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Diamond72

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Do you have a scripture reference for this?
The genealogy from Adam to Noah shows that people lived up to 1,000 years. Adam for example lived 970 years. Genesis 5 5

My reference was what we learn from science. Actually forensic science is pretty advanced. They find human remans and investigate it as a murder and then find out the remains are many thousands of years old. Do you watch those detective programs on TV?
 
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Do you watch those detective programs on TV?
No, not anything like what you mentioned. Haven't watched TV in a couple years since we canceled our cable, only YouTube, Amazon Prime and what's available on our Roku box.

I always kind of thought they aged, but much more slowly.
 
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Would love to hear your thoughts on what people have said. Have any of these responses cleared anything up for you? Or do you still have questions?
 
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I replied to this thread before. But I'll comment again, with a different approach. ...

They say truth is stranger than fiction. And by that I understand the saying to mean that real life has amazing ways in which something can be true, and one would never have guessed it.

My take on this is that "death" may have a different meaning. God told Adam and Eve about the tree, "you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” (Gen 2:17) This always bothered me because although Adam did eventually die, he didn't die on that particular day. The serpent (Satan) took advantage of this misunderstanding to imply that God had misspoke, because it was obvious that the snake had been eating, and clearly wasn't dead.

But perhaps it is more like a grapevine that is cut off at the base. The vine is as good as dead but the leaves wouldn't get the news and fall off for quite some time. And likewise, Adam and Eve were as good as dead when they were cut off from God's sustenance, though it would take some time for it to all work out.

So now let's look at the idea that there was no death before the Fall. The support for this is Rom 5:12 -- "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned" But isn't it quite possible that the "death" spoken of here is the same kind of death that Adam and Eve suffered in that day? I.e. ultimately cut off, but heart is still ticking, cells are still metabolizing, lungs are still breathing?

Words can have different meanings at different times, in the mouths of different people.


My take on this is that the depiction of the world in Genesis might be just that, a "depiction", and not the exact truth. If two people go to Disney World, and tell their friends about it, one might get two very different descriptions -- both leaving out vital information. Imagine trying to get together a bundle of words that are not so copious, length, and unwieldy such that they get lost to time, but accurate enough to describe the key elements of the matter. I think it would be difficult. Next consider the game of telephone, where each person gets a message, passes it to their neighbor, and everyone has a good laugh when the ending message is compared the original truth. So I likewise think that the key message of Genesis is that God made everything, mankind rebelled, consequences followed. But details regarding whether the stars were actually created on 4th day of creation, or just did the clouds clear so that the stars were visible, or is the sentence "He also made the stars" just an aside that refers to something done prior to the 4th day -- all these are interesting to think about. But I try not to get too upset when I can't give an exact answer. Honestly, it is often difficult to accurately discover what happened last week, so say nothing about last year, or thousands of years ago. It makes for interesting titles to scientific papers to confidently state what happened a million years ago. Sometimes they can be valid, but other times I'm a bit skeptical.

By the way, I proposed a different possibility for the age of the earth HERE as a variant to Gap theory. I think it is still consistent with what is written in the Bible, but allows for the scientific findings we see in the world around us. But it does require for death of animals etc to be occurring before the Fall.

Best wishes,

Kevin
 
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In the narrative context of the Garden of Eden account in Genesis, it seems to me to imply that entropy and death existed BEFORE Adam and Eve sinned.


So, yes, I think the narrative indicates death existed before the Fall.
 
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Well said. Today's winner.
 
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Their mortal eternal life was regenerated from the tree of Life in the Garden before the fall, and the tree is now guarded by Cheribum angels, the most powerful angels in the Garden, now closed to flesh utill the return of The Christ.

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I always kind of thought they aged, but much more slowly.
Science has never found the remains of anyone older than 30. We are told in the Bible they lived to be 1,000 but they do not look older than 30. So before Noah and the flood people must not have aged the way they do now. Cheddar man is a good example. We have an artistic impression of what he looked like and we also have a living relative.

 
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Science has never found the remains of anyone older than 30.
They've found neanderthals between 40-55 years of age. They didn't seem to live as long as anatomically modern humans.

Ramses II was 90 at his death. Lack of modern medical care and nutritional deficiencies made the average lifetime shorter for ancient man, but there's no evidence that our particular subspecies was intrinsically shorter-lived than people today.
 
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Lack of modern medical care and nutritional deficiencies made the average lifetime shorter for ancient man,
Actually there was a high mortality rate for children. A lot of the reason people are living longer now is because of the vaccine program 60 year ago. Even there was a president that had Polio. But it was rare they photographed him in his well chair. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

My brother has done medical missionary work in third world nations that still have a rate of childhood diseases. Of course we abort a lot of babies so maybe it is a trade off.
 
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neanderthals between 40-55 years of age.
Early development may also have necessary due to the early death of Neanderthals, with 85% of the species estimated to have died by the age of 40. But my OPINION is they did not age so they looked a lot younger. I have no science to back up that opinion. We do have the Bible that tells us people lived to be 1,000 years of age. Science does not dispute that it is possible for people to live that long.
 
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To me it seems like the logic goes as, In the garden was the Tree of Life, that gave eternal life to mortal beings. Through choice, the tree of life was lost by the tree of knowledge of good and evil, creating logical love. Choice now is in the hands of mankind, to save Himself through the power and will of the spirit that unites all mankind as one in being through the fulfilled eternal love in The Christ, the Body of God.

So perhaps, Through Adam and Eve, Logical love is created and through The New Adam, Jesus, Logical Love is fulfilled by the Power of the Shared Spirit will of God.

Peace always,
Stephen
 
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Actually there was a high mortality rate for children. A lot of the reason people are living longer now is because of the vaccine program 60 year ago.
Just a quick clarification for everyone. When talking about the AVERAGE lifespan, this includes the death rate of children. So if there was a plague that wiped out 50% of all children, that would reduce the average lifespan of the community -- even though it did nothing to the longevity of adults. There is a difference between expected length of life between an infant just born, who might expect to live an average of 60 yrs, and a woman who has already made it to age 50, and thereby can well expect to live an average 20-30 more years (I'm making these numbers up for examples).

At this actuarial site US social securty actual life tables at age 0, the life expectancy is 79 yrs more years. And at age 79 yrs, the life expectancy is 10 more years.
 
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That is interesting. Can you give me a reference for this?
It is a little bit hidden but plain enough for me to see we are headed in that direction.

Isaiah 65:20 “Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

People die early but it is God's plan for them to live out their years.
 
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Interesting that death begins when the thymus gland starts deteriorating, right around 3 months old, then accelerates after puberty.

Research shows it's important in adulthood as well.
 
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Peace to all,

To me, Through the Power of the Spirit will, life is more abundant on earth and becomes through the same Divine Spirit in the being, confirmed and regerated becomming transfigured into image of the Creator, God, The Father in Heaven.

To me, the logic is a more abundant life on earth, perhaps longer in span as mortal in His will and then to become glorified immortal forever.

Peace always,
Stephen
 
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This is interesting. One would think that when predicting the future, it would be that people are going to live forever. So I wonder what time Isaiah was talking about. I know you said that you see that as being during the millennium.
Thanks
KT
 
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This is interesting. One would think that when predicting the future, it would be that people are going to live forever. So I wonder what time Isaiah was talking about. I know you said that you see that as being during the millennium. Thanks KT
Revelation 21 we are talking about a New Heaven and a New Earth. This is at the end of the 1,000 year reign of Christ.
 
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