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Originally posted by Amet Khan
Because the stories in the bible are not accurate.
Originally posted by ShawNee922
Originally posted by instar
Maybe we did live that long ,so long ago. It may be part of our evolutionary path. huge lifespans would mean severe overpopulation. The more the populations grew the shorter we lived as a result.
[edit on 063131p://31016 by instar]
You brought something to mind that I read awhile back.
A guy had created a cpu program. He devised a single cell organism and programmed it to split thereby creating a double cell organism. From there the double cell organism was to split and so on and so on.... Well, there was only so much space in the program and the guy figured the thing would bog down when space ran out(not unlike a calculator).
Lo and behold , DEATH entered his program univited and started preying on the weak and the old and created space for the program to keep running ....
I cannot recall all the details but it lends merit to what you speak ....Seeing how the first organisms created knew nothing of death until death was somehow mandated into the program,
~peace
Originally posted by instar
Originally posted by ShawNee922
Originally posted by instar
Maybe we did live that long ,so long ago. It may be part of our evolutionary path. huge lifespans would mean severe overpopulation. The more the populations grew the shorter we lived as a result.
A guy had created a cpu program. He devised a single cell organism and programmed it to split thereby creating a double cell organism. From there the double cell organism was to split and so on and so on.... Well, there was only so much space in the program and the guy figured the thing would bog down when space ran out(not unlike a calculator).
Lo and behold , DEATH entered his program univited and started preying on the weak and the old and created space for the program to keep running....
Thats very intresting, Thanks, can you try to find some more info about it please?
Originally posted by TruthStrgnrThanFiction
Somewhere in Gensis God says that although man is flesh like he is (very interesting alone..that God also has some form of "flesh") he will not strive with him forever ..and cuts mans life to three score and ten. This was around the flood time period. Before God did this men supposedly lived for hundreds of years. So thats the biblical view. King James bible seems to have alot more of this than modern versions, especially the bit about man being flesh like God...image and likeness anybody? Either the KJV is a fake bible, or it is the real deal because every other bible either changes the translation or totally leaves out entire passages.
Originally posted by elmariachi
I think the problem here is that the bible is either open to interpretation or is literal. The problem extends itself when it is open to interpretation- that it can be interpreted in many different ways. If you 'believe' in science, than many things in the bible cannot be literal. So how much faith are you willing to put into the bible?
Now, as far as lifespans...
In the bible, people lived for hundreds of years. This apparently dropped off sharply to where people were only living to maybe their 40s. Only with the assistance of a better standard of living and medicine do we live up to the 100's now. As far back as the 1800's people in some areas of the world still weren't living to be very old. So, I don't necessarily see how our lives have gotten shorter from any sort of inbreeding or whatever.
Since we've opened the bible to interpretation, its possible that these biblical characters didn't actually live 900 years.
you take the bible literally then earth was created in 4004bce
this puts your idea of early disease stages outside of any possibility because surely god designed all the diseases and released them right at the start.
when in reality the species homo sapiens sapiens had been around for 100,000 years and so have many of the diseases which are variants of those that affect other primates anyway
if you don't take the bible literally then its fiction and is easily explained by science
the thing that makes me laugh about you god types is your inability to think past the next chapter and verse
the idea of God being omnipotent omnicogniscent and fundementally unknowable as you claim reduces the bible to an attempt by man to explain the omnipotent omnicogniscent and unknowable
and that is the only thing here that is impossible to be quantifed by science
so a book written by a small semitic cult in Babylon 2500 years ago hardly counts does it
If I were someone who believed God to be omnipotent and omnicognisent, then I would tell you the bible I read today is exactly what God wanted me to read. He wouldn't be much of a God otherwise now would he.
Originally posted by dlbrandt
Yes, one day, at a christians physical death or the return of Christ, He will change us christians and we will no longer be able to sin, and when eternity begins sin will be no longer.
Just because you are christian and I am not does not mean Jesus or God wount care for me.
Originally posted by stgeorge
Another channeler (long since removed off the Internet) said "No harm may come to any abductee.None will commit suicide."
I am a personal testement to that,having contemplated doing away with myself in a fit of depression. That is when these "angels" or "demons" came to the rescue. You have heard of such interventions before.
Well,good to feel wanted.As to longevity,it was remarked that I seem youngish for my 45 years. I remember some operations they performed.
[edit on 9-8-2004 by stgeorge]
Originally posted by ZUFFI
People in the bible did live this long.
Human DNA is programmed to run for 950 years
Our life spans have been greatly reduced since then because as constantly returning souls it was necessary to have shorter lives in order to speed up the karmic engine of the planet.
Originally posted by instar
Originally posted by ShawNee922
You brought something to mind that I read awhile back.
A guy had created a cpu program. He devised a single cell organism and programmed it to split thereby creating a double cell organism. From there the double cell organism was to split and so on and so on.... Well, there was only so much space in the program and the guy figured the thing would bog down when space ran out(not unlike a calculator).
Lo and behold , DEATH entered his program univited and started preying on the weak and the old and created space for the program to keep running ....
I cannot recall all the details but it lends merit to what you speak ....Seeing how the first organisms created knew nothing of death until death was somehow mandated into the program,
~peace
Thats very intresting, Thanks, can you try to find some more info about it please?
Originally posted by jimboman
Maybe the gene theory someone mentioned earlier in the thread had something to do with the longer life-spans before the flood.