Is this true that a man lived to 256yrs. Its a fact that Methuselah did live to be 969?

Question

Professor Li Chung Yun was considered the oldest man of our century. The London Times (May 8, 1933) reported his death at the age of 256 years. Records found in China show he was born in 1677.

Answer 1

If you read the Bible, you can see that people during those days and earlier lived more than a hundred years old. If you're about a hundred years old, you are considered a youth. Because men in those days get married at the age of 50 and above. And women get pregnant til they are about 90. I guess, it's their way of life. There's no pollution, no chemicals in their foods and their life is much simplier they do not have too much worries in life or let's just say they are not worriers before unlike these days. Worrying too much can kill, you know. It can take a lot of minutes, hours, days from your life. It's the lifestyle they have that lead them to long life span.

Answer 2

Man wrote the texts; man can say anything he wants.  Doesn't mean its fact.

Answer 3

Li Chung Yun was a fraud. Methuselah was a myth.

Answer 4

Unless his name is Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod I seriously doubt he lived that long, given the amount of conflict, disease, and poor health that existed in those times.  

Take those early hebrew people who lived exceedingly long lives, and see if you can divide them by 13, haven't done it with many, but it gives a life-span that is reachable, and would make them very old.

Most numbers in such texts are either spiritually significant, multiples of 3 or 7; or other numbers that are important for some other reason.  IE- if you believe them, I have a bridge to sell you.

Answer 5

You can't believe everything you read in ancient chinese records.  I think the human animal tops out somewhere around 120, and those codgers are usually just a drooling shell by that age.

Addition: Umm, joanne...the length of a year isn't determined by a calendar, it's determined by the earth's revolution around the sun.  Every civilized culture since about 3000 BC had the length of a year accurately determined down to +/- a day or so.  It's not rocket science, it's astronomy.

Answer 6

I don't Think so.

Records from last century even aren't very reliable, older records are even more questionable.

As for Methuselah, the text from the Bible as we know it today as undergone extensive and extremely inaccurate translations, there is a theory that sustains that the lunar cycles were mistaken for solar cycles, which would make this character about 72 years (solar 365 days years) old.

Answer 7

All heros in ancient tales lived to unbelievable ages, if they didn't die in battle.  These tales started way before the Jews came out of the desert with their goats & stopped worshiping their moon  goddess. To answer your question... NO.

Answer 8

I dont believe it.

Besides in biblical history, it was before the Gregorian calender, so years were measured differently then, thats why bible people seemed to live for so long.

Answer 9

whoa, did he eat lots of preservatives?

Answer 10

I'm not sure about Professor Li Chung Yun, but I do believe that  Methuselah's documented age was due to the difference in calculations between Lunar and Solar ages and translational errors.

If you compensate for the time between solar and lunar cycles, it gives a number difference of 12.4

If you divide 969 yrs by 12.4, you get a number age of about 78 years of age, which is a little more realistic.

Answer 11

The oldest documented modern human, was a French woman, Jeanne Calment, who lived be 122+...(Guinness Records))

Methuselah lived 969 Months, which is still old for those days...It's about 80+ years old! (Ancient Hebrews used a Lunar Calendar)