Do you really believe that Methuselah lived to be 969 years old?

Question

Do you take the scripture literally? Maybe they were counting in months. How could a man live so long?

Answer 1

yes because the atmosphere was pure oxygen so that allowed them to live longer. they could also run hundreds of miles without getting tired

Answer 2

If God is who he says he is and created everything...then I guess he could make it so a man could live that long. Quit thinking on human terms and think of who God is.

Yes, he lived over 900 years. And yes I believe every word of the Bible. God didn't put me on this earth to wonder aimlessly without a guidebook and tool to use.

Everything in that book can be proved. More and more of the stories have been proven archeologically than you know. The Bible speaks of things that weren't proved by science until hundreds or even thousands of years after it was written.

1. Life is in the blood.
2. The earth does revolve around the sun.
3. Jericho's walls did fall in.
4. The earth is round.
5. The earth is tilted.
6. There are over 300 prophesies in the Bible and nearly all of them have been proved to have turned out just the way the Bible describes 100's if not 1000's of years before the events occured. I'm not just talking about Christ or other people, but cities as well.

It's an amazing book.

Answer 3

Yes, I agree with Jan, but keep in mind that God told Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, that they would die if they ate the forbidden fruit. Satan later countered that they would be like God knowing good and bad "in" the day that they ate the fruit. (King James Version) 2 Pet. 3:8 says that a thousand years is but a day to God, and a day a thousand years. No one is listed in the bible as having lived over 1000 years. Ex 12:2 refers to months and years, so to think that years were actually months would not be true. We are further away from perfection now so we don't live as long. There is a scripture, I think in Psalms that says we live till 70, and 80 if we are mighty. Some people are living longer than that these days because of the improvements in our quality of life and because they are "mighty".

Answer 4

Yes I do believe that!

When God created man, he created a pure genetic system. The gene pool was not damaged by generations of radiation, pollution, disease, and drugs. Inherited defects in the genes were not a problem. Also there was a pure and natural diet. No artificial colors, or preservatives. No highly processed foods.

Under these conditions, men would have naturally lived longer.

Now there are drugs, chemical pollution and we have generations of ancestors that have suffered from these and various illnesses. When you got your genes, you got all of the damaged genes that may have been handed down through your parents family trees. Most of these defects are not noticeable because a damaged gene from one parent is matched with a good gene from the other. Usually, the damaged gene is recessive and the good gene takes a dominant role.

When God created Adam, however, there were no damaged genes. For the next several generations, the gene pool would have still been very pure because defects would have been few.

Answer 5

Yes, I do.. It is because I believe in man as God's special creation. In that day mankind was much closer to the perfection his body had at creation. There were not all the degradation of our DNA caused by the many years until the middle of the dark ages when our life span hit it lowest. Could there have been an event that caused the earth to be changed? Maybe something that ould pull the seas up and flood the earth then pass by but having removed part of out atmosphere that protected our bodies from the ravages of solar and cosmic influences? The "non-believer" can say this in improbable all they wish. And at the same time they can believe life popped into being from a lightening flash... What inconsistency they hold as "truth".... Jim

Answer 6

Yep, I do. The reason a man could live so long, was because the earth wasn't polluted yet, and people ate food that was natural, without poisons, etc. Thats what I think, anyway.
Did you notice that no person ever got to be over a thousand years old?
Thats because after the sin of Adam and Eve,
God said that because that was done, man would not live past a day. One day with the Lord is as a thousand years to man.
Nothing contradicts in the Word of God.

Answer 7

Well if you divide 969 by 12 months (no need to bother with lunar months, this is close enough) you get 80+ years for his age. That's certainly believable, so I'd have to say that Methuselah lived into his 80's and that they used months for years when calculating age. It makes so much more sense.

The Native Americans counted by moons, so why not other cultures?

Answer 8

I believe it is true. I think it is possible that there was a vapor canopy or some sort of layer around the earth that helped people live longer because they weren't exposed to harmful UV rays from the sun. Uv rays causes people to age faster.

Answer 9

WEll that could have been before herms had evolved to where they could harm humans, it was a really long time ago. I take some scripture literally and some symbolically like revalation is symbolic and the torah is literall

Answer 10

no, i don't believe that any scripture is even meant to be taken literally. as poe put it, all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

fun, huh?

ironic how people suck of the truth and life out of a thing by trying to pretend it's true to life.