If the Bible is true, then how did Methuselah live to be 969 years old?
This is another question an atheist asked me, although I was ready with an answer for this one! The Bible says in Genesis 5:27 “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.” Even the average reader of the Bible who loves God might wonder a little about this one. Here’s what someone showed me to help explain how Methuselah could live to be 900.
Genesis 1:6-8 “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” So God made a canopy of water around the earth, it says he divided the waters which were under the firmament(sky) from the waters above the firmament(sky) and called the firmament heaven. Here in Genesis 1:20″And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.” (We see birds flying in the firmament s
o we know it was the sky and there was a layer of water above the sky). It is reasonable to believe this would be a canopy.
If there was a canopy around the earth we would be protected from the sun’s UV rays, oxygen pressure would increase (we can tell from air bubbles found in amber oxygen was much richer at one time), animals (dinosaurs), people and plants would live a lot longer and grow to be much bigger! Now I think there is plenty of evidence that the canopy was broken up in Noah’s flood. There is tons of evidence for Noah’s world wide flood found is the fossils, there have been foss That would explain why we see life spans drop off gradually through out the Bible in Genesis.The canopy theory makes sense to me, much more than evolution. The thought that something came from nothing and that living material “evolved” from non living material is ridiculous. I used to believe evolution when I was in school until someone started showing me all the problems with it. If your theory is correct you should be able to examine the contrary evidence and not have a problem, if you choose not to your not being scientific.
Here is a good resource for more on the canopy theory:
http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/fcanopy.html
Another good resource to learn more about creation science is:
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=search&f_typeID=2
or:
http://answersingenesis.org/
This is a fossil of a fish giving birth, one of billions of fossils we find all over the earth that proves there was a world wide flood in Noah’s day. Fossils are made when a lot mud covers animals quickly, not from billions of years. If your cat died in your driveway today if would not fossilize in a million years. Fossils take special circumstances to form(like a world wide flood talked about in the Bible).
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackEnoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. Atheist
What is your point? This pictures the rapture that is coming when Jesus returns to the earth like the Bible predicts. All of the Bibles prophecies have either been fulfilled or are going to be. The Bible says in
2 Peter 3:3-5 ” Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lust. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
So your actually fulfilling another Biblical prophecy right now! The Bible says in the last days people are going to scoff at the Bible because they don’t want God to tell them what to do, and they are going to hold to a uniformitarian doctrine that every thing happens in slow gradual processes of evolution.
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