[Why did people live almost a thousand years in the early Bible stories?]
Before the flood people were made in a different way. They were much more spiritual then physical. This changed when people started lusting after their desires then the physical became stronger then the physical and the nature of physicality is that it decays. This went on gradually and after bearing the sins of mankind for over 1500 years G-d decided to give them a limit of 120 years. In psalms 90 we see that mankind had deteriorated to a span of 70 years and if with power till 80.
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Is this similar to the change G-d made in Eve's anatomy after the Fall, to make her have pain during childbirth? Claiming that G-d changed people at any point means that he made mistakes in his first design, since G-d knows the future and knew that people would sin/start lusting after their desires/whatever. The question then becomes if G-d could change people then, why he doesn't do it now, to eliminate diseases such as cancer?
Hold on, I thought the flood only happened because people were bad and the god characters decided to eliminate all except a select few good ones? This was supposed to be some sort of a clean-up operation, no?
Are you trying to suggest this was a royal screw-up and he accidentally picked the wrong band of survivors? Did they all turn bad as a result of flood-induced, hereditary PTSD?
This doesn't make much sense at all.
@ DarkPhoenix
It isn't that recent, at least if you count the span of recorded history. What's recent is people on average living to be 70 or 80; beforehand, there was a very high chance of dying in the first five years of life. But for those that made it to the age of five, the chances of living to be 70 were fairly good.
Ya know, we do have at least a rough estimate of the population, and population growth, of around that time, right? Wouldn't they be way higher than they are, if people were routinely living for hundreds and hundreds of years?
G-d decided to give them a limit of 120 years
Jeanne Calment, France: 12[i]2[/i] years, 164 days.
we see that mankind had deteriorated to a span of 70 years and if with power till 80
Professor Stephen Hawking was told decades ago that he would die only a few years later after he'd been affected with ALS. He's 75. By your definition, he's gone way beyond that.
Therefore, either (check one):
[ ] Someone's fucked up
[ ] Your religion's writings are purely fairytales written by men who certainly didn't live to Prof. Hawking's age (PROTIP: Sir Isaac Newton: 84 ), and someone has still fucked up
Choose wisely.
[Why did people live almost a thousand years in the early Bible stories?]
OhhUhnn ohh, I know Mr Kotter! It's bullshit!
@Hasan Prishtina
@ DarkPhoenix
80 would be an age where the whole village and surrounding trade burrows would see you as ancient, You'd be ancient, beyond three generations to most which would be mostly unknown. This is the beginning of the thousand year old or magician or even vampire tales. This is also the beginning of elder wisdom that counts, especially if many generations of a family live to pass on that knowledge.
As you can tell by my output here, I never knew my grampas, still smarter then long lived fundies though.
@Canadiest ,@Hasan Prishtina, @DarkPhoenix
Even well fed nobles still had relatively short lifespans compared to what we enjoy today. While some were lucky to make it to 70 / 80. The majority of nobles still died young from diseases and injuries that are entirely negligible today with modern medicine. Remember that without the benefits of the modern era disease and injury were considerably more likely. These were people who often didn't have clean water, no sanitation, and none of the basic first aid education we take for granted today. Remember it was only relatively recently that the idea of performing operations in sterile clean environments was understood.
In the era the bible describes, even tribe leaders / nobles etc found living past 30 an achievement.
Confused?
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