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1 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Edd | 133387 | ||
What is life expectancy for humanity in number of years according to God’s word? | ||||||
2 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 133419 | ||
You ask why is the life expectancy of Americans low. Compared to what? The mortality tables list 77.2 years as the average life expectancy for persons living in the United States. By comparison, it is 37.8 in Zimbabwe. There are no mortality tables as such in the Bible, although life spans tended to be remarkably long (by present-day standards) in Old Testament times, especially from creation to Noah's flood. The Bible does not guarantee a given number of years for a person's life on earth. It does, however, promise eternal life to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. See John 3:16. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Edd | 133443 | ||
You asked "in comparison to what" my response are; compared to the 120 years indicate in the Bible book of Genesis 6:3. And no we are not discussing a guaranteed promise life of 120 years on earth: but God has said the maximal amount of expectant years of life on earth is set at 120 for humanity. Why is life expectancy for American is 76.9 years, when God has clearly stated 120 years? | ||||||
4 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | kalos | 133457 | ||
Actually Genesis 6:3 does not say that God would not allow man to live more than 120 years. This is what it says: So the Lord said, “My spirit will not remain in mankind indefinitely since they are mortal. They will remain for one hundred and twenty more years.”[11] Genesis 6:3 NET BIBLE [Footnote 11] Translators' Note. 'Heb “his days will be one hundred and twenty years.” Some interpret this to mean that the age expectancy of people from this point on would be one hundred twenty, but neither the subsequent narrative nor reality favors this. It is more likely that this refers to the time remaining between this announcement of judgment and the coming of the flood.' ____________________ www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm |
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5 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Edd | 133500 | ||
"Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and STRIVE WITH MAN, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years:" Genesis 6:3. I can’t agree with your "Some interpretation" or analogy of scripture. Simply put, it’s obvious to most born again Christian believer that God’s spirit is yet striving with mankind many years after the great flood of Noah’s days. Therefore the scripture could not have possibly meant 120 years preceded the flood Noah’s generation. Furthermore, according to the bible Noah was already 600 years old at the time of the flood and lived on to see the ripe old age of 950 years old. God blessed Noah and his family. Do the math Noah lived 350 more years after the flood. I really don’t understand how some have arrived at an awkward biblical conclusion regarding the meaning of"God striving with mankind for 120 years." | ||||||
6 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 133524 | ||
Edd, even so the Spirit strives with man still, this does not negate the interpretation of Genesis 6:3 to mean that God set a time limit on calling the people to repentance before He brought Noah's Flood to destroy all human life except Noah and his family. The context of the passage unambiguously supports the "one hundred and twenty years" to be the span of time until the Flood during which God gave man opportunity to respond to the warning that His Spirit would not strive with man forever. Compare 1 Peter 3:20 in which Peter speaks of the patience of God being kept waiting in the days of Noah during the construction of the ark. The 120 years was not a promise of man's longevity then and it is not one now. Its application was not to life expectancy then nor is it now. It referred solely to the time that God would allow to elapse before sending the Flood, and the application of this verse is therefore limited to this specific time in history and to the conditions that existed at that time. To use this verse as a promise for all time of a 120-year human lifespan is not good exegesis by any measure, including the basic fact that it doesn't square with reality, because rarely has any man lived to be 120 years since ancient times. The verse does not suggest any reason whatever to develop a general principle from a specific event. And this verse, like all other verses, is better understood when one reads it for what it actually says and avoids reading into it what one may wish it to mean. --Hank | ||||||
7 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Edd | 133602 | ||
"Please read what it actually says to avoid reading into it what one may wish it to mean." Gen 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen 6:3 Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not forever dwell and strive with man, for he also is flesh; but his days shall yet be 120 years. Gen 7:6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth or land. Gen 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood 350 years And do a little math because it’s an exact science. |
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8 | Why is life expectancy for Americans low | Gen 6:3 | Hank | 133608 | ||
Edd, sorry, but I have no earthly idea what you're talking about. --Hank | ||||||