Reply To: Covenants Group Discussion 1

[Paulpraze]

MY REPLY TO BEN
My first observation concerns your interpretation or understanding of GENESIS 6:3.
I disagree with the idea that God, in this text, was fixing the minimum age for which man ought to live. I do not believe that this text has anything at all to do with man’s lifespan on the earth.
I am with the school of thought that the one hundred and twenty years mentioned in this text is a reference to the amount of time that man had before God’s flood judgment would coke upon the earth. God striving with man would be not wanting to put up with his wickedness, and yet giving him the chance and opportunity to find salvation in Noah’s Ark. It was God being patient and kind, or longsuffering as the Apostle Peter described it on 1 PETER 3:20.
However, I agree with you, that the believer ought to live a long and satisfying life, for Scriptures are replete with such promises from God to His people.
The believer should not be bothered or concerned with any ideas or beliefs that contradict what God has clearly revealed in His word about his or her length of days on the earth.
A long and satisfying life is God’s promise, and therefore the portion of the believer who chooses to believe, hold on to and insist on God’s word.