{"id":206,"date":"2010-10-11T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:17:33","slug":"methuselah-and-the-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/methuselah-and-the-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Methuselah and the flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always thought about the flood and the generations of Adam that lived before it happened (due to the great age some of them lived to be). The analysis below is as a result of a conversation with a senior colleague (O. Adewumi) some time ago when he mentioned the possibility of doing something similar. I have been putting it off for a while, but it came again to my mind just as I was about to fall asleep yesterday (scratch that, about 2am this morning).<br \/>\nSo I copied out the relevant Bible verses and created the table below. The only thing that jumps out (at me) is in relation to Methuselah\u00a0&#8211; draw your conclusions please (I may be off by a year or so of course)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_207\" style=\"width: 751px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/methu_flood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207\" title=\"methu_flood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/methu_flood.jpg\" alt=\"Methuselah and the Flood\" width=\"741\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/methu_flood.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/methu_flood-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Methuselah and the Flood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always thought about the flood and the generations of Adam that lived before it happened (due to the great age some of them lived to be). The analysis below is as a result of a conversation with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/methuselah-and-the-flood\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}