar also have months, and year. in your assumption that cycle means year. and do they say someone age 900 by the moon monthly cycle. I don't think so. more over, they don't understand at that time, what means cycle, because they think the earth is flat and that this just goes up and down.
2007-01-17 03:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, that would make him around 75, and I tend to agree that the Biblical year is closer in accuracy to what you have just presented than the 365 day year. It makes so much more sense.
2007-01-17 03:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most likely. Clearly man understood moon cycles before he understood solar cycles
2007-01-17 03:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who knows, and who really cares. The best part is though we get to say "As old as Methusela"
2007-01-17 03:19:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds about right.
2007-01-17 03:19:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That adds up.
2007-01-17 03:19:00 · answer #10 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋