About God's timing and ours...?

Question

The bible says the Earth was created in 6 days, is that God's days or ours. Where then do the dinosaurs fit in?

Answer 1

I believe that God created upon this earth PRIOR TO Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-3.

I believe God destroyed all prior creation (Gen.1:2) to bring forth man created in God's likeness (Gen.1:26), with an UNBROKEN lineage beginning with Adam.



Pat (ndbpsa ©)

Answer 2

The creation story in Genesis is a parable meant to explain that God is powerful, he created the world, and that we are made special in his image. The Israelites, however, had no idea exactly how the world came into being, so they told this story. It's probably based on their own mythology and that of their neighbors. Nonetheless, Genesis is divinely inspired, meaning that God used it to tell people some important truths about himself. I think it's true that God's time is not our time, but even allowing for that, you can't make Genesis literally true. God made day and night, for instance, before he made the sun and stars. How does that work? And you're right; the dinosaurs don't really fit in too well. Also, if Adam and Eve were the first people, by whom God populated the Earth, how did Cain go off and find a wife from another land? There are logical inconsistancies that don't fit with a literal interpretation but that pose no problem if you choose to interpret it as a parable. Science doesn't have to be at odds with God or religion, but should rather be seen as a means to understanding them more fully.

Answer 3

Dinosaurs was during those 6 "days" a day in God's time really could have been millions and trillions of years, I mean think of evolution, it took time for those things to involve into people, that was what was considered a "day" in the bible but we know that that was longer than 24 hours. 24 hours did not come to be until much much later, and has absolutely nothing to do with God's time.

Answer 4

God's days anf his time.
Gen,1,2: All existed when earth became the focua, evident all was billions in time.
Job.38:4-7; angels saw the foundation og the earth laid. Luke 20:34-36l Angels do not die.
John 17:3,5,24; Jesus was with God before the world was.
Satan has 6,130 years from Eden and all Lost until Jesus reign Rev.20:1-6; in 1000 years = 7,130 after Eden, he makes all back like it was before Eden, ending 49, 000 years since angels say earth become the focus.

When God created flesh from the water and the fowls of the sky is the time for such hugh animals to give fuel into the earth.

Answer 5

5th day
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so...



Remember one day in Jesus Christ is either 1000 or 2000 years or more.

..All of the basic “kinds” of living creatures were brought into existence in the same initial creation week. Moses wrote: “. . . in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is . . .” (Ex. 20:11). This would include the dinosaurs (“terrible lizards”), and man as well.

Jesus affirmed that mankind has existed “from the beginning of the creation” (Mk. 10:6); this certainly excludes the notion that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man appeared upon the planet.

Humanity was given dominion over all the lower creatures of the earth (Gen. 1:26). There is no reason to exclude dinosaurs from the scope of this passage.

Answer 6

God's time, it says in the bible that the one day to God is a thousand years to us, so the earth was created in about 6,000 years, and the dinosaurs died before humans were created, their purpose was to provide manure and oil for the ground and cut down on the vegetation (so it wouldn't be too wild for humans) that's logic.

Answer 7

God doesnt have days. He created days when he created humans. Thats when the concept of time was first started.

Everything was created then. Dinosaurs didnt fit on the boat, nor could they have survived if they did, the environment changed, as did the atmosphere, as it is now our world cannot support living beings of that mass. The pressure on their structures, the stress on their muscles and hearts would be too great.

Answer 8

the days that the earth was created in were not 24 hour days, there is even evidence of this in the bible. God created through evolution.
www.godandscience.org

Answer 9

Genesis explains clearly what is meant by one day: "There was evening, and there was morning ..." - if a day represented - oh, say about 10,000 years, then it would be light continuosly for 5,000 followed by darkness for another 5,000.

I don't see anything happening under those conditions. A period of light, an evening, a period of dark, and a morning - voila ONE DAY.

Dinosaurs still exist today - they just don't live long enough to get that big. I'm talking about certain animals that never stop growing bigger as they grow older, such as turtles, alligators, lizards, certain fish, etc.

Answer 10

Don't worry your pretty little head about it. The earth evovled around 4.4 billion years ago, the dinasaurs, millions of years later. Man, millions of years later still. The Bible, very recently. It has no relevence to anyone but the most insecure and gullible,