Why do you think People Lived hundreds of years old in Biblical Times?

Question

In Genesis how the earth when it was created had "The waters above and the water below". This suggests that the earth at one time was surrounded by a protective sphere of water placing it inside a tarrarium like hiperbaric chamber.

This would account for fossilized evidence of sealife as well as vegetation at the highests regions of earth
Could this also account for the reason why biblically people lived for well over 500 years prior to the flood and lifespans drastically decreased immediatly post-flood as there was no longer a protective shield from the suns crippling effects. Would this excess weight of water account for the tectonic plate seperation

There are also accounts of beings of advanced intillect perpetrated by fallen angels in various works from that time. See (Al Azif)(The book of Enoch) (Genesis)(Nephilim). There is archological evidence as well of their existence and says that they were destroyed in the great flood by God or the great one...Thoughts?

Answer 1

Some of that is possible. Although I think the long-living is due to the fact that sin had a gradual progressive effect on the human body.
I don't go for the fallen angels stuff, personally.
But living a few hundred years could make somebody into quite a genius.
There are records all over the earth of a universal flood - I don't see why people have so much trouble believing that one.

Answer 2

To be honest, I think it was a mistranslation on the part of people who use a solar calendar, mistranslating the words of people who used a lunar calendar. When I was young, I used to hear the expression "moons" as in "many moons ago". I took it for granted that a "moon" was a year. In my adulthood, I learned that we used to use a lunar calendar. In the lunar calendar, time was measured in 13 months of 28 days, plus an extra day at the end of the year, hence the expression, "a year and a day". I think that someone accustomed to a solar calendar, read an expression or word related to a lunar calendar, and mistranslated a lunar expression pertaining to a month, as a year instead. 500 months in a lifespan would make far more sense in the context of what we know of lifespans in ancient times. That is my story, and I am sticking to it.

Answer 3

After God flooded the sinful people on this earth. God realized that humans are too sinful and does not want humans to live over 115. There's a verse in the bible that he shorten or life span to 115 years (I need to find my notes on that. but we can live beyond that limit). Humans were meant to live more than 100 years. If they didn't have that much time, Adam and Eve would not produce a lot of children to take care of the world.

Answer 4

Asalaamulikum,

yes this is true, people in past did live long lives, there was even a prophet peace be upon him, I don't remember his name, the story goes, a mother had lost her son, who was about 400 years old, and she was crying and tellin this to the prophet at that time, he told her, There will come a time in the future where, people will around 60 as an old age.

salaamulikum.

Answer 5

it only seemed that way. before the flood they measured years in 6 month increments. after the flood they switched to the current day calender. things in the bible arent meant to be taken literally. you have to keep in mind that those things were passed on for several generations before they were even put into writing.

Answer 6

No pollution.
No war.
No atomic bombs.
No guns.
No cigarettes.
No getting drunk and binge drinking.

I honestly don't think the Bible tells the truth, at all. People couldn't've lived hundreds of years. It just doesn't seem possible.

Answer 7

There are inscription on tablets of "Pre-Flood" Kings living up to almost 60,000 years.

Answer 8

They lived longer because the world was much warmer then.

Answer 9

They were closer to perfection back then

Answer 10

they were closer to perfection,why if adam and eve didn't sin they would never have died.