2007-07-16 11:29:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not that I know of...
2007-07-16 11:31:24 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
About 20 years
2007-07-16 18:33:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, a "generation" is the average time it takes for one child to produce a child. That means if you are 20 and have a child, that would be one "generation."
For years, the twenty year difference was used as the time laps between generations. Since populations are getting older before they have their first child, the time for a "generation" is expanding also.
2007-07-16 18:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by Lou 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generation
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/generation
1 a : a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor b : a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously c : a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period d : a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type
2 a : the action or process of producing offspring : PROCREATION b : the process of coming or bringing into being
3 : the average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
2007-07-16 18:40:42 · answer #4 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. The average definition is 20-25 years for genealogical purposes.
2007-07-16 18:34:15 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the Bible it refers to all of mankind, in general, being a generation. So in Biblical terms we are one generation. that is, all of the humans ever born. So it means we are the same, all of us, a generation. ( The entire race of Jews. )
As the word is used today it means a set of parents as a generation, and then their children a generation, etc.
It is also a term used to identify a group of same aged people.
Also note that many word meanings have changed over the history of our world and words were used in different ways and meant different things at certain periods of history.
2007-07-16 18:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, but I know why you are asking...
When Jesus mentions "this will all happen" within this generation, He's talking about what will be happening within the generation when He returns, not the one 2000+ years ago.
Hope that helps!
2007-07-16 18:34:44 · answer #7 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if you are Christian.
Mat 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
2007-07-16 18:33:58 · answer #8 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A generation goes like this. Your grandmother is one generation, then your mom is the next, then you..if you're lucky then your children are another generation.
2007-07-16 18:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. it's like 20ish years, as in your parents and you are in a different generation.
or it can be seen as 70-80 years or whatever the approximate lifespan is.
but i've never heard of it being 2000 years
2007-07-16 18:33:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was resurrected 3 days after he was placed in the tomb, and the temple was destroyed, as he predicted, in 70 A.D. - within a generation of his death and resurrection.
2007-07-16 18:36:31 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋