why dont some christians believe in dinasours?

Answer 1

The Bible does have a few offhand references to "leviathans" and the occassional verse(s) describing large undisclosed animals, but doesn't directly launch into details on dinosaurs and how they would have fit into the creation story(s).

If you're a fundamentalist who takes the stories literally and exclusively (i.e., the Bible's silence on something means that it never happened, rather than just wasn't mentioned due to being "out of scope"), then dinosaurs do not make sense and have no place in the narrative. Therefore they did not really exist. Usually some sort of elaborate scheme has to be developed (to whit: "they were planted by Satan and his angels, to trick us into believing evolution") in order to explain them away.

Obviously we have skeletons that show that dinosaurs did exist, though, and the most likely explanation is the simplest: They existed, died, and were fossilized. We just don't know how they fit in, nor were any of us there to watch and witness what happened.

If you've got more "flex" in how you take the creation narratives (as true but not literal), of course, you can make an allowance for dinosaurs. Obviously they fit in somewhere, but it's not really a big deal.

Answer 2

Because they do not see how, based on a young Earth, there would have been the possibility of animals of that size and prowess. I think it is very easily possible. If Adam and the other early Bible characters lived as long as they did, y couldn't the animals? Lizards never stop growing. If they lives for 500 years then they would get pretty darn big. It makes sense to me, but there are some out there that do not understand the concept at all and thus just say that those "dinosaurs" that we found were just flukes. They were just us humans taking other bones from other animals and making these massive creatures.

Answer 3

I dont know? The bible talks about their being cities and civilizations before satan was expelled from heaven. Doesnt say they were HUMAN, or angelic. That was long because the earth was formed. "the earth was without form" like it had been obliterabed or something. I think thats why there are fossils.

Personally i believe there are some sort of prehistoric creatures in the oceans, the bible talks about them. If not, they were around at some point, and arent anymore. I guess only God knows why.

Answer 4

They should though. they are not as old as scientist say they are though. GOD talks about behometh in Job chapter 40 verses15-24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him." In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.

Answer 5

It varies with the Christian. some are biologists. They settle for the Bible as allegory, and those 7 "days" it took the Lord to create Earth as longer than at present's days. some are fundamentalists. they imagine dinosaurs are a hoax, or God created the fossils to attempt our faith, or dinosaurs lived 3,000 years in the past. 80 5% of fundamentalist Christians settle for the perception of planetary action, besides the indisputable fact that, and that purely took 400 years. the different 15% nevertheless imagine the solar strikes around the earth. through the three hundred and sixty 5 days 2250 or so, we can wish 80 5% of the fundamentalists will settle for the perception of evolution. people replace slowly. provide them time.

Answer 6

Because there is actual physical proof that dinosaurs roamed the earth through fossil evidence, however you only have faith and a belief that God exists. Also Christians only believe what is written in the Bible as though it was written by the hand of God himself. They live by it, and if there is nothing in the Bible that says dinosaurs roamed the earth they don't believe it.

Answer 7

Because it conflicts with the bible. To Christians, the earth is only around 6000 years old. Contrary to their belief, science has dated the Earth to be at least 4 billion years old. Dinosaurs would have come waaaaaaaaaay before the Earth began (in biblical numbers) for the bible and science to combine and make sense. Therefore, they simply refuse to believe.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs did exist, the Bible actually talks about them in the book of Leviticus and there is evidence being uncovered every day. I live in Montana and they've already found a few Tyranisaur skeletons on digs in our area. The thing we don't agree with is how long ago they existed. The Earth isn't billions of years old as we believe so I believe they actually existed not so long ago. Before Christ, before Moses, but not billions of years before. Of course that's my opinion:)

Answer 9

Because you have already believed in. You need not to worry about Christians. If whether or not we believe in dinosaur, it does not effect us neither in this world nor after death.
I hope you make you brain to function well, for some thing that is necessary for us, not for the questions that are nonsense.

Answer 10

I don't know about other sects, but I know Mormons believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Therefore, they postulate that dinosaurs couldn't have existed and that natural history museums are running the biggest scams in the history of man.