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1 | How long were years of Noah's life? | OT general | kalos | 10025 | ||
A year has never been anything but "the period of time...in which the earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days" (American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition, 1982, 1985, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston). | ||||||
2 | Thoughts? | OT general | Stultis the Fool | 126943 | ||
Does this definition consider forces that act against the earth allowing for orbital decay? Certainly the Earth's orbit does experience decay. Aditionally, some years ought, by biblical event, to be longer than others. Consider the events in 2 Kings 20:8 through 20:11, and also the events of Joshua 10:12 and 10:13. Thoughts? |
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3 | Thoughts? | OT general | DocTrinsograce | 127061 | ||
That would depend on whether these were purely phenomonological or truly chronological miracles. The language of the Bible is almost always phenomonological. Scripture offers no further explanation, so any thoughts would necessarily be speculative. | ||||||