I believe you must question your beliefs to grow stronger in them, so with that said. We know how the Bible starts in Genesis and how God created Earth and Adam and Eve. If we take the dinosaur and caveman eras and overlap them with the bible, they are missing. Genesis is the beginning of everything (Earth, animals, and man) but no caveman!? No dinosaur!? Confused?
2006-06-19 04:20:29 · 12 answers · asked by David J 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not sure where they are living but I saw two on a TV commercial the other day.
You said there is not mention of dinosaurs...well it says animals and I believe a dinosaur is an animal. Also, there were no houses when God created man. A cave would have been the logical place for man to get out of the elements.... thus the name 'caveman'.
2006-06-19 04:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible! It's just that we didn't call them "dinosaurs" back then, we called them "dragons" (and not just in the Bible, too).
Leviathan and Behemoth are specific creatures mentioned that I believe were dragons or dinosaurs.
Cavemen? The "Caveman era" in my belief did not happen, but that's more of an evolution vs. creation question. There's a lot of findings that support that point too. That's gonna hit some people pretty hard, but again that's another question.
There's no problem with questioning your beliefs.
2006-06-19 04:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Paul McDonald 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's because the people who wrote the Bible did not know about Neanderthals, dinosaurs, mastodons, and other prehistoric creatures, so they did not write about them. Genesis was written by people who were ignorant about how the world worked, had no concept of the earth being billions of years old, understood nothing of evolution. They believed that the sky was a big dome overhead, with the sun, moon, stars, etc. embedded in it like beads in a cloth. They thought that rain came from a big reservoir above the sky, and so you read about God opening "the floodgates of heaven" to let all the water out.
If there were an all-powerful god, it would have told them the truth of these things and not let them live in ignorance. The fact that people believed these things for thousands of years disproves the existence of a god, especially one who loves truth and wisdom, as the Christians claim it does. It absolutely disproves that any such deity had anything to do with the Bible, which is chock-full of fables, folklore, and exagerrated hero stories straight from the imagination of humans, with no indication of God correcting their misconceptions. The Bible cannot be relied upon for any kind of wisdom.
Oh, and Cesar...Zecharia Sitchin is not exactly a fountain of wisdom, either. His myths are, if anything, even more far-fetched than the Bible's.
2006-06-19 04:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs existed mostly BEFORE Adam came along.
During the time they co-existed, Adam was in Eden, dinosaurs on the outside.
Genesis 1:21 refers to "great sea monsters". That's as close as the bible gets to dinosaurs.
Don't be fooled, dinosaurs needed the sea.
Cavemen are not mentionned only because man's time spent in caves was relatively short.
He discovered soon that animal skins make good teepee.
The Bible doesn't mention absolutely everything.
It has a theme and sticks to it.
2006-06-19 04:29:32 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "cave men' other than the Nephelim lived in the first creation. They were not "men" per se. They were ape like creature who walked upright. After the rebellion of the angels they were killed off. What you see in Genesis chapter 1 starting in verse 2 is the re-creation of the planet. Adam and Eve were told to re-plenish the earth. It had been plenished before.
God renewed the face of the earth (Psalms 104:30).
2006-06-19 04:30:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never intended the Bible to be a technical manual. The story in Genesis is only a brief outline...and if you follow the sequence in Gen 1 closely, you might almost begin to think that maybe God did use evolution (or something alot like it) in His creation.
There is really no conflict between God and science. After all, God invented science. The conflict is really between arrogant theologians who think they have all the answers, and big-headed scientists who are sure they do.
2006-06-19 04:29:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing with beliefs are, you just believe them. Challenging your beliefs only bring doubt and then you are in trouble. It seems as though whoever wrote Genesis left something out. Besides, we never learned of caveman through the bible, that was through scientific discovery, and religion and science don't get along very well.
2006-06-19 04:25:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are confused because you can not understand something.
We were not created for any God, the Ananakis came to the planet and alter our genetic composition around 200,000 years ago.
Before that the planet has hominids after that the planet has humans.
The Bible is a booklet written many years later to keep the dominance of a social class.
In which lab the Zea Mai's, the ancestor of our corn was altered to make possible for us to digest it? Tell me which part of genesis talks about that.
2006-06-19 04:27:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people who wrote Genesis didn't know about dinosaurs and "cave men". Sorry.
2006-06-19 04:27:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How long is God's day? The bible says that on the fifth day that he created life in the Oceans and on land. Maybe God's day is 65 million years long, then on the sixth day he created man.
2006-06-19 04:25:01 · answer #10 · answered by Jason W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋