What's all this about Noah living to 950?

[Zak33]

WHat's this about then? Never heard this one before....religious guidance needed please.

Noah....950 years?

[streetster]

yeh, according to my gf it was something to do with god liking him (and some of the people in the beginning of the bible - read genesis) and the fact they needed to live for a long time to populate the world.. but dont hold me to that

[Purple]

yeah thats about right

[RVF500]

Digging deep into memory now but the early people lived for extremely long periods, Adam was over 900, until God basically put a cap on it (Methuselah was a mere pup at around 850 when he popped his clogs). I think the cap was imposed because people being as daft as they are were taking advantage of this long lifespan so God gave us a much shorter time in which to screw things up. That and the fact that he could see a population problem if we were all going to go on until our late 900s

Another theory that I just thought up all on my lonesome whilst writing this is that someone made an ancient typo and a punctuation mark was read as a zero. Which would make Noah 95 when he died. Assuming of course that Arabic numerals or a similar decimal system were in use in the original.

Have I messed with your head enough yet? or shall I unplug you from the matrix and really screw with your grey matter?

[Flash]

I bet that cost a helluva lot of care home fees?

[Stringent]

Actually God never put a cap on anything. Death entered the world as a result of mans sin against God. The fact is if we look down the line, lifespans of humans are getting a lot shorter than they used to be. If it were not for the medical care we have today, people would be living a lot shorter than they are.

But for your quote Zak,

Genesis 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

No guidance needed!

[DeludedGuy]

This is true, people back then lived to be well over 600 years old. It says so in the Bible.

[RVF500]

There ya go. God capped us because we were screwing things up.

Don't think I could put up with this place for 600 years though. 60 will be bad enough. Talk about a blessing in disguise.

[Purple]

ah but in 6 hundred years you could be retired in a far more interesting place like a nice asteriod of your own, personally if i lived for 900 years i would annex the moon and start a proper free world, with no money concerns because everyone could live off cheese - with entrance exams (not hard ones just common sense ones to stop bush supporters getting in).