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1 | WHEN DID GOD CHANGE LIFESPAN OF MAN? | Bible general Archive 1 | debbie5 | 14348 | ||
WHERE IN THE BIBLE DID GOD CHANGE THE LIFESPAN OF MAN? | ||||||
2 | WHEN DID GOD CHANGE LIFESPAN OF MAN? | Bible general Archive 1 | There | 14855 | ||
Some of the main characters mentioned pre-Flood lived anywhere from 365 years to 969 years. Noah was 600 at the time of the flood, and 601 when the Flood subsided. He lived another 350 years, so was 951 at his death. Shem lived to be 600 years old (about 500 years after the Flood. His son, grandson, and greatgrandson lived to be 430 to 460 years old. The next three generations lived into their 230's. And down through a couple more generations to Abraham who lived to be 175 years. It would seem that pre-Flood people were vegetarians. God didn't tell anyone to "eat meat" until after the Flood. Adam was told that the ground would be cursed and he would "eat the herb of the field" using his own hard labor, and Noah was told to bring "all food that is eaten" for himself and the animals ("it shall be food for you and for them"). Seems probable that meat eating was not done yet. It wasn't until after the Flood in Genesis 9:3 that God told Noah "every moving thing that lives shall be food for you... even as the green herbs". This change in diet may have been the means of shortening a man's life, along with less idealic atmospheric conditions. Another note, animals were friendly pre-Flood. After the Flood God told Noah "and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth... " which was a good thing since man was now given permission to eat them! |
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