People in ancient times used numbers differently than we do. If they claimed their King was 30,000 years old, it didn't mean he was 30,000 - it meant they considered him a very great person. Army sizes tended to see the same exageration - but it wasn't a lie. It was meant to communicate greatness or how impressed the hearer should be, not scientific data.
People in ancient times used numbers differently than we do
Says who?
You might want to consider taking a very close look at the Bible some day. The sixth day according to Genesis is THIS day. In other words, we are living in the sixth day. I tire sometimes of silly people attributing western ideas and concepts to the terminiology of the Bible.
I do not believe that there is a claim in the Bible of any person living more than 1000 years.
Genesis 5:1This is the book of the
generations of Adam. In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made he him;
(Whole Chapter:
Genesis 5 In context:
Genesis 5:1-2)
Genesis 2:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for
in the
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
(Whole Chapter:
Genesis 2 In context:
Genesis 2:16-18)
2 Peter 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one
day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a
thousand years as one
day.
(Whole Chapter:
2 Peter 3 In context:
2 Peter 3:7-9)