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NASB | Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. [Heb 9:27] |
Subject: alloted days to live |
Bible Note: 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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