A Biblical Generation

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TheAristocat

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Genesis 15:13, 16 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. [...] In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

Is a biblical generation really 100 years? If so this sheds light on some later prophecies concerning generations.
 
crossnote

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It's hard to say since in Abraham's day many lived between 100-150 years.
Good observation.
 
TheAristocat

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It's also nice how God was patient with the Amorites. I know there are some in the secular world who say that one of the earliest times God exhibits concern for anyone other than a Jew is in Jonah with Nineveh. But I think there are hints like this one all throughout the Bible that show us God has always been concerned with all Mankind.
 
p_rehbein

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A century of thought has gone into determining what a Biblical generation is defined as..........

(see avatar for further clarity.............)
 
jonathanbchristian

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A generation is simply everyone born or generated at a time. It depends what time you pick to begin with and the life expectancy of that group.
 
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I have heard 40 , 70 , now 100, The number that has always bothered me is the Protestant bible has 66 books , just don't seem right.
 
TheAristocat

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jonathanbchristian said:
A generation is simply everyone born or generated at a time. It depends what time you pick to begin with and the life expectancy of that group.
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If what crossnote says is true, this is probably most accurate. But then if there is a prophecy about a future generation specifically, then would the "generation" be referring to the length of a generation in the day the prophecy was first made or a length of the generation in the target date of the prophecy? That's what confuses me.

Also if what crossnote says happens to be true, then the meaning of a generation is most likely a person's general lifespan. Like maybe it'd be 80-100 years for our time. So one generation in our time would be 80-100 years.
 
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