Mind, as defined in Strong’s Concordance, and as used in the Bible, is from the word יצר which means imagination or the form of a concept. We are made up of matter; the same material that the ground is made from. The word adam (man) has the word blood (dam) inside, which is where the life is, according to the Bible. Adam was made from the adama (ground): therefore the ground makes the body, but the blood (and the breath) makes the man. Without the blood, and without the breath: you have basic earth material. If God has the power to resurrect, surely the power to repair a body is possible. When Jesus and his disciples went to visit Lazarus, who had been dead for 4 days (would start decomposing): A) the disciples didn’t understand Jesus when he said Lazarus was sleeping. He had to explain that to their worldly understanding Lazarus is dead; but to Jesus he is sleeping, or ceasing to be until resurrection. Jesus walked in and resurrected Lazarus and no signs of his decomposition were present. That is how it will be for everyone. Noah had 3 sons; Ham, Shem, and Japheth. Ham means burnt, and black. Ham is the father of Canaan, Egypt, Cush, and eventually Africa. He is the bad son in the Bible. Shem is the good son, who’s bloodline continued to walk in God’s laws and righteousness. Japheth had to decide whether to follow Ham in darkness, or Shem in righteousness. He chose Shem and was allowed to dwell in his tents (protection by righteousness). Now Japheth had a son, Gomer, who had a son Ashkenaz. I’m sure in don’t need to tell you what happened with the descendants of Ashkenaz, and if they walk in darkness or righteousness; but they still try to use Shem’s tents today. The words Semite and Semitic mean descendants of Shem. Ashkenaz is not a descendant of Shem, but of his brother Japheth. I don’t recall seeing an age of consent in the Bible, but God is clear that man is to take one wife and that’s it. Sex is for procreation, and to give your body for your wife’s (healthy) desires and vice versa. To even lust after another woman is to commit adultery in your heart. About Sarah: God designed Adam to live forever. Eve listened to the serpent, Adam listened to Eve, and death was introduced as the wages of sin. Adam lived to be 930 years old. Cain, who chose darkness, took a wife and had children, who eventually took husbands of Seth ( Adams 3rd son) as it is written the the sons of God knew the daughters of men. This corruption shortens lives, so each generation of mixing continued to reduce the lifespan. Lamech fathered Noah at the age of 182 for example. Now after the flood, where Noah, his sons (detailed above) and their wives survived: God shortened the average lifespan to 120 years, because men had all proven to be corruptible, given enough years on earth. God promised Abraham and Sarah a seedline that would number the stars in Heaven, and that the messiah would come from his loins. Sarah was baren, and they eventually doubted the promise given by God. Sarah told Abraham to sleep with her maid, Hagar, reasoning maybe that’s the only way to have his seedline. He did (sinfully) and had a son, Ishmael, who fathered the Arab nations. Sarah herself laughed when she was told she’d have a son, as she was baren, and way too old anyways. This was a miracle from God, who kept his promise. Had they remained faithful, it probably would have happened sooner, and without Arab nations to this day. Abraham had faith in God, but doubt crept in from time to time. God made a promise to Abraham that he would receive a land forever, and all his generations would inhabit the land. This was an unconditional promise; but Abraham began to doubt again, and went back to God asking for some kind of seal or guarantee. God then made the circumcision (likely a reminder to be faithful and not wander after the daughters of men etc) as the seal. As for Sarah’s beauty at an old age: it’s not specifically written why she was beautiful, but it’s a thread throughout Abraham’s sons’ wives as well. They’re stunningly beautiful, but baren, yet God gives them children. It eludes to a parallel that the women represent the “church” (those that keep the Commandments of God), and Egypt, or whichever evil power, lusts after them (wants to corrupt righteousness with the darkness they walk in). God leaves them baren (protection from corruption) until an appointed time, as long as they keep their faith in his promises.