Until today, i had not realized that someone had lived to be over 120 years old.
At the beginning of the first chapter of genesis, God clearly states that no man shall live past 120 - due to the issues that caused him to create the flood.
Does anyone have any clues or anything to say about this lady...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A961958260
http://www.wowzone.com/calment.htm
http://www.supercentenarian.com/records.html
i am just really confused and am biting my tongue about some things i said on this matter...
please help!
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QUOTE (Earth @ May 22 2008, 08:53 PM) 
Until today, i had not realized that someone had lived to be over 120 years old.
At the beginning of the first chapter of genesis, God clearly states that no man shall live past 120 - due to the issues that caused him to create the flood.
Does anyone have any clues or anything to say about this lady...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A961958260
http://www.wowzone.com/calment.htm
http://www.supercentenarian.com/records.html
i am just really confused and am biting my tongue about some things i said on this matter...
please help!
At the beginning of the first chapter of genesis, God clearly states that no man shall live past 120 - due to the issues that caused him to create the flood.
Does anyone have any clues or anything to say about this lady...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html...75BC0A961958260
http://www.wowzone.com/calment.htm
http://www.supercentenarian.com/records.html
i am just really confused and am biting my tongue about some things i said on this matter...
please help!
I do not think age is a big deal...following the Lord is...Joh 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee? follow thou me. Joh 21:23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee?
Is this the reason why Christians are rejecting them stem cell research? I mean if science can make men to live to old age then wouldn't you say that science is out to debunk the bible?
Perhaps God didn't mean that 120 was an absolute limit for age. Perhaps it was meant more like a general "cut-off", like a 4-minute mile. It might be possible for a very, very few to run a mile in under 4 minutes; and it might be that God allows a very, very few to live just past 120 years. Or, that lady isn't really quite that old, and no one since God set the limit at 120 has lived that long.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the Flood and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the Flood and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
QUOTE (Godsword @ May 23 2008, 03:38 AM)
Perhaps God didn't mean that 120 was an absolute limit for age. Perhaps it was meant more like a general "cut-off", like a 4-minute mile. It might be possible for a very, very few to run a mile in under 4 minutes; and it might be that God allows a very, very few to live just past 120 years. Or, that lady isn't really quite that old, and no one since God set the limit at 120 has lived that long.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the Flood and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the Flood and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
Your absoutley right. In the book Jasher the Lord proclaims that he will give them 120 years to turn from their wicked ways,
Chapter 5 vs. 8 The Book of Jasher: For thus saith the Lord, Behold I give you a period of one hundred and twenty years; if you will turn to me and forsake your evil ways, then will I also turn away from the evil which I told you, and it shall not exist, saith the Lord.
Hack
Jeanne Calment baby.
I know all about her.
<--Encyclopedia of maximum human life span.
I should be contributing and watching this thread closely.
And posting lists of the oldest people.
I know all about her.
<--Encyclopedia of maximum human life span.
I should be contributing and watching this thread closely.
And posting lists of the oldest people.
How embarassing. I need to correct an egregious error in my previous post. (I'll let others guess, or find, what that error was.)
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Perhaps God didn't mean that 120 was an absolute limit for age. Perhaps it was meant more like a general "cut-off", like a 4-minute mile. It might be possible for a very, very few to run a mile in under 4 minutes; and it might be that God allows a very, very few to live just past 120 years. Or, that lady isn't really quite that old, and no one since God set the limit at 120 has lived that long.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the ark and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
Oh, and actually Genesis 6:3 merely has God saying that He will not strive with man forever, yet his days shall be 120 years. This was just before God determined to destroy the world in the Flood. It very well could be that God's saying in Genesis 6:3 that man's days shall be 120 years was specifically and primarily about how long He would wait while Noah built the ark and warned the world before He would bring the Flood - the world would have 120 years of warning before God destroyed it in the Flood.
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