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To: CynicalBear; boatbums
There are three ways the word generation is used in scripture. 1. It can be used to denote a physical family generation. 2. It can be used to denote the spiritual family or generation of evil. 3. And it can be used to denote the spiritual family or generation of Christ.

Bring on the evidence. A generation is the span of time between parents and offspring. In the shorter lifespan of those in Biblical times, that was 20-25 years. With our greater lifespan, that has increased to 25-30 years.

Give it up. Your twists and turns are interesting, but there are only so many knots you can make.

2,083 posted on 09/08/2011 5:09:17 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move m to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
>>Give it up. Your twists and turns are interesting, but there are only so many knots you can make.<<

How about we just go to scripture.

• When looking at that use of the word generation we have an example in Deuteronomy as it pertains to those who were not allowed to enter the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

It took 38 years for the generation of those men of war to die off. Notice they were “men of war” prior to those 38 years. They had not just been born when Moses lead them into the wilderness.

Then look at Numbers 14 to see how old those “men of war” were when they entered the wilderness.

Numbers 14:29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

So we see that those men were at least 20 years old when the entered the wilderness and it took another 38 years for that generation to be gone. So the length of that generation was at least 58 years. Looks to me like God looks at a generation different then you do. You know what? I’m going with God’s definition in that case.

BTW You keep asking questions and making sport but you never answered mine. How many generations between Adam and Jesus? You’re not scared of that question are you?

2,098 posted on 09/08/2011 5:38:55 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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