How Long Do Humans Live?

How Long Do Humans Live?

Two things in this life are definitely certain, being in the flesh and then fading to the thought of a memory, for they are inevitable actions that will eventually take place. There is no guaranteeing when the events could take place but rather, the best human beings can do is approximate its average range depending on several factors within the country such as safety, disease, agriculture, and the environment. According to The Bible, life on earth for a human being is limited. Which is true, however; the bible adds a limit of 120 years. Although it has also reasoned that the earth will be in existence forever which is in a clear contradiction to modern scientific discoveries.  (click here for The Earth existing forever?)

“Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years. When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 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.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
”(6 Genesis 3)

However; this does not apparently apply to Shem. The son of the Prophet Noah.

 “And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.” (Genesis 11:11)

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges has stated the following:

The mention of the marriages between “the sons of God” and “the daughters of men” is clearly a survival of early Hebrew mythology. It accounted for the existence of an Israelite tradition respecting a primitive race of giants. There are traces, in the literature of other countries, of a similar belief in fabulous giants, or semi-divine heroes, who lived in a far-remote age of antiquity. The tradition preserved in this brief fragment is condensed, and the language is not free from obscurity.

The comments are in regards to the legitimacy of Hebrew mythology and nothing in relation to the age limit. Furthermore,

"As an isolated survival of Hebrew mythology, it furnishes an instructive reminder, that the popular ideas of Israel concerning primeval times may be presumed, at least originally, to have resembled those of other nations. They were pervaded by fanciful and legendary elements. We must realize that the spiritual teaching of the religion of Jehovah was responsible for an extensive purgation of the traditions which described the beginnings of the world and of the Israelite people. Polytheistic and unedifying materials were most successfully excluded in the compilation of the Hebrew sacred books."

Several of the commentators including the likes of Elliot’s, Benson’s, Matthew Henry’s, Pulit’s and Barnes commentaries have all ignored the limits of days regarding a human’s life span. Which is an additional error that cannot go unnoticed.

Shem is not a Prophet therefore how could this attribute apply to him? As it is written that he had lived for 500 years when in Genesis it reads that a man’s days shall be the number of one-hundred and twenty years? Christians usually assert the fact that he is the son of the prophet named Noah, so that means it does not contradict the issue of 6 Genesis 3. Which could be reasonable argument. However, that is only one issue resolved and not the other one. The Bible still declares the limit of a human’s years to be a hundred and twenty. An Indonesian man named Mbah Gotho, verified by the Indonesian government is the current oldest living man alive at the age of 145. (1)   There was also another one of the oldest living verified person, who was a French woman named Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122. (2) (3) (4)

In conclusion: 

The Bible is incorrect in its attempts to write the limit to a human beings lifespan in stone. Instead of writing that the knowledge is far beyond our power as moral humans. It decided to set a bar for the age limit which has recently been broken by a few individuals who have well lived past the one-hundred and twenty year mark.  

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