Let's look at the lineage of the first man on earth, Adam. In the Old Testament it is written in black and white: “All the days of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died."
Adam's son Seth lived for 912 years. The grandson of Enos - 905. The great-grandson of Cainan - 910. The great-great-grandson of Malaleil - 895. The great-great-grandson of Jared - 962. The next descendant of Enoch - 365. Methuselah - 969! The record holder-long-liver of the planet. No wonder there is an expression of the mafusailov century. Lamech - 777. Noah - 950.
By simple addition, division, we find out: the average life expectancy of the patriarchs of nine antediluvian generations was 912 years. (The tenth, Enoch, does not count, he was taken to heaven alive at the age of 365. But he managed to give birth to Methuselah himself!)
Each of these venerable fathers of families had more sons, daughters. But in the genealogy only the firstborn in the line of Adam are mentioned. We must assume that the rest of the children lived for a long time.
It is strange that the Old Testament does not say how long the ancestor of humanity Eve and her heirs lived. Perhaps because it was created from the rib of Adam. Sorry, feminists, but you can't get the words out of the Bible. The iron patriarchy ruled the ball before the flood, women knew their place …
Methuselah - Record holder-long-lived planet
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ALL LIE TO CALENDARS?
But why, why did the first people live so long?
I remember that the country's leading gerontologist (specialist in aging), academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences on the Direct Line with the readers of Komsomolskaya Pravda answered a similar question succinctly and authoritatively: "Then in the Bible a month was considered a year!" I sat next to the academician, allowed to doubt. "Scientifically proven fact!" - said the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
You can't argue against science.
The other day, having taken up this biblical detective story, I asked another respected gerontologist, geneticist, doctor of sciences about the Mafusailic age. “The Bible was rewritten in different languages in different centuries,” the scientist explained clearly. - There was a translation error. In the original, "lunar month" stood, and the ancient translator put the word "year". Then it went like that. And if you count, then the life expectancy was around 80 years, which is real."
It turns out that the legendary Methuselah actually lived only a little over 80 ?! The rest of the patriarchs are even less. This is what omniscient science means!
Not otherwise, the devil beguiled the ancient translator. Vintsa gave him a strong one, or pushed him under the elbow inadvertently. Introduced, crafty, confusion in the holy book. Oh, this Satan! First, under the guise of a snake, he seduced Eve to taste the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For this, the Lord was angry with Adam and his frivolous wife, and drove them out of Eden. Thus, the first people and all their offspring, including you and me, lost eternal, endless life, violating the original plan of the Creator. And then the demon changed the month in the Bible for a year, and the people in different countries have been puzzling over for more than one thousand years why people lived for nine centuries before the flood, and now only a few barely reach one.
You can safely close a journalistic investigation.
Oh, this Satan! First, under the guise of a snake, he seduced Eve to taste the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For which the Lord was angry with Adam and his frivolous wife, drove them out of Eden
FIVE YEAR OLD FATHERS
But there was one hitch. Judging by the Old Testament chronicle, Adam gave birth to Seth at the age of 130. If you believe our scientists-gerontologists, in fact, the first father of the planet then was not eleven years old. But before Seth, for a minute, he managed to give birth to as many as two sons. Lost them as adults. Remember the story of how Cain killed Abel, went into exile himself. It was only after this loss that Adam conceived Seth, by the way. To prolong the race. He gave Adam the grandson of Enos at the age of 105. Divide by 12. Well, the young parent was not 9 years old? Gee! An even bigger mystery is the great-great-grandson of Adam Malleleil. He became the father of Jared at 65. If you follow the scientific version that the antediluvian year was equal to our month, he conceived the first-born when he himself was not five years old. Science itself is not funny? In the antediluvian 65, by the way, and Enoch gave birth to Methuselah himself.
So there is a discrepancy, comrades scientists, in your scientific formula - "year for month."
FOR DEPRECATION, FOR DRUNKING, FOR DEAD
Then came the Universal Flood. Well, I suppose everyone has heard about him. The Lord was angry with people for their sins and decided to drown everyone.
Backfill question: for what specific sins? I don't think most people know.
When Adam's offspring began to multiply on earth, "the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and took them as their wives, whatever they chose." And the daughters of men began to give birth to the sons of God giants. Are not their giant skeletons still periodically found by archaeologists in different parts of the world? And who are the sons of God themselves? The Bible doesn't answer. Some consider them Atlanteans, others - aliens from other planets, the same Nibiru. However, this is a topic for a separate biblical detective story, outside the scope of our today's investigation.
“And the Lord saw that the corruption of men on earth was great, and that all the thoughts and thoughts of their hearts were evil at all times…. And the Lord said: I will destroy from the face of the earth the men whom I have created, from men to cattle, and creeping things and birds of the air, I will destroy …"
He pardoned only the pious grandson of Methuselah, six hundred years old Noah with his wife, and his three sons with their spouses. He ordered Noah to build a huge ark, take his large family into it on the appointed day, and each creature a pair. For divorce after the flood.
According to the Bible, the Ark sailed to a stop over Ararat for exactly 5 months
Now, citizens, attention!
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the great abyss were opened, and the windows of heaven were opened. And it rained on the earth for forty days and forty nights … Every creature that was on the surface of the earth was destroyed; from man to cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the air; only Noah remained and everything that was with him in the ark. And the water began to decrease at the end of one hundred and fifty days. And the ark stopped in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat."
According to the Bible, the ark floated to a stop over Ararat for exactly 5 months - 150 days. So the month was 30 days. Like today.
What if there were only 7 months in the Old Testament year, the meticulous reader will ask a question? Then the Mafusail's age will be almost half as long, and with young 65-year-old fathers everything is tip-top!
Well, we read and calculate further.
“The water was constantly decreasing until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains appeared. After forty days (almost the middle of the eleventh! - Author) Noah opened the window of the ark he had made. " And he released a dove to find out if there was dry land. He returned without finding her. After hesitating for seven days, Noah released the bird again. In the evening, she flew in with an olive leaf in her beak. After waiting another seven days, the patriarch released the dove again, and it never returned. Apparently, he found a piece of sushi somewhere and stayed. And Noah continued to wait. Until the end of the twelfth month. And only "six hundred and one year, by the first day of the first month, the water on the earth dried up and Noah opened the lid of the ark." The earth was dry only by the twenty-seventh day of the second month. It was then that God ordered Noah to leave the ark together with his family, all the cattle, creeping things and disperse on the earth,to be fruitful and multiply.
VERDICT - 120 YEARS OF LIFE
With the calendar, at the very least, figured out. It turns out that with the Old Testament chronology everything was as it is today. I deliberately do not call the academician and doctors of sciences I really respect, who misled me with the "scientific" formula - the biblical year is equal to the modern month. Obviously, they themselves have not read the Bible, although the topic of longevity touched upon in it is their life's work. They simply repeated the version widespread in scientific circles, cleverly refuting the century, inexplicable for the scientists of the Mafusail. That is why I quoted the Bible in such detail, gave facts. You don't have to believe me. And don't believe it, it's better to check it yourself. Today is not Soviet atheistic times, anyone interested can easily find and read the Bible.
There is also a version that the then 10 years went in one year this year. But how does she explain that Malleleil and Enoch gave birth to their firstborn at 6.5 years old?
Noah himself, having descended from the ark with his family and cattle, no longer experienced the joy of fatherhood. Although he lived another 350 years after the universal cataclysm
And then the detective begins.
Even before the flood, angry with people who sinned with the sons of God, the Lord said: “My Spirit is not forever to be neglected by men; because they are flesh; let their days be one hundred and twenty years. " This is where, dear readers, all the talk of scientists that a person should live 120 years. From the Bible. (If we take the "scientific formulas of the biblical chronology", it turns out that God gave us 10-12 years. Nonsense !!!)
And now let's take a close look at how the Lord's strict sentence to sinful mankind was carried out to reduce life from 969 Mafusailov years to 120.
The execution did not take place instantly, by the method of a Divine Miracle, as one might think: if someone hit 120 - immediately give God your soul! And gradually. Evolutionary. After the great flood.
Noah himself, having descended from the ark with his family and cattle, no longer experienced the joy of fatherhood. Although he lived another 350 years after the universal cataclysm. And he rested in Bose in 950. The earth was inhabited by numerous offspring of his sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. But in the Old Testament, according to tradition, the genealogy of only the firstborn of Noah is described in detail.
Shem himself, born before the Flood, lived 600 years, his son Arfaksad, who was born two years after the universal flood - 438, the grandson of Sal - 433, the great-grandson Eber - 464, the great-great-grandson Peleg - 239, Ragav - 239, Serukh - 230, Nahor - 148, Terah - 205. Son of Terah - the legendary "father of many tribes" Abraham - 175, his wife Sarah - 127. Son of Abraham Isaac - 180, grandson Jacob - 147, great grandson Joseph - only 110. The very wise Joseph, who predicted to the Egyptian Pharaoh seven fat years and seven hungry. After his death, his body was embalmed and placed in an ark in Egypt.
And soon the prophet Moses will lead all Jews out of Egyptian captivity to the Promised Land. Moses himself lived exactly 120 years, designated by the Lord. But here is his curious psalm:
“The days of our years are seventy years, and with a greater strength - eighty years;
and their best time is labor and illness, for they pass quickly, and we fly."
It was said even before the birth of Christ, but as if about us, the unfortunate 21st century.
Judging by the genealogy of Shem, it took a change of only a dozen generations of the descendants of the 950-year-old patriarch Noah for the life expectancy to sharply and steadily decrease. Frozen at our current level. What's wrong? A universal flood? But the water is gone, the earth is dry. And people did not stop sinning after the Flood. The burning of Sodom and Gomorrah for homosexuality happened under Abraham.
There are speculative pseudo-scientific hypotheses that before the Flood there was a huge steam-water dome over the earth's atmosphere. 12 meters thick! He, they say, like a screen, reliably protected the planet and the first people from harmful cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, absorbing more than 70% of the radioactive background. At the same time, it created a greenhouse effect, plus additional atmospheric pressure. Oxygen on the ground was 50 percent more. People lived as if in a giant greenhouse, combined with a healing hyperbaric chamber. All year round, supposedly, everything was blooming, fragrant. I breathed easily. Therefore, a person could run hundreds of kilometers tirelessly. No illnesses, they say. And if any illness happened, people quickly recovered. The food is natural all around, enriched with all vitamins and other additives.
And soon the prophet Moses will lead all Jews out of Egyptian captivity to the Promised Land. Moses himself lived exactly 120 years, designated by the Lord
During the flood, the heavens opened up, the entire layer of water poured onto the earth, flooded it. The protective screen disappeared, no salvation for the descendants of Noah from the evil cosmic radiation, ultraviolet radiation, all kinds of gamma-beta rays. Come mutations, degenerative changes, diseases, epidemics. And then the climate has changed, the earth's axis has shifted, a regular cold has appeared … That is why, they say, human life has become difficult, short.
But, I repeat, these are all amateur hypotheses not confirmed by the Bible.
Eat pineapples, chew herb
But this is what is indicated in the Bible itself in plain text! After creating a man and a woman in the first week, God said: "Behold, I have given you every herb that sows seed that is on all the earth, and every tree that has tree fruit that sows seed: this will be your food."
It turns out that the Creator created the first people as vegetarians. Clean. The so-called vegans. No eggs, caviar, milk, cheese and other gastronomic tricks with livestock and poultry products, as many modern vegetarians do. Only fruits, vegetables, cereals. From birth to death. No "fasting days". Eternal Fast!
Moreover, the Creator also made animals herbivores. “And to all the beasts of the earth,” and to all the birds of the air, and to everyone that creeps on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all herbal herbs for food. And it became so."
Imagine an idyll: lions, tigers, cows, wolves, hares, people are quietly walking together. Nobody eats anyone! And everyone lives for centuries.
But people did not appreciate such grace. They softened up, indulged in debauchery and other indecency. And outraged by this black ingratitude, the Lord decided to drown the sinners. And future generations will reduce their lives to 120 years. So that they do not spoil much. And therefore to Noah coming out of the ark with his family he gave a different covenant than to his distant ancestor Adam. “Let all the beasts of the earth fear and tremble at you, and all the birds of the air, all that moves on the earth, and all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. All that moves that lives will be food for you; as green herbs I give you everything. Later, through Moses, the Lord conveyed to people a large list of clean and unclean animals, fish, birds and reptiles, specifying who can be eaten and who is not.
As you can see, only the food has changed dramatically after the flood. A person was allowed to get off veganism, to eat meat, milk, eggs and other animal food, which, according to science, gives strength, fats and proteins necessary for the body. Only one and a half dozen generations of direct descendants of the antediluvian patriarch, 950-year-old Noah, have changed, as on animal food, life expectancy has sharply and inexorably reduced. Up to 120 years awarded by the Creator. And this is an exceptional case. Our usual destiny is still 70-80 years. What else in ancient times did Moses grieve in his famous psalm?
Presumably, it was meat-eating that became the Creator's humane instrument for the execution of his non-appealable verdict on the cardinal reduction of the life of sinful people.
And in memory of the golden ages of vegetarianism in Christianity, I believe, fasts have been preserved. On March 14, the strictest of them begins - the Great. It will run until May 1.
Surely ask why vegetarians today do not live much longer than meat eaters. Honestly, I don’t know. Although medicine does find small benefits of plant nutrition over animals. Perhaps because there are no generations of pure vegans who have eaten this way for several centuries without a single violation. Then you could see the results, compare statistics, genealogies, as in the Bible before and after the Flood. This is the business of scientists. There are many of them nowadays among vegetarians. Let them figure it out. My job as a journalist is to solve a biblical detective story about centenarians.
DIFFERENT OPINION
NOT MEAT, BUT SINS REDUCE OUR LIFE
Sergey ZUBOV, teacher of the Moscow Theological Academy:
Indeed, originally human food was vegetable: And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb that sows seed, which is on all the earth, and every tree that has a tree fruit that sows seed; - [this] will be food for you (Gen. 1:29).
The animals also did not eat meat.
Initially, man was potentially immortal, that is, immortality was given to him by God, his reason was in God. Man's task was, becoming like God in caring for creation, in obedience to God, to ascend from strength to strength and achieve likeness to Him. Since God is the source of life, then a man, becoming more and more like God, would reveal divine properties in himself - this process is endless, because God Himself is infinite.
The whole problem is not in "diet", but in violation of God's commandment. The Fall took place and the road to immortality was closed for man. After the fall, a person cannot but sin. Accordingly, if he is given eternal life, then this means an opportunity for infinite perfection in sins.
Therefore, God drives man out of Paradise: And the Lord God said: Behold, Adam has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, no matter how he stretched out his hand, and took also from the tree of life, and did not taste, and did not begin to live forever (Gen. 3:22). - God limits the human age, so that man cannot sin forever.
Note that not after the flood God shortens the duration of life, but before that: And the Lord said: It is not forever for My Spirit to be neglected by men; because they are flesh; let their days be one hundred and twenty years (Genesis 6: 3).
And permission to eat meat is given after the flood, rather, to strengthen a person, because, probably, the world and conditions of existence have changed.
Thus, according to Orthodox theology, the duration of a person's earthly life was reduced not because of the consumption of meat food, but because of the commission of sins:
1.the fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise - a person becomes mortal;
2. sins of antediluvian humanity - the human age is shortening.
In both cases, the reduction is due to a decrease in the time for confirmation of committing sins.
If we carefully read the book of Genesis, then we will see this very context, but not "vegetarianism" as a panacea for immortality.
In the book of the Wisdom of Solomon we read:
Do not hasten death by the errors of your life, and do not attract destruction to you by the works of your hands (Wis. 1: 12).
Righteousness is immortal, but unrighteousness causes death: the wicked attracted her with both hands and words, considered her a friend and waned, and entered into an alliance with her, for they are worthy to be her lot (Wis. 1: 15-16).
The Bible says about the influence on the duration of life: Honor your father and your mother, that your days on earth may be prolonged (Ex. 20, 12). At the very beginning, man did not honor the Father. And as a result - the person became mortal.
It turns out that the Creator created the first people as vegetarians. Clean. So called vegans
FIVE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF THE EARTH
All - women, age was documented.
1. Jeanne KALMAN, France. 122 years, 164 days. (1875-1997)
2. Sarah KNAUSS, USA. 119 years, 97 days. (1880-1999)
3. Lucy HANNA, USA. 117 years, 248 days (1875-1993)
4. Maria Louise MAILER, Canada. 117 years, 230 days (1880-1998)
5. Misao OKAWA, Japan. 117 years, 27 days (1898 - 2015)
BTW
BELIEVE - DO NOT BELIEVE?
The Flood is featured not only in the Christian Bible. Legends about him have survived in the myths and religious texts of many peoples of Australia, North and South America, India, Europe, Papua New Guinea, Japan, China, the Middle East … British anthropologist, historian of religions J. J. Fraser collected about a hundred such versions around the world … Legends about the first ancient centenarians - gods, kings - were also widespread among different peoples. Let us recall at least our Kashchei the Immortal.
Scientists-atheists often call the Bible a collection of myths, legends about the origin of the Earth, man, which have nothing to do with science. But, let's agree, the deeply scientific theory of the Big Bang about the origin of the Universe is also just a hypothesis, albeit the most widespread one. She has many critics in the scientific community. And alternative versions. The main thing is that there is still no answer, but what happened before the explosion? After all, an empty space does not explode. There are also critics of the scientific theory about the origin of man from ape. What is the origin! Modern scientists-gerontologists, biologists still cannot clearly explain why a person is aging. There are dozens of deeply scientific, clever theories on this score, sometimes mutually exclusive. Some academics believe that a person, like a combat missile, is programmed to self-destruct, others blame free radicals,causing "rust" of the body, the third - "slags", clogging up the body …
So everyone has the right to believe what he wants.
Evgeny CHERNIKH
