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As I said, you have a very cruel god, or a pretty incompetent one, who can only get it right 60% of the time. That was an F, when I went to school.

As I have said, God didn't bring death or illness into the world.

God's gotten life right 100% of the time. However, the first humans misused their God-given free will and brought death and illness into the world.

Of course, if God hadn't given Adam and Eve free will, they could not have made such a bad choice.

Maybe they would have lived forever if they didn't have free will. Then again, life would be less enjoyable if we were essentially brainwashed into acting good.

My theory is that when Adam and Eve "ate the apple" they mutated their DNA. That could explain the longer lifespans of the earlier humans mentioned in the Bible.

Human DNA gradually became more corrupted in succeeding generations, leading to more frailty and earlier deaths.

"As I have said, God didn't bring death or illness into the world."

"My theory is that when Adam and Eve "ate the apple" they mutated their DNA. That could explain the longer lifespans of the earlier humans mentioned in the Bible. "

So, let me get this straight, fruit flys ate a whole lot of the apple, because they only live three days, and so they must have a lot of 'knowledge'. And all other non-human living things munched on that apple too, as god did not bring death into the world (and all living things die).

As far as the 'old age' of people in the ancient bible, in those days, there was no astronomy, and no 'years', but there were 'moons'. In fact, even today, the Arabs use a calender with a 'moonly' calculation, and their 'years' are much shorter than ours, and their months are one cycle of the moon. Now, if you figure that there are about 13 lunar months in a year, and divide the long lived ancient's ages by 13, you will find that their life spans were about the same as more modern men, and that the 'oldest', Mathuzela, at 900 'years' old, would be about 69, which in ages when average life expectancy was probably 25-30 years old, would be 'ancient'.

271 - "As I have said, God didn't bring death or illness into the world."

Then god didn't bring life either. As, the only way for there to be death is for there first to be life.

There can be no light without darkness.

There can be no nothing without something.

Death, like life is a comparative term, and cannot be without something to compare it to.