Posted on 02/26/2019 8:14:54 AM PST by Salvation
We don’t have much choice but to assume that the laws of physics and such have always be consistent, but the Big Bang Theory serious calls that assumption into question. The cop out is the idea that all the physics changed almost at once in prehistory. No reason that needs to be true.
He’s saying clearly that Genesis got it right, something that (according to you) Catholics can’t say. But it’s not enough to satisfy you.
He’s saying clearly that Genesis got it right, something that (according to you) Catholics can’t say. But it’s not enough to satisfy you.
just accept it as a mystery
Just curious; Do you think every parable Jesus spoke of actually happened, or do you think he made up stories in order to drive home a valid point?
I guess David REALLY didn’t make the cut.
And did he really build an ark the size of Latvia?
Just tossing this in for consideration. What was there after the flood that wasn’t there before the flood, something that could affect longevity?
Ans: direct solar irradiation. (maybe)
https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_738.cfm
Just tossing this in for consideration. What was there after the flood that wasn’t there before the flood, something that could affect longevity?
Ans: direct solar irradiation. (maybe)
https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_738.cfm
This is utter nonsense. They did not live to be over 900 years old.
Human DNA is human DNA. They did not live that long.
The Old Testament was never meant to be taken literally.
Noah did not take two of every one of the hundreds of millions of animal species and have them live on a small boat.
Jonah did not spend three days and three nights inside a whale.
The Old Testament is not meant to be taken literally.
Physics doesn’t change. Our written laws change as we gain a better understanding.
So you don’t beleive the Big Bang Theory is accurate?
Is the New Testament intended to be taken literally?
There is evidence that O2 levels back then were around 30% atmospheric total. That could explain the incredible longevity. And can we give it up for Abraham fathering a child in his 90’s?
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Antics with semantics.
Define ‘define’.
Pointless.
So it would seem. But you-know-who on this thread is forever scourging Catholics for not taking the Old Testament literally, and sooner or later the hierarchy was bound to push back somehow.
Psalms 90:10 - The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Had to be hard on the mother.
This tells us that the natural lifespan for a human from the beginning was nearly a millennium. This, in the absence of renewal.
Adam died only a few years before Noah was born, Noah’s father was in his fifties when Adam died. Abraham was a mature man when Noah died, and Noah’s son Shem (Abraham’s seventh-great-grandfather) outlived Abraham.
It looks like the original pure DNA allowed a very long life; as errors crept into the DNA (and particularly after the flood) the lifespan dropped radically.
God seems to say that, for people unmoored and alienated from God, nine hundred years is time enough to do a lot of damage. There is only so much mischief you can get into in 120 or 70 years. But natural man, with a cleansed DNA, walking with God and continuously renewed thereby, would have very long earthly lifespans. Maybe, he doesn’t die at all, the boundary between earthly life and heavenly life seems to be much less distinct in the Garden than what it was later. When things are as they were originally meant to be, maybe there is no veil.
It is notable to me that, within only a couple of generations of the flood, almost all of the horrors that existed before the flood were back. Which means that, while Noah was a man of God, his sons and their wives were not. So the “man of god”, the prophet and patriarch in the post-flood world is a rarity when it was intended from the beginning to be the norm.
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