Genesis Chapter 5
I'm not really sure what is the point of this chapter which takes us from Cain and Abel through to Noah, but What a bunch of old codgers!
Perhaps if we lived that long these days we would take slightly better care of the planet we may be around to see the consequences of our environmental actions.
Imagine being the age of Methuselah (969 years) in 2013 would mean a birth in 1044, so would have been 22 years old at the battle of Hastings.
Whether people used to live for nearly 1000 years is literally true I honestly do not know,
some people use this chapter as part of the calculation of the age of the earth - apparently according to Bishop James Usher the earth was created in 4004 b.c. from a literal reading of the book of Genesis that a creation day lasted 24 hours and a biblical year lasted 365.25 days. Treating Genesis as a historical epic according to modern scientific standards tends to leave me feeling like a bit of an idiot
Also notice that Methuselah is the oldest person in the
Bible aged 969 years and that he still died before his dad, Enoch, who got
carried away by God.
We now get the introduction of Noah
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