Genesis 5: Old as the Hills

Summary: Genealogy set forth.

Personal Reflection: It seems quite fantastic to me that people lived as long as this chapter indicates, but why not? Other very old creation- or religion-type records also record kings that live (or reign) for hundreds of years (notably the Sumerian King List). I take this as evidence of the fact that Adam did in fact exist, and that the truth mutated as it traveled further and further from its source.

Also interesting is that Methusaleh (according to those willing to do the math) died the same year as the great flood. Some have suggested he died before the flood, and others, that he died in the flood. I like to think that the longest-lived man in the world was a good man.

Note: Not much to say about this chapter. Tomorrow there should be some good stuff again.