Age...

[backward in time]

Ive been thinking about this .....
Back in the old testement you get people who lived to be hundreds of years old. Now in our day and age your lucky if you reach the age of 100....most people just dont live that long...
So why in Do people have such short lives now? is it because we are not as close to God as the people in the old testement were?

Backward in time

 

[Bulldog]

God said somewhere in the Bible that he had limited our lifespans to 120 years. There's probably somone here who knows the exact reference.

 

[Warrior Poet]

I think that the enviroment and things that our body's are no subject to ages us much quicker then back then. Smog, smoking, fast food, everything in excess, in todays world what we put in our bodies matters more then ever, yet we still, for the most part, put in junk. Back then they lacked many of the modern pollutants that have such a big affect on us today.

Warrior Poet

 

[Philip]

God said somewhere in the Bible that he had limited our lifespans to 120 years. There's probably somone here who knows the exact reference.

Genesis 6:3 is the verse, but that is not what it means. It is a statement that God would destroy the world with a flood in 120 years.

 

[Enkidu]

I think that the enviroment and things that our body's are no subject to ages us much quicker then back then. Smog, smoking, fast food, everything in excess, in todays world what we put in our bodies matters more then ever, yet we still, for the most part, put in junk. Back then they lacked many of the modern pollutants that have such a big affect on us today.

Warrior Poet

Check the stats.... Our lifespan has increased significantly over the past hundred or so years mainly because of health advances and knowledge. (Average age in 1840... males 42, females 48. Average age in 2004... males 76, females 84... sciencemag.org) but yes nothing like Biblical persons of up to 960 years. Maybe genetic... maybe a time anomaly.

Thanks Philip for dismissing the 120 year cap. Noah and his sons lived much, much longer after this often misquoted edict was given.

Glory to Jehovah Elohim. Glory to Jesus. May the Counselor fill your hearts.

 

[Meow]

pollution, genetics, stress.

 

[California Dreamin']

I remember that!

God said somewhere in the Bible that he had limited our lifespans to 120 years. There's probably somone here who knows the exact reference.

 

[eclipsoul]

Perhaps the bible isn't intended to be read literally. If it was, then when Jesus says, "resist not injury", we'd all have to be pacifists...

like me.

 

[Chaucer]

In a number of places in the world (I myself having lived close to such a place in South America) where there are plenty of people who live in excess of 120 years, according to local tradition - until you study it in depth and find our that poor recording keeping, faulty memory, and exaggeration are the main drivers of advanced age.

Would it have been all that different anciently?