Don't forget the water canopy, filtered out all those nasty rays! Hence men did not live so long after the flood.That little gem came from a talk on the flood a few years ago.
George
No historical evidence for bronze age men living to 500yrs old?
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Half banana
Lieu, Abraham and Moses never lived except in myth. -
Half banana
People in stories who have names which describe what they do or did demonstrate the point that they are made up. Abraham = father of the multitudes.
Abraham probably represented an archetype, a mythical founding father, to explain the foreign settlers who came to Canaan. Archaeology shows that dispossessed and homeless bands of pastoralists from Assyria and from the and south-east, did arrive there around 1600 BCE. They are recorded as the Ebiru on contemporary stone inscriptions. In Egyptian texts at about 1300 BCE the Habiru are recorded as semi-nomadic pastoralists who settled in Canaan.
Most of the OT was written by Jews (a name used only after the exile from Babylon) usually copying foreign sources, in an attempt to write a rosy account of their truly impoverished history.
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TheOldHippie
Could not a man whose body was far more perfect than ours, be estimated by researchers today to have died at the age of 40, whereas in reality he was 736? How would the bones of a close-to-perfect man, Bible style, age - and would not his body be judged by today's researchers based on how bone decay and structure is today? -
Half banana
There are no such people with bodies "far more perfect than ours". Except in myth. -
cofty
How would the bones of a close-to-perfect man, - Old Hippy
What is a "perfect man" exactly?
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James Mixon
See, the thing is that evolution just wants you to live long enough to pass on your genes in
greater abundance than your competition...within and beyond your own species. Once
you have kids that are themselves viable to pass on their own genes, nature doesn't care
about your existential against about death. You were made from dust, so hurry up and turn
back into dust again so it can fertilize a bush your ancestors can eat delicious berries from..
I like this guy and his outlook on life...LOL
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MarkofCane
Methuselah "Man of the dart/spear", is the man reported to have lived the longest at the age of 969 in the Hebrew Bible.[2] Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of Cheshvan, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah.
I could never believe this no matter how hard I tried. Their made up stories never any proof just more of the same....need to have faith!
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JW_Rogue
Historical evidence? The bible clearly states at 2 Tim 3:16 that every word is inspired and true. What other evidence do you need? -
Finkelstein
Funny is it that the time of the writing of the bible texts (Genesis, Exodus) coincides in time wise or era to the Egyptian civilization and no ancient Egyptian lived to 700 years mmmmm ???