people in the bible lived a very long time?

Question

does anyone really beleive that moses lived to be over 900 years old? could it have even been possible way back when for people to live so long...my gut tells me no way..but im not a scientist

Answer 1

AFTER SIN LIFE WAS LONG IN THE LIFE SUSTAINING EARTH

BORN-AGES-DIED-FLOOD-SONS-#0- FATHERS AND SCRIPTURE
YEAR-SPAN-YEAR-TO BE- BORN 00 NAME BELOW:
0000 0930 0930 0726. 0130 #01 Adam ...... Gen.5:3,5
0130 0912 1042 0614. 0105 #02 Seth ........ Gen. 5:6,8
0235 0905 1140 0516. 0090 #03 Enos ........ Gen.5;9;11
0325 0910 1305 0421. 0070 #04 Cainan ...... Gen.5:12,14
0395 0895 1335 0366. 0065 #05 Mahalaleel Gen.5:15;17
0460 0962 1422 0243. 0162 #06 Jared ........ Gen. 5:18,20
0622 0365 0987 0669. 0065 #07 Enoch ....... Gen.5:21;23
0687 0696 1656 0000. 0187 #08 Methusaleh Gen.5:25;27
0874 0777 1651 0005. 0182 #09 Lamech ....... Gen.5:28;30
1056 0600 0000 0000. 0600 #10 Noah .......... Gen.9:28,29
----------------------- 1656 at Flood year Gen.7:6;

LIFE GETS SHORTER AFTER FLOOD ENDS LIFE SUSTAINING EARTH
.... .... ....... ........ After .... .... flood ........
1558 0600 2158 0502. 0002 #11 Shem ......... Gen 11:10,11
1658 0483 2141 0485. 0035 #12 Arphaxad . Gen.11:12,13
1658 0433 2126 0470. 0030 #13 Salah .........Gen.11:14,15
1723 0464 2187 0531. 0034 #14 Eber ......... Gen.11:16,17
1757 0239 1996 0340. 0030 #15 Peleg ......... Gen.11:18,19
1787 0239 2026 0393. 0032 #16 Rue .......... Gen.11:20,21
1819 0230 2049 0370. 0030 #17 Serug ........ Gen.11:22,23
1849 0148 1997 0393. 0029 #18 Nahor ........ Gen.11:24,25
1878 0205 2083 0427. 0030 #19 Terah ........Gen.11:32
2008 0175 2183 0527. 0075 #20 Abraham... Gen.12:4
Matt. 1:1-17; ________ 0427 Abraham gets the covenant.
__________________ 2083 is year after Adam.
Abraham age 86, has Ishmael year 2094 Gen.16:16;
Abraham age 100 has Isaac b. year 2108 Gen21:5; Shem dies year 2158.
Ishmael age 89, Isaac age 75, bury Abraham age 175, year 2183 Gen.25:7,9;
Eber dies year 2187. Ishmael age 137, dies year 2231 Gen.25:17;
Isaac age 180 dies year 2288 Gen.35:28,29; Isaac age 60, Jacob born, Gen.25:26; Jacob age 120, Isaac dies, Jacob age 130 Gen.47:9,11; 46:27;
In Rameses Egypt with 70 family menbers, year 2298, 215 years after year 2083 Abraham & covenant. Jacob dies age 147 Gen.47:28; year 2315.
Joseph 11th son of Jacob, age 30 to 110 is Governor of Egypt, dies year 2368
Gen.50:26; Ends Genesis. Joseph bones buried in Promised Land Josh.24:32, 185 years later.
Moses born year 2433, at age 80 Exodus 7:7; 12:37,40,41; 430 years after year 2083 Abraham & covenant, year 2513, Gal.3:16-18; Abraham's family has the law in 40 years, Deut.1:3; 29:5; 34:7; Moses dies year 2553, Joshua ends 40 years 14th day new year, year 2554, crosses Jordan. Judges 11:26; 300 years is year 2854 at Judge Jephthah. 1212 before Christ.
Samuel will live to age 100 1Sam.25:1; year 2883, David age 70 1Ki.2:10,11; year 3029, Solomon 1Ki.6:1; 480 years after Moses dies, he dies age 69, year 3069. 997 B. C. Now the ages do decline with few over age 70. Psm.90:10;

Answer 2

How is it possible for people to live that long? Is the Bible correct about this especially since that our lifespan now, even with technology, is around 70 to 80 years. There are two possible explanations for the longevity of the early people of Genesis. First, they were so close to the original genetic line of Adam and Eve, that there health was exceedingly great and so they could live this long. Second, it is noteworthy that the lifespan of people drastically shortens after Noah's ark. The theory is that there was a covering over the earth, a canopy of water vapor that helped shield the earth of harmful cosmic rays. The Bible tells us that the firmament opened up and it rained for 40 days, covering the earth. There is no biblical account of rain prior to this time. Therefore, some theologians believe that after the flood, after the rain fell and the atmosphere lost a lot of its protective qualities, then the lifespan humans was drastically shortened

Answer 3

I agree with Silver....if you consider that Adam and Eve were created perfect with no genetic defects and a pre-flood world with much less or no solar radiation, it's quite possible that people lived to be 900 years old back then. If you look at the ages of people after the flood, they only lived to be 400 years old or less so something changed in the conditions of the earth after the flood. Moses was actually 120 years old when he died...Deuteronomy 34:7 As genetic defects and diseases increased over time, life spans had gradually reduced until very recent times with the advent of modern medicine and dietary improvements. Ben Franklin lived to be 84 years old in an age when most people did not see their 40th birthday.

Answer 4

Science tells us its true. Bible speaks of a firmirment above us in the sky. That is a sheet of water or ice. Science (NASA) tells us ice chunks are still in our sky. Plus science proves ice at this temperature (coldness of space) would actually be magnetic and keep itself up against the earths gravity, just like 2 magnets repelling.

Then look again at science at what happens if you encapsulate the earth in a shield of ice. One you alter the sun rays, UV content, radiation levels. Well fossils show us animals (dino's) and plants were huge back then. Well of course as science states this firmirment would of made the earth like one big oxygen chamber. In turn creating the large plants, large animals.

As dino's are just reptiles. And reptiles never stop growing for their life. So if a snake can grow to be 60 ft in the Amazon today w/o the firmirment and it only lives say 100 yrs. Imagine how big that snake would be living under the firmirment aka oxygen chamber, and then living to be 500 yrs old. That would be ONE BIG SNAKE. Or easily what most call sea serpents, eh?

Now the same applies to man. Being in an oxygen chamber life, eating food and such grown in an oxygen chamber world, then man would be healthy, live a long life and live many years as well. Specially since there were no chemicals and such around as we have today. Just the cleanliness of the earth then to now, makes then "eden".

Now what happened to that firmirment you might ask? Well that is where the 40 days of rain comes in from Noah's flood and the Ark. And thats another story.

Answer 5

I am thinking that maybe the People who wrote that stuff might have counted Seasons as years. Maybe they considered there to be 5 seasons in one of our years. Would make more sense. Of course living 900 years is more feasible than a lot of the other stuff in the Bible.

Answer 6

Yes, there are people who really believe Moses lived as long as it says in the Bible.

Yes, it could have been possible. Science can't prove or disprove everything.

Answer 7

Moses leaved 120 years
After Ark of Noah the age decreased to 70-80 years only.
Psalm 90:10
he length of our days is seventy years—
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Answer 8

the genealogy in genesis 5 records the line of Godly descendants of adam – the line that would eventually produce the messiah. God possibly blessed this line with especially long life as a result of its Godliness and obedience. while this is a possible explanation, the bible nowhere specifically limits the long life-spans to the individuals mention in genesis chapter 5.

another factor to consider is that in the first few generations after creation, the human genetic code had not developed many defects. adam and eve were created perfect. they were surely highly resistant to diseases and illnesses. their descendants would have inherited these advantages, albeit to lesser degrees. over time, though, as a result of sin, the human genetic code became increasingly corrupted, and human beings became more and more susceptible to death and disease. this would have resulted in a drastically reduced lifespan.

Answer 9

hard to said, some bible scholar said is because of the Noah Flood that make our life expectancy a lot lower, also perhaps god punish mankind but short their life expect after the flood. But so far we still haven't found those human skeleton that lived that long.

Answer 10

people live in the bible for a long time and other nonsense for the same reason that in other books horses have human characteristics, etc. It's all fiction formed in the authors mind.

Answer 11

back in those days they didn't live by the yearly calender we do now... it was completely different and shorter I think it had something to do with the sun measurements... so his age of 900 wasn't 900 in todays aging =o)