Yes. This was before processed meats & refined sugar. |
So thanks to MAHA, we will all live for hundreds of years again? |
Right -- who cares if he lived or not? |
The same people who care whether Jesus lived or not. |
You’ve got to be kidding. You think it makes more sense to believe that Noah lived to 950 because he didn’t eat processed foods than to believe the Bible isn’t literally true? |
Using the "logic" of believers, anything is possible. |
I think pp was kidding. I hope so. This was also before modern medicine, which keeps so many old people alive longer, these days - but not to 950 years! |
The Bible said it happened, so it is true. |
Well, you see, I had to write a proposal but was on Twitter (X) instead and I came across a post about living longer. I told myself to get off X and work on the proposal. But when I closed X, the tab that up was not my proposal but was DCUM. At the top of Recent Posts was a post from the Religion folder. And that is how it became a thread. |
The above is either from a Bible believer or a low IQ person, or maybe someone mocking Bible believers and low IQ people. |
In the majority of cases, they are both low IQ and believers. |
+1 The Bible is innerant, meaning it is without error. To argue against it is to argue against God who is always truthful. |
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I went to Catholic school for k-12, and we were taught that a "year" was calculated differently by the people who wrote about Noah's age. "Year" did not mean the same thing then as it does today, to us.
That being said, I'm an agnostic who is 99% sure there is no God, but I still believe that yes, these myths have a basis in truth, in some way, especially because the flood story appears in many cultures. There was some person, at some time, who for whatever reasons drew enough attention to be spun into mythological status by those who repeated the tale over and over through generations. |
And I say, so what "that these myths have a basis in truth"? There is still no God. When these myths were first started, we did't know anything about science. Now we do and still there are people who believe in these crazy myths. Why? because they are afraid to die. |
So what? Why is that necessary for these stories that come down through oral tradition to be useful as entertainiment or teaching tools? Why this obsession with archeological "proof" of every story? |