They were created with the animals!
2006-06-20 13:54:08
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answer #1
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answered by Paul McDonald 6
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Genesis Chapter 1 covers the first seven days.
Chapter 2 is basically a re-hash of Chapter 1.
Just after that, the next moment in time mentioned is when the serpent deceived Eve. Assuming that God made Adam in His image, and part of that image is timeless and eternal, then Adam, when created, was created to be eternal. Therefore, the time period between the first 7 days and the serpents deception could have been millions of years.
It would explain the need to create a garden to begin with, otherwise, what was He keeping out?
It also explains where Cain got a wife.
2006-06-20 13:55:20
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answer #2
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answered by arewethereyet 7
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When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?
The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim'] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29 . Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.
While the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.
Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.
When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.
When Did They Live?
Dinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.
In this regard the book Palaeontology, by James Scott, states: “Even the earliest species of Homo sapiens (man) lived long after the disappearance of the dinosaurs . . . After tilting (through earth movement) has been allowed for, rocks containing fossil men consistently occur above those preserving the bones of the great dinosaur reptiles and it follows that the latter belong to an earlier age than the human remains.”
2006-06-20 15:01:06
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answer #3
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answered by BJ 7
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God created them the same time as other animals, the 5th day. Read Genesis 1:20-23. If you read the bible there are countless references to dragons, What do you think they are referring to. The bible did not mention mosquitos, however they do exist.
Ask yourself this, if there is not God, why are we here? What is our purpose? Why try to live a good life? Without God, why not live a riotous life and do whatever comes to mind and pleases you? Why not live like animals, they kill each other what is the purpose of being different than animals if there is no God?
2006-06-20 13:57:36
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answer #4
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answered by JESUS IS LOVE 5
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The dinosaurs came on day 6 minus 365 times 210 million, more or less.
2006-06-20 13:53:24
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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On the fifth and the sixth days. The biblical text does not specify a day for the creation of dinosaurs, specifically. Genesis Chapter 1 - "every creature that moveth, of the water and the fowl of the air. Every living creature......that creepeth'
2006-06-20 13:58:53
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answer #6
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answered by sherryjsj 2
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Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. Search the internet for Creationism and Dr. Kent Hovind.
My mind was blown away.
2006-06-20 13:57:09
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answer #7
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answered by Samuel J 3
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The term "Dinosaurs" was invented in the 1800's. So you won't find that word in the bible. But as others said there is evidence for them.
2006-06-20 15:45:22
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answer #8
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answered by SEOplanNOW.com 7
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so class if you pull out your Bible Cliff Notes, you will see in Genesis...
day one: created day and night (2 dimension)
day two: seperated heavens from waters and called it Heaven, ie sky from land-horizon (3rd dimension)
day three: created land and seas and grasses and seeds, in some classes of cultures they call that Arkansas (man I hate arkansas) (descoration for 3rd dimension)
day four: created sun and moon and stars and put them in place and then gave them domination over their respected applications (reference for 3rd dimension)
day five: description skipped or rewritten in various versions of Bibles, either day 5 skipped and merged with day 6 or day 6 skipped (nothing denoting evening nor morning as other days before and after)
day six: (either in day 5 and merged with day 6, or day 6 might have been skipped) creation of animals in air, sea and land...including humans-Adam and Eve (contested as this mention of creating woman was in there twice, once in genesis 1 as female, and once in genesis:2 as woman) (humans in 3rd dimension)
day seven: rested, cause that was a lot of work
now clearly, we can see that day 5 or day 6 (either as the seperation was not listed) was the day God created beasts on the planet, once the planet was made. Now let's move on...
"Genesis 6:4 (American Standard Version)
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4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. "
The nephilim, what were they, who were they? Are these Angels? Are they angel's children with humans? Where they giant beasts of the land, like dinosaurs or scary monsters like "Beowulf" 's Grendel?
moving on...
Isaiah 27:1 (American Standard Version)
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Isaiah 27
1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
Psalm 104 (American Standard Version)
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Psalm 104
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.
27 These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them their food in due season.
Now ask what is the Leviathan? a giant serpent beast able to destroy ships, or just a crocodile or snake in the waters? or was this another dinosaur?
Have fun, mythology class dismissed.
2006-06-20 14:28:15
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Wednesday
2006-06-20 13:50:46
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answer #10
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answered by Ghost of War 1
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Silly person, Christians don't believe in Dinosaurs.
2006-06-20 13:55:49
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answer #11
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answered by Kenny ♣ 5
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