CHRIS-VINCENT Writes: Did Methuselah Really Live for 969 Years As the Bible Claims?

From BrutallyUncensored.Com

I abhor dogmatism for the obvious fact; it serves as a cosy bulwark between blind information acceptance and a person’s ability to come to a reasonable conclusion through the application reason and logic.

Surely we’ve all heard about the ‘awe-inspiring’ biblical story of Methuselah, the son of Enoch who lived for 969 years. Until this morning, I had never really considered that certain ‘educated Christians’ do actually believe this to be true and accept for a fact that another human being lived this long on the back of our today’s calendar simply because the Bible says it happened.

The Methuselah religious myth is just one of the many on which religion developed and thrives—and unfortunately, a bunch of credulous 21st century citizens still largely believe in these tales in spite of their apparent ridiculousness.

When it comes to most of the Biblical myths, they can easily be stripped apart by any reasonable person who decides to just spend a second to subject what they read to rational evaluation.

On facebook, a status update from a ‘friend’ which stated that Methuselah for a fact lived for 969 years pushed me to consider the plausibility of this Biblical claim, employing basic reason and logic—which every reasonable person should be able to appreciate.

The Hebrew Bible states that Methuselah lived the longest and died at the age of 969.

Let’s grant this as a fact.

Now, any sensible person who comes across this passage would ask; at the era Methuselah lived, what constituted A YEAR? How many days or months made a year under the then calendar?

So if every 2 weeks was considered a year under the calendar of the time, then it is plausible he could live up to 969 years.

[smartads]

Without knowing for certain the sort of calendar which was used at the time, it is purely nonsense to think that what amounted to one year at the time is the same as what amounts to a year under our calendar.

We’ve had different ways of counting years and therefore have had different calendars throughout history. Methuselah’s 969 years on earth could possible be as a result of difference in the way we count time (remember, for the purpose of this argument, we granted that he actually live).

Also, it would be impossible for those who lived before us to have had longer life expectancy than us—it is estimated that the life expectancy at the time Jesus was said to have lived was 30-37 years.

Any era below that time would reasonably have less—and less.

It doesn’t take much to find answers to most of the claims of the Bible, yet many just don’t want to use their thinking faculties.

The Methuselah case is just like me saying, I drunk 200 glasses of water in 2 hours—depending on the size of the glass, this could be true or false.

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