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What does it mean that people in the Bible lived hundreds of years?
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Some say that this was because Adam and Eve were created perfect and the people of The Bible had not yet developed the inherited weaknesses that lead to shorter lives. Two immediately apparent problems with this are that only the patriarchs seem to have had long lives, while, for example, the Egyptians did not. Another is that the lifespans suddenly became quite normal as biblical history approached the time in which the readers lived, and have not declined in the thousands of years since.
An alternative reasoning is that such long recorded lives simplify genealogies, because in the biblical story each person in the Israelite family tree had to be treated as a hero, with important contributions made to the development of the nation. In the earlier Mesopotamian mythology, some lifespans reached as much as five thousand years.
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