Genesis 6:3-5
King James Version
3 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.
4 There were giants in the earth in
those days; and also after that, when
the sons of God came in unto the
daughters of men, and they bare children
to them, the same became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually.
This sets the precedent for how long
each generation can span after the
flood.
Prior to the flood men lived in excess
of 900 years prior to death. so the
generations prior to the flood span a
much much longer time period.
In the creation account, we are told
that God created the earth and all that
is in it in 6 days.On the 6th day God
created man.
Genesis 5:5
King James Version
5 And all the days that Adam lived were
nine hundred and thirty years: and he
died.
Genesis 6
3 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.
Genesis 9
28 And Noah lived after the flood three
hundred and fifty years.
29 And all the days of Noah were nine
hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Peter 3:8-9
King James Version
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this
one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand
years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.
So according to scripture, before man
arrived on the earth since God began
creation 5000 years had already passed.
Man was created on the 6th day or, as it
would be, the 6000th year.
The 7000th year, God rested from all His
labor. So the 7th day of creation God
rested. 1 day to God is 1000 years.
From this, we know that adam died in the
year 6000.
Genesis 2:17
“But of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.”
The 6000th year, when man was created,
was but one day to God. Adam didn't live
past that day, because he only lived 930
years. In man's time frame from a human
perspective, God would not yet rest yet
at year 7000 for another 70 years.
The entire span God rested was one day
or 1000 years.
From adam until noah, each generation
lasted nearly 1000 years in total.
After the flood, God set the age of a
generation at 120 years.
Moses lived to be 120 years old.
Noah was Adam's great-great-great-
great-great-great-great grandson.
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.
After the flood, the average human life
span began to shrink drastically. The
post-flood patriarchs from Noah’s son
Shem (who died at 600) to Peleg (who
died at 239) lived an average of 435
years. By Abraham’s time, humans were
living less than 200 years. In the days
of Moses, who was considered very old
when he died at 120, the average person
lived only to age 70 or 80: “The years
of our life are seventy, or even by
reason of strength eighty” (Psalm 90:10,
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What we call the fifth chapter of
Genesis calls itself "the book of the
generations of Adam." We might
paraphrase this as "the people generated
by Adam" (all male, incidentally). In
other words, this is Adam's family tree.
Here are the ages of Adam and his
descendants, as listed in this chapter:
Adam 930 years (70)
Seth 912 years (88)
Enos 905 years (95)
Cainan (or Kenan) 910 years (90)
Mahalaleel 895 years (105)
Jared 962 years (38)
Enoch 365 years (635)
Methuselah 969 years (31)
Lamech 777 years (223)
Noah 950 years (50)
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Adding up the life span of all of the
patriachs from Adam to Noah gleans us
8575 years.
Add 5000 to that for the 5 years prior
to God creating man and we then have
13,575 years since God began creation
upon earth until Noah died.
We don't count the 6 and 7th day because
God created man on the 6th day. it's
already included in the count so we only
add 5 days to the total not 6 and/or 7.
5 days equal 5000 years.
How Many Human Generations Are There
from Adam Until Today?
In Luke 3, we even have a full biblical
lineage from Adam to Jesus through
notable progenitors, like Noah, Shem,
Abraham, David, and Joseph (Mary’s
husband), who was only the supposed
father of Jesus (Luke 3:23). The full
genealogy from Adam to Jesus was 76
clearly listed generations, and from
Noah to Jesus, it was 66.
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However, A generation prior to the flood
was nearly a 1000 year span. After the
flood it went down to 120.
To find out how old Creation is at this time we are currently alive, we need to add 13,575 years to the number of years since Noah's death until now.
A rough estimate of how many years Jesus was born after the flood is 2000 years, so we add that to the 13,574 years for a total of 15,574. However, Noah was only 600 when the flood came and he lived to be 950 years old, so we minus 350 from that to get 15,224
Then we calculate how many years since Jesus died till now and add that time. to that.
Since our current time is kept as AD meaning After Death (of Jesus) and it is 2022, then we add 2022 to the total above, adding 33 year for the time Jesus lived until the age of death to get an approximation for how old creation is upon earth.
2055 + 15,224 = 17,246
By these estimates, Creation is 17,000 years old give or take and man has been upon the earth for 12,000 of those years give or take, if you minus the 5 days for creation preceding mans arrival, which according to the timeline of God each day is 1000 years.
So, for God, Creation is only a little over 16 or 17 days old at the time we are now alive, if one day to God is as a 1000 years.
In human terms....mankind isn't even considered an adult yet if we account 1000 years being one day for God.
The important aspect to remember is what constitutes a generation both now as apposed to the times prior to Noah's death.
How Long is a Generation? In high level terms, a generation is defined as a body of individuals who are born and living in about the same time in society. The accepted amount of time varies depending on the source and can range from 20 to 35 years or thereabouts. [
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Because Noah and most of those who lived prior to the flood had and average age of about 800 years, then a generation spanned a much greater length of time then, than is true for human kind today.
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