---If they lived close enough for a family visit, Shem could have chatted with Isaac (and any of the generations in-between still alive, including the patriarchs Salah, Eber, and Abraham) and have told
For example, he might have shared how much more common dinosaurs were in the days prior to the Deluge, and that there weren’t any really high mountains to speak of.
---In such a meeting, Shem would be able to reveal his age to Isaac, and explain that people before the Flood lived much longer.
---In such a meeting, Shem would be able to reveal his age to Isaac, and explain that people before the Flood lived much longer.
According to Scripture, Isaac’s son Jacob, at the age of 130, told Pharaoh that he was still quite young compared to many of his ancestors, but had aged more quickly (And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning. Genesis 47:9).
---Shem would also be able to testify that he personally knew his great-grandfather Methuselah, who was born while Adam was still alive.
In fact, Methusaleh might have known Adam, who had lived for a time in the once-perfect creation, in a place called Eden."
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