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1 | alloted days to live | Eccl 3:2 | Maearl | 168755 | ||
Genesis 6:3 is where we are told that humans should not exceed 120 years on earth, and I would intrepert it as 119 (to be on the safe side) so that we do not exceed our stay. | ||||||
2 | alloted days to live | Eccl 3:2 | BradK | 168757 | ||
Hi maearl, The body, as I understand it through science, claims that it can sustain 120 years or so. And, certainly, modern medicine has allowed man to live longer, but I don't know that scripture is so specific? I've always taken (maybe incorrectly) the passage in Gen. 6:3 as specifying the number of years that Noah preached- without sucess- until the flood. Here are a couple of observations from the commentators: 1. Commentary Critical says: "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive—Christ, as God, had by His Spirit inspiring Enoch, Noah, and perhaps other prophets (1 Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5; Jude 1:14), preached repentance to the antediluvians; but they were incorrigible. yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years—It is probable that the corruption of the world, which had now reached its height, had been long and gradually increasing, and this idea receives support from the long respite granted." 2. The Bible Knowledge Commentary says: "Genesis 6:1-4, then, describes how corrupt the world got when this violation was rampant. It is also a polemic against the pagan belief that giants (Nephilim; cf. Num. 13:32-33) and men of renown (Gen. 6:4) were of divine origin, and that immortality was achieved by immorality. The Canaanite cult (and most cults in the ancient Near East) included fertility rites involving sympathetic magic, based on the assumption that people are supernaturally affected through an object which represents them. Israel was warned to resist this because it was completely corrupt and erroneous. The passage, then, refutes pagan beliefs by declaring the truth. The sons of God were not divine; they were demon-controlled. Their marrying as many women as they wished (possibly this is the origin of harems) was to satisfy their baser instincts. They were just another low order of creatures, though powerful and demon-influenced. Children of these marriages, despite pagan ideas, were not god-kings. Though heroes and “men of renown,” they were flesh; and they died, in due course, like all members of the human race. When God judges the world—as He was about to—no giant, no deity, no human has any power against Him. God simply allots one’s days and brings his end." May this add to our discussion and understanding of this matter:-) BradK |
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3 | alloted days to live | Eccl 3:2 | Maearl | 168784 | ||
I just read several commentaries that said basically the same idea, so it comes down to one's interpretation. Maybe its possible that God meant both the length of years that a man should live and the length that he gave man to repent (and Noah had to build the ark), although I dont mean to sound so syncretic in my interpretations, I just want to make sure that I am not believing in a traditional reading of the text simply because thats how it has always been read, nor do I want to read into the text my own opinion simply to overturn all of the Biblical exegesis that has come before me. Although I could see someone argue that our limit of years should be 969 because that is how long Methuselah lived, I don't think this is how we should determine our longevity. It's obvious that a human body could not sustain phsyically that long, and even if modern science would allow us to, I am not sure if there is another passage that could possibly mention God's wishes for our longevity. Maybe I am wrong, (Or we are both right?) although I just recently heard a guest speaker say "We were made to last 120 years..." which I took indirectly as a reference to Genesis 6:3 and it wasnt even in a religious environment. I find this topic interesting because I am very much in favor of what humanitarian efforts modern science can do for fighting diseases, I wonder sometimes where we draw the line between respecting the temple of God (in this case, our bodies) and when we are worshipping it? I am in support of modern scientific research (as long as it doesnt take or harm someone else's life for the benefit of others) but where do we draw the line? Just a thought. God Bless, Maearl. | ||||||
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