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From:	Christopher Paulin (70.166.150.15)
Subject:	Re: What the Bible says about the Age of the Earth
Date:	June 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: What the Bible says about the Age of the Earth posted by K.D. on June 28, 2012 at 4:20 am:

Those are good points. There are many unknowns, such when they started to invent tools and fire. It will always be a mystery because we don't have a time machine. Genesis 9:1-3 shows that they were vegetarian until after the flood.
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Why did people live longer
BEFORE the Flood?

http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/why-did-man-live-longer-before-flood-of-noah-than-after-it.html

I skimmed this. I hope that we can reverse this longevity trend with our 80/10/10rv diet and lifestyle.
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http://www.bible.com/bibleanswers_result.php?id=167

The Bible says that in the earliest days of creation, all of God's creation (even animals) were vegetarian. When God blessed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, He said to them: "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be food for you. And to the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food. And it was so" (Genesis 1:29-30).

It appears that all creation was vegetarian until after the waters of the Great Flood receded and Noah and his family were left to replenish the earth.

Genesis 9:1-3 says: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all of the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, now I give you everything."
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http://bible.cc/genesis/3-19.htm

Genesis 3:19 (bread = food)

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return."

The point here was that they needed to work hard to make food.
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http://bible.cc/genesis/4-2.htm

Genesis 4:2

"And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground."

The two primitive employments of men were the agricultural and the pastoral. Here is the second allusion to some use which was made of animals soon after the fall. Coats of skin were provided for the first pair; and now we have Habel keeping sheep. In the garden of Eden, where the tree of life was accessible, an exclusively vegetable diet was designed for man. Whether this continued after the fall, we are not informed. It is certain that man had dominion over the whole animal kingdom. It can scarcely be doubted that the outer coverings of animals were used for clothing. Animals are presently to be employed for sacrifice. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that animal food may have been used before the flood, as a partial compensation for the desire of the tree of life, which may have been suited to supply all the defects of vegetable and even animal fare in sustaining the human frame in its primeval vigor.
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