How many lifetimes?
Monday, February 19th, 2007
My mother and I were discussing this site over lunch today, and she found my theory of counting history by lifetimes intriguing, and it occurred to me that I might take that a little bit further, while we are reading Adam and His Kin.
I’ve explained that I adhere to the young earth theory, and that will give us about 6,000 years of BC history, and of course about 2000 of AD history, rounding off a bit. That’s about 8,000 years. Given an average lifespan of 75 years, that’s just 106 lifetimes. Now I know that the lifespan has not always been 75 years, and so do you. But Biblical life spans were much longer, and that helps to balance the much shorter life spans during the middle ages.
My point with that is this: 8000 years ago can be hard to grapple with, mentally. 106 lifetimes is much easier to get a handle on, and shows that the course of human history is not as long as we sometimes think. And consider this: Adam had lived almost two of those lifetimes before his first child was born. We’ll get more into this later, but if you find it helpful, I’ll try to add in how many lifetimes ago certain things happened as we study.
I’ll be back here on Wednesday, and we’ll continue with Adam and his Kin
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