RE: Ask a Catholic
August 27, 2015 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 7:50 pm by Jenny A.)
(August 23, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm)abaris Wrote: Seriously?
So let's answer a question with a question. What evidence do you have that Methusaleh lived at all? And let's take it from there.
Only indirect evidence from the scriptures.
However, I asked my question thinking that he might have something specific he wanted to discuss.
I think you need to look up the definitions of direct and indirect evidence. There is no indirect or circumstantial evidence that I'm aware of that Methuselah lived 900 odd years or that he lived at all. What there is, is Genesis which says he did. That's direct evidence, just not very reliable direct evidence. The problem being that we don't know who wrote Genesis but it clearly wasn't someone alive in Methuselah's day. Hearsay, which is what Genesis is, isn't indirect, just not very reliable direct evidence.
Indirect evidence of Methuselah living 900 years would be direct evidence of someone alive in say the year 1000 BC and direct evidence that someone named Methuselah was living in 100 BC together with perhaps evidence that Methuselah was an uncommon name or a name only used around 1000 BC but not after say 900 BC.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.