Celebrating the gift of life with 103-year-old

ACCORDING to Judaism, Christianity and Islamic mythology, a man called Methuselah once walked the earth and lived for 969 years.

However, so goes the tale the Christian Old Testament Bible, God decided to revise the maximum number of years a man could walk the earth to 120 years.

In Genesis 6:3, it is written: “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.”

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