Genesis 5:25-27

Let me quote from the New American Bible: "When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he became the father of Lamech. Methuselah lived seven-hundred and eighty-two years after the birth of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died." My response: If Yahweh or his angels--Or were they actually immortal or very long-lived aliens assisting humans to get a civilization going here on earth?--gave perfect health diet to early humans or shared their superhuman or demi-god genes added to the human genome, this might explain why these early humans were so very long-lived. One wonders if Tolkien's Numenoreans were based on these early descendants of Adam and Eve, as lesser men lived shorter lives, the more distant they were from God or the Eldars. Could it be that, as we develop a high civilization, a constitutional republic of anarchist supercitizens, steeped in the ways of Mavellonialism, that long life again will become the norm for humans? Could our bringing the kingdom of God to earth when the majority of citizens anywhere are living angels, might not the Divine Couple and their followers, or watching aliens come back to visit us as our reward to doing well and living well? It is possible. I do not envision that the Divine Couple will bestow upon us the gift of immorality because dying is what makes living so special. Death is the gift that gives life real meaning. Unending life or unending death seem like static, states of existence to me--there likely are exceptions. Still, a life 400 years long would allow one to accomplish so much as an individuator. Let me now quote these same passages from the Holy Bible (KJV): "And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died."