which are the main reasons for people to live longer in the past (bible contemporary)?
449472
Well, I'm not positive as to why they lived longer BEFORE the time of Noah... but I do know that in Genesis, it mentions that the life of man would be shortened.\n\nGenesis 6:3 says "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."
74155
God has limited man's life to 120 years- you can read it in Genesis chapter 6. Before that, men like Noah lived to be over 500 years old (Shem was born to Noah when he was 502).\n\nThe days were also shorter (360-day years vs. 365-day years), which accounts for the 130 year-old Jehoiada.
655103
Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
201746
No. It's more likely that the life expectancy is somewhat like ours - a balance between amount of children/year and/or lifetime versus likelihood of death before mature age. An animal that doesn't die within a thousand years would have very few kids and live in a very static world. The reason for why we die so "often" here is because of changes. Changes in weather, temperature, predators, availability of food, diseases etc. If we didn't die there would be a big chance of extinction due to either famine or low odds of mutations protecting the being from the change.
1131198
To start with, living a long time starts with genetics, which you have no control over.\n\nBeyond that, the less food you consume, and the more exercise you get over your lifetime, the longer you are likely to live.  In fact, it has been proven that starving yourself leads to a longer life span.\n\nEat very little fat, lots of rice, vegetables and fish.  Do not smoke, use drugs, or engage in unsafe behavior.  Avoid stress, become a simple farmer.\n\nYou can drink wine in small quantities, a couple glasses a week at most.\n\nAfter you have done those things, the next possibilities become more extreme.  You can take a very expensive regimin of vitamins and antioxidants that will help your cells resist ageing.\n\nLive long and prosper!
325420
It's not a good idea to compare educational levels of people who lived 2,000 years ago to people who live today.  \n\nNot to mention, one'e level of education is not reflective of their character.  It's better to be a good person than to be a smart one.
890310
Probably as soon as we started the rites for people that died.  Life back then probably seemed rather random and capricious.  There wasn't much that was known about the world, so people clung to things like ancestor worship and sun worship to try to gain some control over the randomness of life.
1032098
Yes the Bible does have wonderful historical facts and events. But these are things that actually happened. The Bible foretold things 200 years before they ever happened. The Bible is a guide for us and how to live our lives so that we can have everlasting happiness. The Bible is the word of God, his thoughts, his teachings, and his aid to us to guide us through life.
690876
Not sure.  I question how fulfilling life would be at 140 (or even 80 for that matter).  Makes me think of immortality.  Perhaps immortality already exists through our offspring, history and the impact we have on the world.  I don't know but perhaps one reason why people would want to extend their natural life is due to fear of the inevitable.
526330
My reason for living is to carry the word of God to those who don't know Him, and to bring comfort and peace to those in dire needs.\n\nI have peace in so called death knowing that by the promise God has given me I will have eternal life, not death.
1099842
well its not a very long span of time so there will be very very minute changes.. if we remain alive, then i think some of the changes can be:\n1) average height will reduce\n2) we will develop some adaptations in our skin, lungs and eyes to protect ourselves from pollution\nand many other possible changes...\nwe must not say that we wont be alive after 20000 years.... always hope for the best........\nLETS MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
1092117
this is a nice question\n&we can resolve the ans by the diff of current life & the life before 500 yrs\nthe biological changes wold be\n1 lose of appendix &nicetin membrane\n2 lose of the smallest fingures of legs\n\n\ntecnology will be much more advance\nwe might not go to office &schools
857800
Sure, and people used to live for over 900 years. Makes perfect sense. NOT!
946954
You need to remember that Adam and Eve lived for years, Adam was 930 years old when he died and they had many children, who must have married among themselves, and quickly develoed into a large population. After a hundred years or so, there would have been considerably sized cities growing up. The Bible does not say that everything that happened to Cain happened to him when he was young. After 400 years he could have been living in a city of several thousand people.
333643
Health is more important than ever, because of increased longevity.
1040496
That was society at the time. I'm an atheist (just for your info) and I think the Bible has a lot of good advice in it (don't kill etc), but you have to take it as something that was written a very long time ago. Your quotes are cultural, and of the time, more than religious, word-of-God and so on. That doesn't mean they're right though.
90073
The question is not why do girls live longer, the question is why do men die before women...BECASUE THEY WANT TO!!