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How did God modify human DNA?

Classik

Classik

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You know, men used to live very long. Methuselah is a typical example.
Men sinned and God got angry and reduced the number of years.
 
Classik said:
You know, men used to live very long. Methuselah is a typical example.
Men sinned and God got angry and reduced the number of years.
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You should look into a book called Corrupting the Image by Douglas Hamp. I have not read it, so I can not tell you how it is. But I believe it may touch on that.
 
Corrupting the Image by Douglas Hamp? I will look for it.

I believe we must have been modified after the fall and also after God reduced the number of years we are to live. although the bible states we are to live for a particular number of years; it is not strict on that; a few have lived beyond that - yet i dont think anyone has lived up to 200yo


so im just trying to compare the remains of people of those days (if the bones still exist) with ours
 
Why would He have modified it at all? He created it perfectly from the beginning to act and react as it was designed.
 
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years." Genesis 6:3 NIV
 
Personally, I think the firmament falling and causing the Flood is what did it along with genetic mutations and disease. When you think about it we lost a lot of protection from the sun when that happened and that could greatly affect our lifespan. Of course then there's the ever popular Lutheran saying: "The Bible doesn't say."
 
If I'm not mistaken this came up on this board some place before. Seems I recall it was stated that we all have a live forever gene, but it just doesn't activate. If that is the case, that would make perfect sense for it to be made inactive after the original sin, so just another slight tweak and we live no longer than, what was it, 120 years?

God has an unusual control (unusual to us) over nature, as in parting the seas and walking on water and there are indications we have some of that same control with enough faith. The best I can gather, is he Zaps things into happening, unlike us who have to do those things in a lab, if we can do them at all. He did make man from dust and breathed into him the breath of life but for all I know, he did the full CPR thing to get him going but the only part mentioned, was the breath, no biggy but to make man from scratch, and out of dust? I would love to know how he did that.

Things like building man, was that something he, and maybe the angels worked on for billions of years to perfect or did he just zap them into being? The dinosaurs? What was that all about? An experiment in life that led to making man? Something to test the possibility of life/man to survive and thrive in this atmosphere/on earth?

Does God learn? What exactly do they mean when they say God is perfect? I was under the impression that meant "mature". Does God trip and fall like the rest of us and learn from mistakes? One can be perfect in the sense I mentioned and still make mistakes. Or does he always know what's ahead and never had to learn a thing and has never made a mistake or wrong decision and learned from it?

So many questions and I guess I got carried away there. :)
 
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That's one possible interpretation. OTOH, humans were still around after the ark. Noah's family was allowed to repopulate the earth, but not do the 969 year Methuselah thing.
 
He didn't. We kill ourselves off early with the polluted lifestyle we call modern living. We fill our bodies, air, and soil with toxins that gradually kill our bodies off, perhaps hundreds of years early. We maintain blood cortisol levels that would kill an elephant, and for what- money, status, fancy cars and designer clothes. Were we to live in true harmony with God's plan, our bodies would live on average for hundreds vs. tens of years. Our DNA actually codes for much longer lifespans than we ever see any more.

Or so I've heard.
 
Deborah13 said:
What did God say to the scientist who said he could create a man, like God did, "Get your own dirt."
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LOL!

I heard that one or something similar, I think it was a more involved Joke but the same ending as you mentioned.

I loved it. :)
 
Maybe I did see it here now that I think about it. Don't remember either...with all that goes on on these boards, we do well to recall anything more than what we do.
 
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