Did Noah really live
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Anonymous
| To 950 years old? Some animals do live hundreds of years - do you think humans lived that long in the past? |
Anonymous
| Oh FFS. Not even Biblical scholars think that story is literal or "real." |
Anonymous
| I was raised evangelical and yes, I was told he and others (methuselah?) lived hundreds of years. |
Anonymous
Yes, he was actually a sequoia tree. |
Anonymous
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First, they used different ways of measuring time. The calendars or measurements of years likely featured shorter “years”.
In other flood stories around the world, the “Noah” figure is often portrayed as immortal or living a very long life: Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh (he reigned for 126 years!), Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greece, Manu in Hindu tradition, the goddess Nuwa in China, and various indigenous traditions in the Americas. |
Anonymous
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No. If there were humans who had lived to hundreds of years old, there would be fossil evidence of it. There is none. The human body was not designed for that kind of longevity. The animals who regularly live to over 100 years old, other than humans now with the help of technology, are all sea animals. So unless you think Noah was some kind of gilled, underwater human (which of course makes no sense), then no, he did not live to be 950 years old.
But then I assume most things about Noah's story are just folklore. There probably was a really big flood and then some myths arose around the survivors and how they survived. |
Anonymous
Actually this is a good theory because sequoias are so tall. I could see humans and animals taking refuge from a flood in a sequoia and then developing a mythological story about the tree, naming it Noah. |
Anonymous
Do we have fossil evidence from the time of Noah from humans? |
Anonymous
Same as making up stories about some guy who can walk on water, turn it into wine, and rise from the dead. |
Anonymous
| I see how some of you became religious. |