A: Many people find it difficult to believe that Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches quite plainly that the early patriarchs often lived to be nearly 1,000 years old and even had children when they were several hundred years old! Similar claims of long life spans are found in the secular literature of several ancient cultures (including the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, and Chinese). But even a life span of nearly 1,000 years is sadly abbreviated when we consider that God initially created us to live forever.
According to the Bible, God created the first humans—Adam and Eve—without sin and with the ability to live forever. God gave the first human couple everything they needed for their eternal health and happiness in the Garden of Eden; but He warned them not to eat fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or they would die, as indeed would all their descendants after them (Genesis 2:16–17). When Satan’s deception prompted Eve to disobey this command and then Adam willfully disobeyed, their minds and bodies profoundly changed (Genesis 3). Not only did they become subject to death, but their firstborn child (Cain) became the world’s first murderer. Truly, the wages of sin is death, physically and spiritually. It is sobering to think that the Bible would have been only a few pages long—from creation to the fall into sin—were it not for the undeserved love of God who both promised and sent the Messiah to save us from sin and death (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 25:8; Psalm 49:14–15; 1 John 5:13).
For 1,500 years after creation, men lived such long lives that most were either contemporaries of the first man, Adam, or personally knew someone who was! The ten patriarchs (excluding Enoch) who preceded the Great Flood lived an average of 912 years. Lamech died the youngest at the age of 777, and Methuselah lived to be the oldest at 969.
To read more about the extrabiblical and biological evidence for long life spans, see Did People Like Adam and Noah Really Live over 900 Years of Age?
News to Note Quick Look
Growing a new germ: Has E. coli evolved in front of our very eyes? A recent report in New Scientist claims that it has—and is a poke in the eye for creationists. But when we take a look at the facts, is this actually the case? Or is this another example of the emperor trying on new clothes? Read more.
Time before time: Physicists in the U.S. have claimed we may be able to detect time before time: what existed before the fabled big bang. Read more.
Also: a dinosaur-like battle, spotting a unicorn, fishing for monkeys, and the missing Scandinavians. Read more.
Meet a Zonkey
If you have never met a zonkey before—or have never heard of one—then we have a special treat for you. During your visit to our Creation Museum (near Cincinnati, Ohio), be sure that you leave time for the brand new Petting Zoo. There you’ll discover an exciting mix of unique animals, including a camel, llamas, goats, a zonkey, and a zorse.
What is a zonkey? Quite simply, a zonkey is a cross between a donkey and a zebra—a cross that demonstrates the species that have arisen from the original created kinds. In similar fashion, a zorse is a zebra–horse mix. Now’s your chance to see both up close.
Find out more:
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Was this the Elder Wand you saught:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/dinosaur.htm
?
Dinotopia is not a fiction. Dinoglyfs and dinolits are not only literally described but even carved, hewn and painted all over the continents by the paleolithic man and even by the man of antiquities.
E.g. Beowulf is the oldest book written in the archaic English that still survives. Guess what? Its main figure is yet another dragon slayer, this time from our Nordic countries.
Dinoglyfs they are. Ever read the book of Job? That's Leviathan & Behemot, folks. The longest description of any animals in the whole Jewish Grammata. Besides the flying reptiles of as late a figure as Isaiah - the flying snakes were described also by the Greek father of history, Herodotos. In Mosaic law, there was also one species classified as both bird and a reptile:
Qetzalcoatl=tinshemet=liskolintu=Archaeopteryx=’old feather'?
Recovering from hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of the brain,
Pauli.Ojala@gmail.com
evolutionary critic
Biochemist, drop-out
(MSci-Master of Sciing)
Helsinki, Finland
I am not sure of everything that Ojalanpoika is trying to say but that may be due to the translation software. It sounds like to me he is agreeing with our stand and giving evidence that men and dinos lived together (which of course we believe). For more info. on this subject use the AIG link here on this blog. Thanks for the comment Pauli! -Rick
Dear Friend,
Right! People lived much longer before the flood. What was it about the flood that shortened human lives? You also talked about species that have arisen from the original created kinds. Like the sons of God (Job 1:6) that mated with the daughters of men. Because of this, God created the flood and shorten the lifespan of man to 120 years. Read it for yourself:
Genesis 6:1-7
1. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
The sons of God mating with humans? That's was it says. What do you say?
Keep up the good work.
I say I believe the "sons of God" referred to here are the godly Sethites so it is saved humans mting with unsaved humans which God still doesn't like (II Cor. 6). This caused the godly line to break down and soon most of the earth was corrupt causing the flood.
Thanks for your comments.
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