Did Men live 900 years?

[AreYouReady?]

What about the Nephilim? Any possibility?

[Jason B]

With God all things are (im)possible according to Not4Sale.

[Jay]

Most of the people whould have lived long lives, so the rate of departure from this life (which is part of the reason why people long to leave). Futher, the aging rate would have been much slower. Probably puberty would still have occured in the first 20 years of life, but the stages of life would have been much different, with young adulthood lasting until nearly 300 years old.

Probably marriages (Adam and Eve, and Enoch being exceptions) did not occur until after a person was into the triple digits. Children could also be spaced further apart (one every 15-20 years).

I know that I am engaging in supposition, but I do believe that some of these can be infered. Further we know that there was a moral collapse during the period preceding Noah.

[Jay]

No Nephilim. Aside from one relatively obscure verse in Genesis, all support for that theory comes from sources outside the Bible. These are unreliable, and can lead into all manner of strange beliefs. Most of this ends in New Age/Occultic doctrines.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

There is no evidence for a "Adamic" race just as there is no evidence for a steady-state universe JUST AS their is NO evidence for a hollow Earth.

On a side note there is a tiny bit of evidence for man interbreeding with neanderthal.

I imagine "Lucy" was simply stunning in her wedding dress....

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I imagine "Lucy" was simply stunning in her wedding dress....

Well, there are actually a number of distinct species commonly known as "neanderthals" and while none of them would be considered to be "attractive" most normal human standards, they didn't look like apes either and were close enough genetically to make interbreeding possible.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Jay

No Nephilim. Aside from one relatively obscure verse in Genesis, all support for that theory comes from sources outside the Bible. These are unreliable, and can lead into all manner of strange beliefs. Most of this ends in New Age/Occultic doctrines.

Obscure?

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
(Genesis 6:1-4)

The word giant from Strong's Concordance means: 5303 nphiyl nef-eel' or nphil {nef-eel'}; from 5307; properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant:--giant. see HEBREW for 05307

The nephilim were merely tyrants which took wives and bare children. But...I answered my own question. This happened after Cain took a wife. The question of where his wife came from still remains.

We should never discount any verse in the Bible as "obscure" because every verse in the Bible has some meaning, otherwise it would not be there. Even the verse "Jesus Wept" is not obscure. I've heard many lessons on the shortest verse in the Bible.

[forgivenson]

Just a thought? In the bible....at creation, How big did say the brand new 'baby' earth was? How fast does the bible say it was spinning when it was brand-spanking new? Now, this is not scriptural...but what if the earth was 1/10th the size and spinning 10 times faster? I do not necessarilly 'believe' this is true.....but I would like to point out that: We just do not 'know' all of God's workings and His ways. My bible say's that God created all, but it does not reveal the method. I for one believe....with all my heart. And I am in AWE of the marvelous mystery of God's creation and all His beauty, splendor, and Majesty. Just because I do not understand it all....does not give me cause to doubt. It gives me cause to marvel......intensely. Intensely!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by forgivenson

Just a thought? In the bible....at creation, How big did say the brand new 'baby' earth was? How fast does the bible say it was spinning when it was brand-spanking new? Now, this is not scriptural...but what if the earth was 1/10th the size and spinning 10 times faster? I do not necessarilly 'believe' this is true.....but I would like to point out that: We just do not 'know' all of God's workings and His ways. My bible say's that God created all, but it does not reveal the method. I for one believe....with all my heart. And I am in AWE of the marvelous mystery of God's creation and all His beauty, splendor, and Majesty. Just because I do not understand it all....does not give me cause to doubt. It gives me cause to marvel......intensely. Intensely!

At one point the Earth WAS 1/10 its present size. At one point it was 1/100. When the moon was first formed from the collision of the Earth with a planet the size of Mars, the moon was MUCH closer and the rotation of the planet was about 8 hours, but it was the tidal influence of the new moon which slowed us down to our present 24 hour day.

[Dordrecht]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

At one point the Earth WAS 1/10 its present size. At one point it was 1/100. When the moon was first formed from the collision of the Earth with a planet the size of Mars, the moon was MUCH closer and the rotation of the planet was about 8 hours, but it was the tidal influence of the new moon which slowed us down to our present 24 hour day.

Nice story. Would you mind providing your source????