Is there an age limit to how long we can live?
GotQuestions Bible questions answered https://www.gotquestions.org/ All rights reserved-Published with permission Many people understand Genesis 6:3 to be a 120-year age limit on humanity, “Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.’” However, Genesis chapter 11 records several people living past the age of 120. As a result, some interpret Genesis 6:3 to mean that, as a general rule, people will no longer live past 120 years of age. After the flood, the life spans began to shrink dramatically (compare Genesis 5 with Genesis 11 ) and eventually shrank so that very few people lived to be 120 years old. By the time of the Exodus, almost no one survived to that age. Moses and Aaron lived that long ( Numbers 33:39 ; Deuteronomy 34:7 ), and Jehoiada the priest lived to 130 ( 2 Chronicles 24:15 ). So, 120 years was not a “hard” boundary; rather, it was near the age that an especially healthy and fo