Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Drich]

From Adam to Noah
Genesis 5

I'm going to be quick here, only because this chapter doesn't have much for me to comment on.

Basically, we see in the early times of Biblical "history" that men used to live up to almost a millennium ... and that it was possible to have kids at the age of 180 or even 500 years of age. Quite outlandish from a literal perspective, so perhaps the numbers are meant to be symbolic, who knows. One also wonders whether these numbers were randomly assigned, or there is a pattern to them.

Anyway, if you're not a fan of genealogies and amazingly long lifespans, this chapter will be boring to you. I personally like this chapter, though. And it does briefly mention Enoch who "walked faithfully with God" and thereby was taken away by God after only (lol) 365 years of living on earth.

And, yes, Methuselah is the man who lived the longest time on earth (969 years). According to the Bible, at least.

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note the gregorian calendar (the 365 day year) was not the measure of a year. it was a lunar based calendar that some say was close while others counted full moons or harvest moons while others still says it was longer than our solar year. not talking about the hebrew clendar which is basically the same as ours but some ancient moon based system..

wow,we are worlds apart on this how can you ever say it is ok to kill your brother? hate to be a member of your household if it were known i voted trump if being killed over a few goats is ok in your mind! when is 100 goat lives equal to 1 person? Especially if he is up standing guy

I didn't say it was ok to kill one's brother. I said that I can somewhat intellectually understand why one would be driven to kill their own brother, given a set of assumptions that I admitted to projecting of course.

the dead sea scrolls contain several copies of the book of genesis dating from 300 bce (300 years before christ) to 1 ce and mirror each other almost perfectly. which are consistent with our modern translations.

I'm not sure you understood my argument here. I'm suggesting that Genesis 3:15 was not meant to be a Messianic prophecy.

that seems to be the trend with some..