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Did God afterwards change man's genetic information?

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Has anyone thought about the possibility that God kind of re-created or re-modified man (change of our body chemistry, sort of) after man continously sinned?
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Genesis 6:3 NKJV
And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.â€

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Man used to live up to a thousand years old. Some lived a thousand years + (probably - although it is not recorded)

God decided to change everythin and we no longer live very long (although some claim that some have exceeded 120 years old ...and God has deliberately allowed that for a purpose... maybe)

It makes me think that God kind of altered man's body chemistry...affecting our gene.
I guess: (this is just a guess)
*menopause was around 600 yrs and not around 50 - because they lived long .
*People began aging seriously around 650 yrs old. (And I wonder what those men looked like if aging process were to begin around 70 - they would look kind of fierce. A 500 yr old woman would be very very very very alarmingly old)
* Growth was very slow, @ 100 yrs you are still a kid

The verse above makes me think that God probably did something that has reflected on man's life:dunno:shrug:confused.

What do you think (this is just a guess)
 
Or could it be that it was the length of time was what He changed, somehow shortening it.

Because of sin's effect, what would have been seen in a thousand(?) years of man's life, is now played out in what we now call 70.

We still face consequences, but in a shorter period of time.

That would be mercy! HAHA



Be blessed, Stay blessed, and be Bold!
 
Bonairos said:
Or could it be that it was the length of time was what He changed, somehow shortening it.

Because of sin's effect, what would have been seen in a thousand(?) years of man's life, is now played out in what we now call 70.

We still face consequences, but in a shorter period of time.

That would be mercy! HAHA



Be blessed, Stay blessed, and be Bold!
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Good thinking.
Long time no see.:salute
 
Maybe He just removed His hand of protection and allowed the DNA to destroy its own good aspects, gradually producing weaker and weaker offspring and bringing more susceptibility to disease and senility into the world.
 
me again. I just thought of something. In the NT, we're told that if we sin seriously enough, we're "handed over" to the consequences of our sins. Maybe that's what happened to human health? God didn't suddenly say "Death will come sooner for you" so much as He handed us over to the ill-effects of sin--and sin brings death--and then ill health and disease became a bigger part of the human experience?
 
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Christ_empowered said:
me again. I just thought of something. In the NT, we're told that if we sin seriously enough, we're "handed over" to the consequences of our sins. Maybe that's what happened to human health? God didn't suddenly say "Death will come sooner for you" so much as He handed us over to the ill-effects of sin--and sin brings death--and then ill health and disease became a bigger part of the human experience?
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Just a thought. Why do all organisms then die, age, and are susceptible to disease and genetic defects? Mostly just bouncing a thought around.
 
Christ_empowered said:
Maybe He just removed His hand of protection and allowed the DNA to destroy its own good aspects, gradually producing weaker and weaker offspring and bringing more susceptibility to disease and senility into the world.
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Just curious, whey would animals, bacteria, and plants also suffer from this problem then? Not trying to start something. Just curious what your thoughts are on this. :)
 
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It would be interesting to figure out how Adam and Eve kept time cycles. We know the calander hadn't been invented and tribes used moon cycles, er...seems somewhere we find that in Exodus. Hard to know what a year was in the exact beginning or how long they really lived. We know men were marking dates on sticks and bones dated back to 20,000 years ago.
 
Ace1234 said:
It would be interesting to figure out how Adam and Eve kept time cycles. We know the calander hadn't been invented and tribes used moon cycles, er...seems somewhere we find that in Exodus. Hard to know what a year was in the exact beginning or how long they really lived. We know men were marking dates on sticks and bones dated back to 20,000 years ago.
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And somehow I am attempting to correlate man's lifespan, as I know it, with time, as I know it. I conclude that there is much more to God than, "as I know it". HAHA


I like the (expansion of) thinking on this thread.



Be blessed, Stay blessed, and be Bold!
 
I have always figured that the shortening life span of human beings described in the early pages of Genesis was a function of something like the 2nd Law of Thermodymics. At the beginning our bodies were perfectly constructed, built for eternity, resulting in dramatically long life relatively speaking. However, once the brokenness introduced by the fall set in, imperfections in our biology begin to produce progressively shorter lifespans until a baseline of roughly 65-100 years is reached. In other words, no divine change in our genetic info was necessary, it's purely a natural process.

All systems, including biological ones, break down over time.
 
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