Genesis
5:6 ¶ And Seth lived an hundred and five
years, and begat Enos: 7 And Seth lived
after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and
daughters: 8 And all the days of Seth
were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. 9 And Enos lived ninety years, and begat
Cainan: 10 And Enos lived after he begat
Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred
and five years: and he died. 12 And Cainan
lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: 13
And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty
years, and begat sons and daughters: 14
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five
years, and begat Jared: 16 And
Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat
sons and daughters: 17 And all the days
of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. 18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two
years, and he begat Enoch: 19 And Jared
lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
20 And all the days of Jared were nine
hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
We learned in the
last chapter that it was during Enos’ time that men called out to God and
wanted to know Him as the cross-reference through Romans shows us the use of
the phrase call upon the name of the Lord.
Two contrasting religious impulses are generated. One based on a heartfelt
desire to worship God understanding that it is only by the shedding of blood
that sin can be dealt with as Hebrews 9:22 says without shedding of blood is no remission and the other following a
manner that God rejected and that did not reflect the consequences of sin or
God’s approval.
With regard to the
long lives of the people in the Pre-Flood world a combination of environment
and low frequency of genetic damage must have permitted this based on God’s
permissive will. Experiments on worms today has shown that by manipulating
genes lifespan can be increased fourfold which, for humans, would mean an
extension to 300 years roughly. It is not difficult to imagine, with an
environment providing protection from too much radiation, a natural diet, and
genome that had not deteriorated to the extent it has today, that living in the
range of a thousand years is not unimaginable and having the characteristics of
youth to a much longer age is quite understandable with God permitting a slow
reduction in lifespan.[1]
[1]
The Tech Museum of Innovation, “Why Do We Age and Is There Anything We Can Do
About It?” http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news10.
(accessed 7.10.2016).
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