Quote Originally Posted by AllyManderson View Post
Now that there has been ample time for people to become familiar with the text.

My questions are thus

How might someone use this chapter: (As in, Have you ever heard it used...)
i) Justify Alcohol Consumption
ii) Justify Slavery

Furthermore

iii) Can these periods of time (Life of Noah) be explained outside of scripture?

Awaiting reply.
Asdf is correct.
The text is simply telling us what happened, and is not telling us what should happen.

as for the ages of dates and how clearly unbelievable the ages of some many people are said to have reached?...i dont believe the numbers for a second.

I once read a work by a Bible teacher that held to the idea that the crazy numbers are simply the result of using two or more different ways to count..as if you were saying the temperature outside was Zero degrees Centigrade and 32 degrees Fahrenheit....then adding the Zero to the 32 and getting 320 degrees.