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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:50 am
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Just beyond the southern edge of Parque Nacional del Teide and just outside Vilaflor, 'Fat Pine' is a fabulous 800-year-old specimen of Canarian pine tree (Pinus canariensis), with a trunk girth of 9.8m. The pine is also over 45m tall, making it a particularly imposing and towering example of this robust species of tree.
Adam was 930 years old when he died (Genesis 5:5), and his children and grandchildren shared similarly long life spans. Not counting Enoch, the ten patriarchs who were born before the Great Flood of Noah’s time lived an average of 900 years. Adam’s son Seth lived to be 912 years (Genesis 5:9). Lamech, Noah’s father, died the youngest at age 777 (Genesis 5:31); and Methuselah, Noah’s grandfather, lived the longest. He died at age 969 (Genesis 5:27). If Adam had lived a mere century longer, he would have been alive for the birth of Noah. Source
Adams age does not seem so impossible now does it as some would have it...
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:57 pm
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As an aside, the source link (GotQuestions) is referring to a false theory. There was rain before Noah’s flood: Scripture suggests the only reason there wouldn’t be shrubs and plants, and thus no rain sent, was because there wasn’t a human to work the land.
Genesis 2:5 New International Version
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Footnotes
a. Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6 b. Genesis 2:6 Or mist c. Genesis 2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20).
Adam gets created in 2:7. So, before Noah’s day, there would have been rain, and shrubs, and plants.
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