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From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Origin of man
Message-ID: <284@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 16:22:52 EST
Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.284
Posted: Mon Mar 25 16:22:52 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 06:33:21 EST
References: <23193@lanl.ARPA> <281@scgvaxd.UUCP> <150@magic.ARPA>
Reply-To: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
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Summary: 

In article <150@magic.ARPA> jdd@magic.UUCP (John DeTreville) writes:
>
>        However, at this early period of time, the effects of sin
>        (death) were not so advanced and the human specimen was not
>        as imperfect as today.  This is why the people of this era
>        lived for hundreds of years.
>
>Well, yeah, and also because they counted in months, later mistranslated to
>years.  But it seemed like longer because they were so perfect.
>
>Cheers,
>John ("Southern Baptist") DeTreville
>DEC SRC, Palo Alto

 If this is true, then after the flood when God said that mans life span
 would be 120 years, and this is really months, from that time on men
 would live to be 10 years old. Gee, That means Sarah gave birth to Isaac
 when she was 7 and a half. And she thought she was too old?

				  Dan