Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 5:21

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 5:21 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 5:21. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, who is believed to have written Genesis, Enoch became a dad when he was 65 years old, and he named his son Methuselah. Christians often see this as part of God's plan and a way to show how families were formed in the Bible.

Genesis 5:21: And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: [Methuselah: Gr. Mathusala]

Contradiction with Genesis 6:3

This verse indicates a limit on human lifespan to 120 years, which contrasts with the longevity portrayed in Genesis 5:21 where Enoch lives 365 years.

Genesis 6:3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Contradiction with Hebrews 9:27

This verse states that it is appointed for men to die once, contradicting the idea that Enoch did not experience death as described in adjacent verses like Genesis 5:24.

Hebrews 9:27: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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