Kingsley Liew Tai Ah,(IR#2) an expert in bird watching, reported to the police that CSI Case #1's findings were distorted. Kingsley Liew explained that people back then lived longer than 150 years old. Methuselah is a good example. He lived up to 969 years old. He is the oldest man on earth. People with such long age, naturally, look young even when they are 91 years old. However, people today normally live up to between 70 to 80 years old. See Psalm 90:10 "The days of our years are seventy; and if any by strength live eighty years yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it soon passes, and we fly away.
Biblical Evidences Gathered By CSI Team:
1. Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
2. Gen 23:1 And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
3. Gen 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years.(175 years)
4. Psa 90:10 The days of our years are seventy; and if any by strength live eighty years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it soon passes, and we fly away.
CSI Comments :We disagree with Kingsly that the people living around Abraham and Sarah's generation has a very long life like Methuselah. ( i.e 900++ years old ) Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.Genesis 6:3 is God spoken words. Man’s life to exist on earth for 120 years applies after the great flood that wipes out the whole human race except for Noah and his family. God grieved by the wickedness of mankind, decides to destroy the corrupted world, but instructs Noah to build the Ark and take on board his family and representatives of the animals and birds. The story ends with Noah offering an animal sacrifice and entering into a covenant with God.
Abraham and Sarah appeared only in Chapter 11 onwards in the book of Genesis. They are mentioned in the bible after Genesis 6:3. Except for a few exceptions, people no longer live more than 120 years old as per Gen 6:3.Below is the Life Span Of Key Biblical Characters done by the CSI team starting with Adam living up to 930 years old.
*Noah and Shem should not be included in statistical data as they are born before the Great Flood.
The names tabulated in the diagram’s follows the genealogy of Jesus spelt out in Luke Chapter 3.[Luk 3:34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, Luk 3:35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Salah, Luk 3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, Luk 3:37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan; Luk 3:38 son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.]
From the diagrams above, it is clear that man's age has significantly gone down immediately after Gen 6:3. Each generation following the genealogy losses a big chunk of age span. Thus Kingsley theory that people still look attractive as they live up to 900++ years cannot hold water, as the diagram clearly shows, the further the bible verses are from Gen 6;3 the shorter their life span. By the time we reached Abraham’s generation, people live around 120 years old. (Abraham himself is an exception)
It is also clear that God's word took sometime to come into full fruition. This is similar to Jesus cursing the fig tree in the New Testament (Mark 11:14, 20-21).
Other Biblical evidence can be found in
1. Gen 18:11 And Abraham and Sarah were aged, going on in days. The custom as to women had ceased to be to Sarah.“Ceased to be” here means she stop performing her custom duty as a wife…….. sexually.
2.Gen 18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall there be pleasure to me; my lord also being old?Notice, Sarah must feel old to reflect that she does not feel confident that she can have sex at such an old age with Abraham. If she is beautiful and young, she should not have any worry about pleasuring Abraham. She in fact finds it humorous.
3. Gen 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Item 1 to 3 above points clearly to the fact that Sarah and Abraham felt they are no longer young and attractive to have sex. It was so ludicrus that both Sarah and Abraham laughed at God. And it was here that Sarah lied to God when God asked her why she laughed.............her replied was "NO GOD, I did not laugh." Can you imagine what was going through Sarah's head at that time.......... maybe she could be saying "God has finally lost its". A ninety years old lady having sex and bear a son for an old man Abraham.
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