People haven’t always lived a mere 70-ish years. There was a time when people lived hundreds of years.
Two questions to ponder, regarding lifespan:
1) What significant event took place the year 969-year-old Methuselah died?
2) Prior to that event, people lived hundreds of years. Following that event, people gradually came to live fewer and fewer years. Did that “event” change the environment in such a way that humans just weren’t able to live as long as before?
EnglishCon — there’s a lot in Scripture. A lot that can be missed by digging deep into secular evolutionary theories, rather than digging deep into God’s Word and creation. It really is fascinating how it all comes together to support what it plainly says.
Indeed. For example, Noah's name has a numerical value of 58, and Noah died when Abraham was 58 years old. Similarly, the numerical value of "Shem" is 340, and the Haflagah (scattering of the nations at Babel) took place 340 years after the Flood.
All human history falls within the lifespans of seven men: Adam, Methuselah, Shem, Jacob, Amram, 'Achiyyah HaShiloni, and Elijah (who is still alive).
Of course, Protestants don't get it right either.