So why don't we live several hundred of years like those before the flood.?

Question

I found this.
Although God created the earth perfectly, it soon brought destruction upon itself with the onset of human sin (Romans 5:12). Before the Flood in Genesis chapter 7 that wiped out almost all living things on the earth, people had the potential to live for several hundred years.

After the Flood, human life spans grew progressively shorter, indicating a change in the environment which resulted in damage to the human genetic structure. This also explains why incest was necessary for the population of the earth in Genesis, but was forbidden later in the laws of Leviticus (verses 18:6-18).

Answer 1

People lived shorter lives in the past. It is only through medicine and other technologies that we have been able to break the centennial mark.



And the global flood is a myth (unoriginal at that).

Answer 2

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said everything we hear (or read) is opinion, not fact.

So, it is my opinion that the bible, although having hidden messages, isn't totally accurate in the small areas. The need for incest to populate the earth could very well be an explanation.

However, there could be another explanation.



Artifacts from the Palaeolithic suggest that the moon was used to calculate time as early as 12,000, and possibly even 30,000 BP.[10]



The Sumerian civilization of approximately 2000 BC introduced the sexagesimal system based on the number 60. 60 seconds in a minute,[citation needed] 60 minutes in an hour[citation needed] – and possibly a calendar with 360 (60x6) days in a year (the original yearly cycle of earths orbit prior to 1495 BC).[citation needed] Twelve also features prominently, with roughly 12 hours of day and 12 of night, and 12 months in a year (with 12 being 1/5 of 60).



So taking that into consideration, maybe the people of the times when the story of the flood and after were using a different method of tracking time and determining age. Who knows.

Answer 3

The primary reason, naturally speaking, is because before the flood, the earth was surrounding by water in space, which acted like a green house. Everything grew larger and longer. Scientists have also discovered recently, a massive palm leaf, one of the biggest ever recorded, in the "No Green Zone" in the arctic circle. It was called the "No Green Zone" because of all the ice, nothing "Green" ever grew there, or so they thought.



Scientists have also discovered that mankind was normally over 12 feet tall, as the norm. Because the water around the earth acted as a barrier of radiation, etc., everything was alot healthier. Then when the flood came, scripture says God opened up the heavens and water poured forth, flooding the earth. The result was no more "Green House Effect" that protected the earth from the harmful rays of the sun.

Answer 4

Been examining the Pentateuch, have not you? the 1st 5 books of the Bible' the "Books of Moses" incorporate distinctive innovations relating to the a while of persons who lived for numerous hundred years. do no longer make the errors of assuming the Bible is entirely telling us how long somebody lived. If it became into, there must be a reason. there's a reason of course, although that's no longer purely to offer us a selection. I propose, what is going to we earnings - somewhat - from understanding the suitable age to which they lived? the respond isn't something, different than the reality they lived unnaturally long lives. the suitable age to which they lived isn't very nearly as significant because of the fact the certainty that those human beings have been touched by capacity of God, and given some variety of Divinely bestowed upon capacity/authority which that they had over their contemporaries. What greater useful way for God to teach that a given individual became into the God-appointed chief than to offer them unnaturally long existence-spans? we don't understand their suitable a while, or how long they lives. yet we do understand that they could no longer have acheived their freakishly long existence-span if no longer for the direct help/intervention of a better capacity.

Answer 5

Moses described it as Manna in the Desert ... I have since found that the closest equiv now is the Sorcerer's Stone and I have found out how to make it. An alchemist friend up the street has a book on it and I'm hoping to get $30 soon to buy it. HE swears by it and it may be working since he is 90 years old.



There are a few other tricks up my sleeve but I have to investigate those first before I make my pronouncements.



My answer = The Sorcerer's Stone! ST Germain seemed to agree with that and since he was spotted from 1400 to 1932 he may be right.



I AM

Dartagnon

Answer 6

No problem with genetic structure and marriage to expand the families was only temporary situation in horrible and necessary conditions. God would not make our DNA pay for situations that were required to keep humanity going. However, you missed the point of who can marry whom. Deals with the depravity of the animal soul of humanity--"funny" uncles aren't funny. A brother-in-law hitting on his new sister-in-law is horrible. A step-father liking his step-daughter too well, etc. is still going on. Forbidden relationships had to do with man's inhumanity to his own family and extended family and not genetics. However, the flood was. The people mixed human and animal DNA to make creatures beyond that of anything we are doing today, at least I pray people aren't. With making frogs and fish that glow in the dark is scary, as well as the cloning of pets, or people? I couldn't stand my baby sister, thinking someone would want to make another like her, I help the couple that gets her. Well, I've over that, think environment & life experiences have a deeper effect on how a person comes out in the end as to his or her moral & ethical code and not all genes.



As for the age factor--God saw that the people had too much time on their hands, and too much time in planning nonsense, like the Tower of Babel, thus, age took a plunge south after the people wanted to "reach" the outer limits. They minds became the instrument of their own downfall. We have this today--people planning and changing DNA so they can live longer--is that really in God's plan? Do we really want to live to see our great great grandchildren? Do we really want to live 100s of years with the knowledge we made a decision that changed our careers or lives or ruined another person's life when 20, and have to keep reliving the same mistakes over and over? I don't think so. Our Godly soul might be immortal and partakes of Hashem, but I would rather give a few years of mine to another, like when I lost my own best friend a few weeks ago to ovarian cancer. It is said that Adam only lived to 930--after he was shown the history of the world from God--as he gave 70 of his years to King David. If such was the case, I think King David was able to accomplish more from the selfless gift made by Adam whom we seem to blame for everything. Adam might not have done much more than he did in the 930 years he had, but his gift of life to King David was a blessing for us all.



We always do not know why the good comes out bad and sometimes the bad ends up looking good, but in the end, God's Voice still rings out clear when everything else seems so surreal, there is a reason for so much, perhaps we seem to look for the complicated answer, when a simple one does the trick.

Answer 7

I think that there is a reason to believe there was a canopy. So the Canopy Theory seems to me to be a likely theory which would explain several things. Like Noah founding out how grape juice fermented, and people living a shorter mount of time, and the Nazca lines, possibly being a way the ancients used to reflect images onto the sly at the time.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines

Answer 8

Potential reasons:

- A shorter lifespan indicates a shorter amount of sin for sin.

- The generations from Adam and Eve to Noah in the Ark were fairly small, so the original knowledge of Paradise & God was passed down almost first-hand from the Ancestors of the human race due to their increased lifespans



All the genetics/other speculations - I have no idea.

Answer 9

during those times, people did not use any calendars to measure time and age. thousands of years before our own calendar was created, an unknown person dressed in reindeer skins and clutching an eagle bone gazed at the sky and got an idea to use the moon to measure time.



many different calendars have been developed over the millennia to help people organise their lives. according to a recent estimate, there are about forty calendars used in the world today, particularly for determining religious dates. most modern countries use the Gregorian calendar for their official activities.



when historians calculated the age of Moses, he was believed to have lived to 120 years. considering the earth was not polluted at that time it's still not long.



humans changed after paradise closed -- not just the rapid changes to what we would call civilisation, but also the gradual achievement of a subjective consciousness. the response to this event determined how we became fully human. to say it would have happened anyway does not hold up. there could have been any number of other outcomes.



the last 1000 years of this period (4200 BC to 3100 BC) was remembered as the "Age of the Gods" and subsequent human history has been a singular effort to regain the paradise of that time. this period was followed by a series of adjustments in planetary orbits, many of which also had significant effects on earth and on human history.



we survived the last externally induced extinction events which removed eight competing sub-species over the course of the last three million years. our only contribution to our distinction from other animals was the invention, 40,000 years ago, of language and its subsequent cultural transmission. that set the stage for further development of our 'humanity,' much later on and much closer to our time.



i've studied ancient history and biology at the Sorbonne and i still remember this subject matter as i was so intrigued by the Bible's historical events.

Answer 10

Great question. I wondered that myself. Romeo and Juliet, in those times you had to be married at 12 to 15, or else you were considered to be an old maid. Because you only lived to be 35 if you were lucky.

All the people in the early old testament lived to be hundreds, and a few were over 1000 years old. Suddenly it stopped.

Answer 11

don't you think that if there was such a massive flood that it killed every living being, there would be SOME evidence of that? And, tell me, where did this water come from and where did it go? Wouldn't there be much more lakes now if it had ever happened? And why is there a water shortage?

Answer 12

"We do, today more than ever before we have many gods, which has been prophesied!"



Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and "they served other gods."



Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which "your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt;" and serve ye the LORD.



Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, "choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:" but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Answer 13

God limited human age after the flood.

Answer 14

Lies. That's all I can say.



We also would have only lived an average of thirty five years, about a hundred years ago. With all of the modern medicines and such, it's still rare that we even live to see 90. I'll never believe we have/had the potential to live that long.

Answer 15

If you're going to use the Bible as fact, ie: the flood was an actual event, there is no answer that will satisfy you unless it is considered to be of the Bible... so asking the question makes no sense, you already have your answer......

Answer 16

It's quite possible the ages of Methuselah and others listed in hundreds of years were exaggerated slightly for effect.

Answer 17

Because the sin and corruption of man is great upon the earth and that is why we need the Savior Jesus Christ.

Answer 18

Well, since i'm a Dragon and over 5000 years old i don't see how this pertains to me.

Answer 19

im a very positive person

i really am

i could not even brgin to IMAGINE having to spend hundreds of years on this planet in one lifetime((ugh))

least of all now

LOL

im ready to ascend

Answer 20

Genesis 6:3

Now it came about that when men started to grow in numbers on the surface of the ground and daughters were born to them, 2 then the sons of the [true] God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose.



3 After that Jehovah said: “My spirit shall not act toward man indefinitely in that he is also flesh. Accordingly his days shall amount to a hundred and twenty years.”



When man was created, he was made in God’s image, according to his likeness. (Ge 1:26, 27) This, of course, did not mean physical image or appearance, for God is a Spirit, and man is flesh. (Ge 6:3; Joh 4:24) It meant that man, different from the “unreasoning animals” (2Pe 2:12), had reasoning power; he had attributes like those of God, such as love, a sense of justice, wisdom, and power. (Compare Col 3:10.) He had the ability to understand why he existed and his Creator’s purpose toward him. Hence he, unlike the animals, was given the capacity for spirituality. He could appreciate and worship his Creator. This capacity created a need in Adam. He needed more than literal food; he had to have spiritual sustenance; his spirituality had to be exercised for his mental and physical welfare.

Consequently, apart from Jehovah God and his spiritual provisions there can be no indefinite continuance of life. As to living forever, Jesus said: “This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”—Joh 17:3.

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How does a person get his name permanently retained in “the book of life”?



For those who are in line to receive heavenly life, it is by ‘conquering’ this world through faith, proving themselves “faithful even to death.” (Re 2:10; 3:5) For those who are in line to receive life on earth, it is by proving loyal to Jehovah through a final, decisive test at the end of Christ’s Millennial Reign. (Re 20:7, 8) Those who maintain integrity through that final test will have their names retained permanently by God in “the book of life,” Jehovah thus acknowledging that they are righteous in the complete sense and worthy of the right to everlasting life on earth.—Ro 8:33.

Answer 21

Maybe they knew a secret we don't? Besides would you really want to? I wouldn't. That's a little too much for me to handle.

Answer 22

Because we are not fictional characters made up by an ancient schizophrenic Jew.

Answer 23

just watch Water World. it will explain everything you want to know.

Answer 24

They didn't the bible is myth, lies.

PS the flood is fiction too, there has never been a world wide flood.