![]() ![]() This means that a person will live forever. He gives to those who believe in Him eternal life (John 3:16). That is to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. How to Have the Longest Life There is only one true way to have the longest life span of all. This is because of the simple fact that a rest worker is a more productive and capable worker than if they work seven days a week, week after week. In fact, as a former manager, I understood that most people can get more done on six days than in seven. He knows we need to rest and this is part of the reason He commanded the Sabbath day to rest. God commanded a Sabbath-rest in the Old Testament and there still remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God today (Heb. For most of Western society it is Sunday. Most people in Western Civilizations have at least one day of rest. A proper day of rest is also of supreme importance. The way to lengthen life is to eat a balanced diet, don’t smoke, don’t drink excessive amounts of alcohol, avoid drugs, particularly illicit drugs, and to exercise at least three times a week. The correlation is sin shortens life…and the sins of man, e.g., in industrial waste, fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, hasten the end of a person’s life. Diet, access to alcohol, drugs, and environmental factors are the greatest contributors to human’s life spans. It is less in less developed nations but longer in other nations that are, paradoxically, less developed. Today the average life span of a man is nearing 70 and is close to 75 for women. These sins cause a person’s life to be take away in a more rapid sense that the average. We know that drinking in excess and drug abuse (being illegal) destroy brain cells, the liver, and other muscular and neurological systems. These sins are known to shorten a person’s life. It is no surprise that today there are more drug and alcohol addictions and abuse than ever before. Rebellion against God always incurs a cost. ![]() 6:23), this could extend to the creation itself. And when there is a separation from the Life Giver, then life ebbs. It corrupts humans, it corrupts even the creation as noted in Romans 8:22, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.“ Sin is seen as a disease and it separates man from God. The fall also may have produced disease and sickness since the ground was now cursed.īy the time the Psalms were being written, the lifespan of mankind had shrunk closer to what they are today, as testified in Psalm 90:10, “The length of our days is seventy years–or eighty, if we have the strength yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Sin Destroys Thorns and thistles were found in the earth and man had to work hard to produce food. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.” So here is part of the reason. God Curses the GroundĪfter the fall of man, God said to Adam in Genesis 3:17-18, “To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat fro m it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Even nature itself would be feeling the effects of sin. No longer would the environment be perfect. God cursed the land after Adam and Eve sinned. The creation had fallen with the fall of man. The effects of the fall of man, which happened in the Garden of Eden, had an effect. By the time Abraham was born, the life spans had shrunk considerably.Įven though Abraham lived to 175 years, Moses lived only 120 years. Sin is destructive and the continuing sin through the generations had a cumulative effect. That is until sin entered the human race. Perhaps the first generations of humans lived such long lives because they were so close to the man that God created and what God creates was perfect from the beginning. They were more perfect in health, size, and stature. Adam was the first human created and must have been nearly perfect. Progressively, each generation lived shorter and shorter lives. Adam lived to the age of 930 years, his son Seth lived 912, his son Lamech lived 777 years, Lamech’s son Noah lived to 950 years, his son Shem lived 600 years. The first few humans recorded in the Bible, in particular the Old Testament, lived an exceedingly long number of years. Why were life spans of people living in biblical times so much long then than they are today? What has changed? Why did people in the Old Testament live for hundreds of years before the flood drop dramatically after the flood? Why do people living today live much shorter life spans than in the days in which the Bible was written? Long Lives in the Ancient Days ![]()
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