What does Scripture say about human longevity and ageing — is physical decline simply part of being fallen, or was it built into creation?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05042 The Bible’s early chapters record lifespans that strike modern readers as extraordinary: Methuselah lived 969 years, Adam 930, Noah 950. Within a few generations of the flood, those figures collapse dramatically until Moses writes in Psalm 90 about seventy or eighty years as the human allotment. This is not incidental data. It raises…