Were people in the Old Testament really that Old?

it has been said on a show like on history channel that at one time on earth the atmospere was more dense. the trees grew bigger and so were humans etc. and with that also came longer life spans.

Truth is the years were a lot shorter back then. No kidding.

Also most of that fairy tale is bullshit anyway.

[link to www.genesispark.com]

this is a link I found on it. couldnt find the show I seen yet. been long day. sorry.

Perhaps there is the "Ageing Gene" and gods decided to shorten it after the flood?

No its real doode. Dinosaurs and all the other giant stuff was that was due to the environment was different. This scientist has recreated it in a hyperbaric chamber with good results.

[link to keelynet.com]

The dino age (pre flood) air has been captured in amber.

[link to www.nytimes.com]

Everything was bigger and lived older in the past.

Bible right again!

Seems to have to do with the vapor canopy

I don't know. So the question I ask myself is: How could this be true?

Some guesses:

1> Maybe the flood was caused by a prehistoric nuclear war amoung the "gods" and what we now call "background radiation" is responsible for our rapid aging.

2> Perhaps the flood was caused by the near passage of a large wandering celestial body. Widespread resultant vulcanism caused global cooling. Most of the water vapor in the atmosphere fell to earth as rain. More atmosphere was lost to the passing giant. A result being everyone is now exposed to more cosmic radiation, thus shortening their lives?

3> "God" started his "garden" with special genetic breeding stock and they were fed a restricted diet. Humans from the garden revolted and went "wild". Then most of the "garden crop" was killed in the flood. The survivors lost the benefits of genetic programming and prescription diet, so their lifespans decayed.

No, Virginia, that's NOT why its called the 'Old' Testament.

This is one explanation:


Touching genealogies, in which men seemed to have lived to so great an age, this, then, is the explanation for it:

Thothma had said to his recorders: In searching for the truth of legends, give the latitude of it. For one legend will say, such a man lived seven hundred years ago, another legend will say he lived one thousand and fifty years ago. The latitude between them is, therefore, three hundred and fifty years, which shall be the time of that man's life.

And in this way latitude became confounded with fact, and with no intent to deceive.

And behold, it came to pass that the records were worthless; and to make matters worse the records were so voluminous, being more than six thousand books, that the scribes of Ezra could make neither head nor tail of them. Nevertheless, they were all written, in the first place not by the Israelites, but by their enemies; where, even so, the testimony of the miracles is none the weaker.

[link to oahspe.se.angelfire.com]

Yeah, used to be real beautiful back then, Think of vegetation and fruit trees and edibles covering every square inch of earth. There would be no starvation or drought, it would be unheard of. Weather would be moderate and not the extremes we have today

The Earth of today is really a hostile planet. It would be classified as semi barren now compared to its original condition.

[link to hiddenhistoryhumanity.com]

the patriarchs could represent whole races, sub races and branch races. noah was a giant from lameria and atlantist came next. all recorded by H P Blavatsky and re-written by phillip lindsay. great website.

Maybe, but I believe that their bodies renewed themselves with more vigor than ours do today. Our bodies stop being able to renew at optimal levels after 30 years of age. It continues to decline through old age. And, Yes, the renewal of the cells is dedicated by God's decree. That's my 2 cents.

oxygen levels used to be around 30%, 50% higher than now.
Hyperbaric therapy is amazing.

An alternative possibility... the authors assed out more vigorously than we do today.

The original settlers here were from worlds where it is normal to live a couple thousand years. Because of the Earth's density and vibration the later generations were not so lucky.

Barometric chambers with 100% oxygen will cure all disease.

It won't cure a clogged, rotten gut that's the main source of disease today.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

They counted lunar months instead of years.

The first article is hardly scientific. The second article doesn't scientifically support you claim.

It's sad when frightened people like you have to resort to such tricks to hold on to your fairy tales. One of which requires us to be honest, which of course you are not being by posting links to these articles.

This is why non-religious people hate hypocrites like you.

The earth was different before the Biblical world flood event.

- Most the planet was land
- Most the planet was covered in vegetation, world wide rainforest-like environment
- no oceans like we have today
- a thick, misty haze atmosphere where you couldn't see the sun like you can now
- Such a world was possible for dinosaurs; a rich environment for them to grow to huge size

Before sin came along, there was no death for man, thus he lived forever. Adam chose to sinned and the sin nature entered man's DNA, making death possible. The DNA decayed over the generations, making man live shorter and shorter until what we have today.

simple, really. Alien DNA that has been diluted thru time

more oxygen will just burn you out quicker. That is why noone breathes 100% oxygen. It oxidizes you. People in higher locales seem to actually live longer.

It is gravity which destroys the body over time. it breaks down the organs and the bones. Gravity hasn't changed in 4 billion years. Those savage desert nomads were just making up fairy tales.