Did Men live 900 years? - Page 3

RandyWayne · #21 01-15-2012, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Dordrecht

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

Type in 'moons origins' into Google and follow ALL the links. This IS the most likely scenario for the origin of our moon and is show most likely by both computer models and geological evidence.

Jay · #22 01-15-2012, 03:43 PM

I was using the term obscure in the sense that the writing is not 'clear' and some people want to claim the nephilim as related to fallen angels. That was what I was addressing. If I was not clear as to what I meant, I apologize. It is the only passage that would could possibly link them in Scripture. I apologize if I misunderstood your question. I was addressing it from the arguments that I have heard before.

Dordrecht · #23 01-15-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Type in 'moons origins' into Google and follow ALL the links. This IS the most likely scenario for the origin of our moon and is show most likely by both computer models and geological evidence.

I checked it.
It's most interesting, no doubt!
But no scientific facts, just guess work.
I just have a problem believing any of it.

RandyWayne · #24 01-15-2012, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dordrecht

I checked it.
It's most interesting, no doubt!
But no scientific facts, just guess work.
I just have a problem believing any of it.

Well, I "believe" the moon is made of cheese. Disapprove that!

AreYouReady? · #25 01-15-2012, 06:40 PM

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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.

Have you been studying the expanding earth theory?

AreYouReady? · #26 01-15-2012, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay

I was using the term obscure in the sense that the writing is not 'clear' and some people want to claim the nephilim as related to fallen angels. That was what I was addressing. If I was not clear as to what I meant, I apologize. It is the only passage that would could possibly link them in Scripture. I apologize if I misunderstood your question. I was addressing it from the arguments that I have heard before.

No apologies needed Jay. I've heard the definition of nephilim as being fallen angels also, which prompted us as a family to search out the difference between the words "giants" and "sons of God". People get the two mixed up often. We are still studying the subject as we do not have a full understanding, maybe we never will in this life.

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 6:4)

If we look at it by substituting the word "tyrant" (just to try to clarify) instead of the word giant (according to Strong's) we can may see it in a different light.

There were tyrants 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 6:4)

So...who are the sons of God?

Here is one explanation that makes some sense, but I am not convinced yet.

http://apostolicrevelation.blogspot....ns-of-god.html

It makes better sense than fallen angels turning into human flesh. (...and we were taught that in an Apostolic UPC church) It did not make sense then either.

AreYouReady? · #27 01-15-2012, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Just for conversation sake and not to dispute your supposition. It could have happened like you say, but I doubt that children would be spaced further apart ...one every 15-20 years. And I doubt that the men had only one wife back in Noah's day. Most likely they had many wives since there was no law binding them to one wife.