StarryNight

Somewhere in "Yahooniverse" I heard that the long, 900+ year lives of early biblical characters were actually fairy normal lifespans represented in a diffferent, ancient calender system.

Does anyone know any more about this theory or links?

Thanks.

aa5874

Now that you brought up this issue, is it possible that all the months of the calender are anachronisms, as mentioned in Genesis.

Genesis 7.11, ".....in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month..."

Genesis 8.4,"......in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month..."

Genesis 8.5,"......in the tenth month on the first day of the month..."

Gensis 8.13,".....in the first month, the first day of the month..."

Genesis 8.14,"....in the second month, on the seven and twenthieth day of the month..."

Was there a calender with at least ten months soon after the so-called creation?

makerowner

I've never heard of this before, but it sounds like the typical way theists try to justify that the bible is true while avoiding the obviously ridiculous belief that people lived for centuries before the Flood.

diana

Maybe, but I don't think Noah et al. were fairies. He had a wife and kids, for chrissakes.

d

Nero's Boot

Yeah, but elves live at least 750 years.

--at least the D&D Players Handbook informs us about these important matters NB

StarryNight

hairy witty.

-Jay-

My kids watch a documentary series on Nickelodeon about fairies. They marry. They float around. They live a long time.

I'm not really seeing the contradiction here...

regards,

NinJay

Atheos

The reason this doesn't work is because there's no way to do the math so it comes out reasonable. If you shoot for a factor that puts all the deaths at some reasonable age (the oldest people dying in their 90's) then you'd basically be dividing all the ages by 10, at which point you have Mahalaleel siring his first son at the tender age of 6.5 years. If you use a factor that gets Mahalaleel into puberty (12 years old) then you still have Methuselah living to be 177 and most of these characters living to be well over 150.

There's just not a good way to turn these numbers into reasonable values using math.

urbanespaceman

The argument that I've seen is that man was closer to perfection then because each person was much more closely related to Adam & Eve and imperfections only began to creep in gradually once they were expelled from the garden.

Of course that's a daft argument for a fundie since it implies that they agree with some kind of evolutionary theory (genetic "errors" being passed on). But when's the fact that an argument made no sense ever stopped them ... ?

Atheos

You might well have heard that argument from me back when I was a fundie preacher. I had it all figured out, including genetic perfection that allowed the ancients to mate with their sisters without deformities, a "vapor canopy" that sheilded humans from the harmful radiation of the sun and eventually collapsed to create the great flood of Noah's time, followed by a period when life expectancy slowly crept down from hundreds of years to under a century.