Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. (Psalms 102:13-14 KJV)
How long does man live. Genesis 6:3 says 120 years but Psalm 90:10 says 70 years; yet in Genesis 11 we see that people lived hundreds of years.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 1:7 KJV)
According to other verses like Psalm 90:10, man has a different lifespan. But Genesis 6:3 probably uses a calendar that doubles the years from 60 to 120. The ancient Mesopotamians had only two seasons: summer and winter, and the average person would’ve easily counted them as years. The Mesopotamian year was originally shorter than 12 months, eventually evolving.
Atheists claim that there is no evidence for God, and agnostics claim that the evidence is not sufficient. The Bible reveals the secrets of men’s hearts to show that atheists and agnostics are deceiving themselves.
“I am confused about some of the numbers found in Genesis 5-7. What exactly does the 120 years refer to in Genesis 6:3? I’ve heard some say that it refers to the limit of one’s lifespan on Earth, but that can’t be true because people lived longer than 120 years after the Flood. I also don’t understand how, as some have concluded, it could refer to there only being 120 years left before God flooded the Earth. That seems impossible since Noah was 500+ years old when he learned about the Flood (Genesis 5:32-6:13), and the Flood occurred when he was 600 (Genesis 7:6). It seems that either the 120 years does not refer to the time just before the Flood or the “120 years” should have been “100 years” (otherwise the Flood would have come in the 620th year of Noah and not the 600th year). Can you help explain this conundrum?”
In rejecting God and promoting life as a product of blind evolution, Darwin was sinning against his own conscience and he suffered greatly for it. He was afraid of being branded “the Devil’s chaplain.” He was “destitute of faith, yet terrified at scepticism” (Desmond, Darwin, p. 268). “When Darwin did come out of his closet and bare his soul to a friend, he used a telling expression. He said it was ‘like confessing a murder’” (Desmond, p. xviii).
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My question is this. In Gen 6:3, God said, my spirit shall not remain in man for ever and his days shall be 120 years. However, The age of man extended far beyond 120 years after the flood, as Arphaxad lived 403 years.
If God shortened the life of man to 120 years, how therefore could anyone after the flood have lived beyond this? This seems contradictory?
His heavenly kingdom. (2 Timothy 4:18)
Genesis 5:32 says that Noah was 500 when he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth – Gen 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
In the 1980s, Jack Hyles and Curtis Hutson changed the historic Baptist definition of repentance. I suspect that the motive was to justify the cheap, numbers-oriented soul winning methodology that was popular in that day. This was the methodology that was foundational to Big-ism with its emphasis on “the largest … the fastest growing… the greatest.”
Genesis 5:32 says that Noah was 500 when he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis 7:11 says that the Flood started in Noah’s 600th year. Genesis 8:13 says the Flood waters completely receded in Noah’s 601st year (around 10 and a half months after it started). And Genesis 11:10 says that Shem begat Arphaxad two years after the Flood when he was 100 years old. Now, the math doesn’t add up because if the Flood ended in Noah’s 601st year, Shem should have been 103 (or 102 if the beginning of the Flood is counted though that’s unlikely).
Scientists are recognizing the similarities between the workings of the DNA code and computer science. DNA is, after all, a complex information storage system. But comparing DNA as an information storage system to our largest and fastest computers is like comparing the Space Shuttle with a bow and arrow.
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. (Genesis 5:24 KJV)
Aerodynamics, the science of flight, is a highly complex science. This is because many complex forces are acting on anything in flight. These forces include the power available for flight and drag produced by the flying object. Each of these categories includes many additional forces that depend on the shape of the flying object, the shape and length of the wings, the speed and the altitude. This is why, for example, high altitude planes have very long wings.