Jesus was young!

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Yeah he was getting up in years at that time considering the life expectancy wasn't as great as it is now.
 
Forlorn-Hope said:
Nowadays but back then he was probably way past middle aged :p
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I would tend to think that people lived much longer back then, that is if they weren't stricken with disease famine ect. They did not eat processed foods or food with artificial preservatives. Everything was eaten fresh. There were no fast food restaurants plus, they lived a much more active life.

In the Bible: Methuselah lived to be 969 yrs. old. Genesis 5:27
- Jared - 962 Genesis 5:20
- Noah - 950 Genesis 9:29
- Adam - 930 Genesis 5:5
- Seth - 912 Genesis 5:8
- Kenan - 910 Genesis 5:14
- Enosh - 905 Genesis 5:11
- Mahalalel - 895 Genesis 5:17
- Lamech - 777 Genesis 5:31
 
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It would depend on how wealthy you were I guess poor people would have very simple diets and be pretty malnourished and they'd have to work all there lives to survive so probably eventually work themselves to death. And I guess those people were allowed to live by the "grace" of God. Funny how you dont see that now adays. In 1000 AD life expectancy was 24 years so I dont know if things would have been worse or better a thousand years before that.
 
That may be true, but you also have to take into account the amount of very early deaths that skewed those results though. Thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of babies and children died before the age of 5. If you had one person that lived to 70 and two babies that died at the age of 1, then the average life expectancy of the three would be 24 yrs. That is a very unreliable statistic my friend.
 
Yeah but what were the chances of someone living to 70 in a time where a cut on your finger could kill you in a week.
 
Most people died back then as an infant. If you made it past the age of five life expectancy was tremendously increased. I'm not sure how many people back then died from a simple cut on their finger, but I am pretty sure that it wasn't too many lol
 
jonathanbchristian said:
Jesus lived to be like 33 years old. I think He would qualify for young adult!
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I think Jesus would have far surpassed Methuselah if he hadn't been killed. Wait, even then he far surpasses Methuselah, BECAUSE HE IS ALIVE FOREVER MORE!!
 
Right on Ramon, right on! His flesh may have only lived to the age of a young adult, but Christ is an eternal being.
 
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I would imagine it would be quite a lot back then any wound that got infected would be an almost definite death sentence :\
 
Forlorn-Hope said:
I would imagine it would be quite a lot back then any wound that got infected would be an almost definite death sentence :\
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I get infected wounds that go untreated all the time, but I have never been given a death sentence... How are the people of old so different from me?
 
See_KING_Truth said:
Right on Ramon, right on! His flesh may have only lived to the age of a young adult, but Christ is an eternal being.
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I should say his flesh only lasted...because Christ didn't live in the flesh, but the spirit.
 
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