How Old Were The Patriarchs?

[MorphRC]

[font="Times"][color=red][b]How Old Were the Patriarchs?[/b][/color][/font]
[b]ADAM[/b] 930 years (Gen. 5:5)
[b]SETH[/b] 912 years (Gen. 5:8)
[b]ENOSH[/b] 905 years (Gen. 5:11)
[b]ENOCH[/b] 365 years (Gen. 5:23)
[b]METHUSELAH[/b] 969 years (Gen. 5:27)
[b]LAMECH[/b] 777 years (Gen. 5:31)
[b]NOAH[/b] 950 years (Gen. 9:29)

[b]The Flood[/b]

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[b]SHEM[/b] 600 years (Gen. 11:10, 11)
[b]EBER[/b] 464 years (Gen. 11:16, 17)
[b]TERAH[/b] 205 years (Gen. 11:32)
[b]ABRAHAM[/b] 175 years (Gen. 25:7)
[b]ISAAC[/b] 180 years (Gen. 35:28)
[b]JACOB[/b] 147 years (Gen. 47:28)
[b]JOSEPH[/b] 110 years (Gen. 50:26)

The patriarchs who lived before the Flood had an average lifespan of about 900 years (Gen. 5). The ages of post-Flood patriarchs dropped rapidly and gradually leveled off (Gen. 11). Some suggest that this is due to major environmental changes brought about by the Flood.

[b]Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nelson’s complete book of Bible maps and charts: Old and New Testament [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1996.[/b]

[phatcatholic]

woh, interesting

[MorphRC]

Im full of interesting informational informative information

[cmotherofpirl]

The ages in Genesis don't have to be taken literally, remember they are teaching stories. The point of the ages was that holy people lived longer, and as sin increased man's time on earth decreased.
" The ages for the patriarchs are symbolic, not exact. We can see that the ages of people reduce, the further they get from God; there is a process of degeneration at work due to the presence of evil. In a way there is the same sort of outlook here as in Proverbs 10:27:"The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short." Mankind becomes more debased, so God reduces the allotted span to 120 years. [Genesis 6:3]" Navarre Bible -Pentateuch


Enoch is a particularly interesting person. He is special in three ways:
1]He lives 365 years [the perfect number]
2]he walked with God
3] he did not die, God took him to himself.

[phatcatholic]

good point

[MorphRC]

You'd have to take Adams though, otherwise original sin could be proved false, right?

Edited August 2, 2004 by MorphRC

[cmotherofpirl]

Adam is a fact, his age is not, it is a detail to show he lived a very long time.

[Aloysius]

no i don't think so.

i actually think adam lived to be like 63 million years old. this is just a theory, but i think Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden while the dinosaurs roamed the earth. when then sinned God hadta kill off all the dinosaurs so he could banish them from paradise without them gettin eaten by a T-Rex. it's just a theory, but y not? lol, most ppl would take not taking those literally to mean making their lifespans shorter, i see it as we can make adam's lifespan longer!

[MorphRC]

Lol Yeah to bad science has proved it was a comet..lol

[Aloysius]

no, there's still tons of theories out there who haven't given up.

besides, God threw a comet into the earth and protected Adam and Eve.

[MorphRC]

Hmm Nope