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Christians: More Trickery?

Genesis 5:5 states that Adam lived over 900 years.

Genesis 5:8 states that Seth lived over 900 years.

Genesis 5:11 states that Enos lived over 900 years.

Genesis 5:14 states that Cainen lived over 900 years.

Genesis 5:17 states that Mahalaleel lived 895 years.

Genesis 5:20 states that Jared lived 962 years.

Can someone please explain to me how the f*ck this is possible?

Update:

I now see why there are ex-theists and theists. The difference is that the ex-theists have actually read their Bible. How can anyone believe in this horseshit? I'm laughing my a*s off reading through it.

Update 2:

Kawan 1 - when I'll get to that, I'll let you know.

Update 3:

2FollowHim - yes. Life expectancy has increased because health conditions have improved, and it looks like humanity will be capping off at about 100. Technology will be the only thing making us live 1,000 years. 1,000 years is absurd without science.

Update 4:

MO - does God refer to a different day/night cycle after the flood instead of the undefined one mentioned in Genesis 1?

Update 5:

Pamela - it does not say that God is doing this. It simply says that these guys are living that long.

Update 6:

wisecrack - Does the Bible assumes the world is 6000 years old, and do the dates of these guys living/dying flow logically with this account?

Update 7:

Kawan 1 - I skipped ahead just to read that (going to skip back). That has absolutely no relevance.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Bible was written by dogs

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Are you asking, or just laughing your *ss off? Because if it's all just

    a big *art, then why bother?

    I actually took sciences, lots of them, and don't have a problem.

    Because...why? It wasn't last week, or last year even, or even

    100 years ago.

    Weird to me is how people used to live about 65 years and now

    it edging up again, so now we're saying 90's, 100's...going back up.

    So, it's not 100 years ago, do I hear 1,000? No!

    It's at the beginning.

    Do you think water/air might have been a little different than

    the ugly mess it is today?

    All the little combinations going on in the air today with

    aerosols, car fumes, burning trash, cigarettes which

    can be smelled for about 20 feet at least the molecules

    are that heavy. Such garbage in the water, people sick

    all the time.

    They didn't have that then, the beginning.

    And that bible you Yuk up says it will happen again

    later and people will live again a long time.

    Fantasy for you, a myth ...but just because YOU don't see it,

    thus...not possible, can't exist.

    Now, that's a laugh.

  • 8 years ago

    The unlimited life span hack doesn't even scratch the top ten for nonsense in the bible my friend...I understand what your getting at, but in the huge picture it's irrelevant compared to everything else.

    Source(s): Talking snakes, wisdom apples, invulnerable burning plants, severed bodies of water, strength derived from long hair, man eating whales, and the king of them all- a world engulfing flood....
  • wren
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The earth was young and only had a few thousand population and this was all before The Flood.

    Afterwards it was different.....now God has allowed men to live for seven score years +, a mere whisper of time.

    Also, if you are lacking wisdom perhaps you should talk to God about it and rant to Him, about your "concerns"........If any lack wisdom, ask it of God and He will give it to you liberally...James 1:5..

    Source(s): ancient history
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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Some people think that they counted their time differently from us. It's a possibility.

    Mo

    Atheist

  • Pamela
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Your human understanding is interfering with your willingness to let God be God.

    As long as we demand that He behave only as we see fit - in ways we understand- we will never know Him for who He truly is.

    When we place limits on God - we are attempting to keep Him in a box of our own making. He can not be contained like that. He is too big:)

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Earth was not tipped on its orbit then. Weather was perfect. No pollution, no disease etc. You will see that after the Great Flood the years started going down.

  • 4 years ago

    Do you want me to PROVE to you why all athiests are wrong? INCLUDING YOURSELF??? guess what, teher is a eternal force found between electrons in space dumbass, what are you trying to accomplish. god was proven, and predicted the world at Revelations 8:3

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    if you would have lived 500 years ago you would not have being able to conceive of things like laptops or airplanes, and you would have laughed at those who do, just as you express your unbelief now and laugh at those who believe these things

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    People actually do believe those people lived that long, and people did not even know their exact date of birth, it was not important and not recorded. so they could stretch their ages as long as they desired.

  • 8 years ago

    Apparently they had a longer lifespan.

    Source(s): Less sin than we had or some s**t.
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