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What happened to man? What happened to Methuselah, the man as per scripture who came closest to attaining to that apparent ideal of 1000 years of carnal life?

“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?” Job 7:1 This actually relates to the stewardship which God gave to each of us: “The day of an hireling”. An employer hires many people to accomplish the work that needs to be done. Some will...

For a background here I am copying a few posts from another thread: @bbyrd009 @Waiting on him @Timtofly @Backlit Waiting on him said: The one thousand is a symbolic portrayal of a long period of time. Example; Psalm 50:10 KJV [10] For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a...

I have a few other things on this in my notes, but this thread is too complex and too messy for me. I will open another thread and hopefully it will not too quickly end up also in a similar mess of deep subjects and personal attacks.

Perhaps it is to God, but let us not laugh. I just tried to read the whole of the thread, which is difficult for me, to get some ideas about the 1000 years and the personal attacks distracted me so I quit. Not funny for me.

I believe I used the genealogy from Luke 3 which covers all the lineage from Adam to Jesus. I used a guessed number for all generation differences to set the number of years between people spaces from Adam to Methuselah. Then as I went through genealogies in OT and found actual ages I began to...

I am unable to connect all of the dots, but I agree that it is not so trivial. When we consider carefully so many things that are not very clear to us, how then may the full vision from God appear to us when and if we are able to see it clearly? If we could understand all of the sevens in...

What is physical life to God? "But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead." Matt 8:22 Jesus did bring something better but most men would never receive it: "...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10 When does...

I really don't suspect that he was: A long time ago I started building a chart using an Excel program in my computer. My chart used one row for each year from 3761BC moving downward to the birth of Jesus. From left to right in each column I entered the name of each person in the lineage on...

If he was still alive when the door to the ark was closed with him on the outside then he must have drowned. According to my Bible he was not one of the 8 people who did get on board. I do not believe that God would have stopped him, if he had really wanted to enter in...

My point was simply that on some things both the literal and symbolic may be both there in one events in the scriptures. For example in reading the OT we can sometimes understand the story of men actually living the events described and how their experiences with God or without Him affected...

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Could it not be both? How clearly does any one of us see?

And hearing that then let us also remember that the grandfather of Noah, Methuselah with the most years accounted to him in written scripture came up short not making it beyond the flood: "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he...

I certainly do believe that there is one Jesus, but how well do people who know him, know him? This too, I believe, is included in what Apostle Paul wrote here: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I...

I said nothing about the traditions of men. I told you what I believe, which had nothing to do with any traditions. I do not serve God according to any traditions, but by faith in God and His Word. You did not respond to my post directly at all. You are still presuming that I am on one side or...

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Their purpose is explained in Ephesians 4:11-14 and helpers to those in need of help to become what God wants them to become. What would you add to what Paul wrote there? When would it be that a person no longer needs those ministers to help him? What should a person do if an apparent minister...

Is not the Word of God alive, my friend? How does one recognize the Life in the Word of God? What brings the words of written scripture to Life? Is it not the quickening Spirit of God? Does the Spirit of God dwell in any paper Bible, whether it consists of 66 books or 73? Or could it be that the...

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