Divide Methuselah’s age by 12.
Divide Methuselah’s age by 12
Adam Sanchez
Nicholas Price
and...?
Ian Hernandez
What happens?
Andrew Richardson
I got 80.75. Is that supposed to mean something?
Matthew Baker
Yes. Methuselah supposedly lived 969 years. But the 365 day calendar didn’t exist back then. Lunar calendars were more common. So dividing 969 by 12 equals 80.75, a more reasonable lifespan.
Brayden Richardson
I think Ezekiel described Thale’s eclipse with his ‘wheel within a wheel’.
Lucas Rivera
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Jack Stewart
A lunar cycle is only 28 days. That would mean a year of 13.04 months (13 is close enough among Yea Forumsros).
So 969 / 13 = 74.5 years.
Not too shabby and much more reasonable than a near millennium. Thanks for the info Yea Forumsro.
I'm gonna go commit the sin of Onan now.
Logan Richardson
I hadn’t thought of that.
Aaron Robinson
Why are we dividing by anything? A year is a year. It's a rotation around the sun. They understood that. The Hebrew lunar calendar is 11 days shorter than calendars used today and they added a "leap month" every couple years to try to make up for it.
Now, everything about the story is horseshit, but at least use some logic.
Angel Gonzalez
Counting a lunar cycle as their metric for a 'year' is a feasible explanation for a tradition that a man could live 900 years.
Dominic Davis
Logically, 969 Julian or Gregorian years is horseshit.
Perhaps the meaning of the word ‘year’ changed from lunar month to solar year or perhaps the OG translators mistranslated it.
If anyone actually lived to be 969 years, then I’m a five star field marshal general of the armies.
Aiden Adams
I could believe he lived 969 months or lunar cycles but people actually believe he lived 969 years. Jerome believed the wheel within a wheel were the apostles and disciples and not Thale’s eclipse which was visible to Babylon during Ezekiel’s life. And in vitro fertilization could make any virgin preggers.
Jacob Allen
So, in those same passages they mention Enoch, "who was 65 years at the birth of Methuselah". I guess by the same logic, he was 5 when he fathered Methuselah?
Noah Edwards
Or Nahor, who would've had a child at 2 and a half
Cameron Nelson
If they had 10 year old wives, why would he wait until 65 to father a child? 5 is closer to the puberty age then 65 is to the erectile dysfunction age.
Also, apparently Enoch didn’t die. He walked with God directly to heaven.
Anthony Anderson
And died at 17.
Christian White
And those ages were passed down by oral tradition so what began as assault might have turned into marriage or vice versa.
Luke Martin
My formula would be to take 969/the bible is a bunch of made-up stories and that equals: the dude probably never even existed.
Benjamin Edwards
The CIA should translate the Book of Mormon and Harry Potter into Arabic so that they can start the polygamist Church of the Boy who Lived. Harry Potter saves...his money.
Jaxon Garcia
And somehow a year later, some idiot set his friends on fire in Tunisia.
Nolan Walker
Parts have some truth to them, but others are no different than the myths you'd laugh at in any other culture. Sure, there once was a very old man. He did not live 969 years.
Joshua Walker
Lucky charms.
Austin Russell
I got 99 problems but a bitch ass dictator ain’t one.
James Brooks
Send MS13 to Venezuela.