Posted on 02/17/2017 7:30:35 AM PST by Salvation
maybe those were dog years?
Monsignor Pope Ping!
A lot of cultures when the Bible was written had stories about people with multi-century life spans.
I usually enjoy reading Pope’s stuff, but this - not so much...
He really got his money’s worth out of social security :)
Did Noah really live to be 950?Yes he did. And Methuselah really lived to be 969. The Masoretic text is not in error; to say it is is to call God a liar.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sadly, many do not see or hear “spiritually.”
God’s a liar.
This is an absurd article reasoning that somehow cell life spans and the rate at which they split was different only several thousand years ago to an ASTOUNDING level.
It’s a silly article and makes it harder for folk to take our religion seriously.
Why worry about it. Notice how the lifespan kept getting shorter and shorter, and shorter till now it is “three score and ten”. And most didn’t even make it that long till the invention of antibiotics.
Now those antibiotics are not working as they used to.
If God was not allowing antediluvian man such long lifespans, then Genesis 6:3 would have no context whatsoever.
Maybe it’s just a translation error.
Did Harry Potter really have a scar on his forhead? No. It's a story. It's not real.
Maybe they went from a lunar calendar (monthly) to a season calendar (solar, annual). I know the Jewish calendar is both lunar and solar. Maybe there was a switchover.
And, you have different authors over many centuries,
And, also, who would change the work of a prior written Scripture?
So let’s give Moses his 120 years, and Adam 930 months, which is 77 1/2 years.
Some people believe the change in the moisture levels in the atmosphere may have contributed to radiation damage to the chromosomes. Errors in the DNA code over time... except that the dramatic change occurs in the aftermath of the flood.
The implication is that 900 years is our natural lifespan were it not for whatever change was introduced into the genetic code at the time of the flood. Post flood, about eighty to a hundred.
Interesting article, Salvation. Thanks for the ping!
Msgr. Pope has, again, written a good think piece for us. Some will want to get ‘lost’ in the ‘literal’ vs ‘metaphor or allegory’ in believing the scripture he discusses, but that is not for me.
I think his closing sentence is excellent:
“How or even whether the patriarchs lived to such advanced ages is not clear, but what is theologically clear is that we don’t live that long today because of the collective effect of sin upon us.”
I sure am grateful YOU’RE around to give us the truth.
I mean, who else would think that God is wrong and call Him out on it to His face?
Tell me. What’s your source?
How do you know this?
Why should we trust YOU?
I’m guessing you aren’t even using your real name as a handle.
And we should trust for other information as well?
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