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Thanks for reading through it. It's the word the word the word in great volume that the Holy Spirit can use to open our eye's to what the word is teaching. Do you see what I meant though about the doctrine of a "second" coming? That if you had not accepted a teaching that said anytime the Bible speaks of the coming of the Lord it was talking about a one time event at the end of the world called the "second" coming. You would never have thought those scriptures I listed at first could mean that some of those people from back then were alive today.That is a interesting a a good rebuttal to my original comment, however I see now why people may have questioned if this was preterist or not. Personally I am weak in eschatology, I guess I'd call myself a mid-tribulational rapturist if anything.
So I cannot debate you effectively enough to increase my understanding or your own. Suffice it enough to say that I do take those scriptures in the original post as literal, and I have no problem with believing people could be alive for 2,000 years.
The genealogy from Adam to Noah in the Old Testament says people lived for hundreds of years so I have no problem believing people could live for 2,000 years especially if Christ told them directly they would live until He returned.
Nevertheless, I like the thread it is an interesting topic.
On the other hand if you had accepted or been taught the proper scriptural view of the coming of the Lord. That the doctrine of the coming of the Lord is about the times and seasons that the Lord literally comes to earth to oversee judgment and fulfill promise. And that there are multiple times in scripture when the Lord comes. Then we might be arguing about which time and season, or which end time event certain prophecies apply to. Some people would be very suprised based on the hundred chapters of prophecy about an age of promise, earthly promise that is. That we may not be argueing that much about what prophecies might be talikng about the end of the world.
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