Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
Shrinking Life Spans
Why did human life expectancy decline sharply in early Bible times?
Enoch was a mere child when his life on earth ended at age 365. Today, at the ripe old age of thirty, most people find they cannot run the mile quite so fast as those younger kids they used to compete against. At forty, fathers begin to lose arm-wrestling matches with their sons, and at fifty with their daughters. At sixty, you may be feeling young but a look in the mirror prevents self-deception. At seventy, you have qualified for every senior-citizen discount ever invented, and people say, "You're so young looking," only to coax you for a walk around the block. How did those people in the Bible live so long, when in comparison many of us grow tired and old so soon?
One of the oldest people in the Bible was Methuselah, a man who lived 969 years, nearly a full millennium. Most of these people had begun raising kids when they reached our age of retirement. How did these ancients live so long? Did they have a purer air and water? Was their some type of enzyme or protein in the food they ate that gave them i ... read full excerpt from Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible ebook
