I've the Bible as a youth and believed everything in it. But I was a vulernable kid who never questioned anything. But I older and wiser and I'm curious why the Bibles doesn't mention key elements in Earth's timeline like Neanderthal Man who was a species that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia. Also dinosaurs aren't mentioned and I don't that fake one in the book of Job. What about Native Americans who lived in the Americas 15,000 years ago? Why did the Bible not include these elements?
2006-09-05 21:26:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The book of Genesis, which means the birth, creation, tells the start of planet earth and those elements are left out. Did God not want to tell these stories? He never mentioned His other creations like the Natives living in America.
2006-09-05 21:38:32 · update #1
So did dragons really exist or are they creations from our imagination like unicorns? God refers to himself as the creator. It would be fair as to how he created everything. The Bible's timeline is unclear.
2006-09-05 22:12:56 · update #2
They aren't mentioned because either the book was written by a series of contributors who didn't know about The First Nations, Neanderthals or dinosaurs. Hell, who didn't know about Continental drift,germ theory or the solar system among a wide range of other facts. Or you got a god that didn't know about these things or did and thought it would be fun to watch people die until the people discovered them. The bible is poor law, history, geography, and a real muddle when it comes to theology. The old testament anyway It is a great real estate record. Read the begats, The Jews were sure that they were going home and they made sure that who owned what and left it to who was well recorded. It is internally contradictory and overly simple. Don't look to it for truth. It may be a good picture of the world of a group of nomads living in tents and their struggle to civilization. It is not a good guide for the creation of tomorrow.
2006-09-05 21:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well you say you don't want to hear about the book of Job. Why? You are looking to the Bible for answers and then wanting to exclude it? That makes no sense to me. Leviathan, Beheemoth, and dragons are all mentioned in the Bible. The word "dinosaur" did not come about till around the 1800's. Understand that all your timeline (how long ago things lived) are all subject to MAN'S interpretation. And none of those scientists truly agree with each other. They all use different dating methods that can't come up with the same answer and base things on stuff in the past they can't prove, but present as a theory that others take as fact. They did carbon dating on a live mullusk and found it to be a million years old. You say native americans lived in America 15,000 years ago (as science also says) but there are drawings of "dinosaurs" in the areas they lived along with other indian drawings. These are dinosaurs that lived supposedly millions of years ago, and the indians had no history books then!! When you try to make the bible fit science, you make a huge mistake because man's word is fallible. Try taking a look at this site.....
http://www.answersingenesis.org/video/ondemand/answersWithKen.asp
Look at the June 13th and June 20th edition. I also have an article at the top of my page at...
http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
2006-09-06 05:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by green93lx 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not a bible expert, don't claim to be, but one solution for your Question on dinosaurs is when Noah put the animals on the ark during the flood he also put dinosaurs on the ark but after the flood the earths atmosphere changed so what dinosaurs lived evolved to adapt to the changes and the ones who didn't died. Now native Americans, the bible was written by men in the Mediterranean area and little of the surrounding world was know at the time thus they didn't know there were people living in the Americas. And i don't have a solution for the neanderthals.
2006-09-06 04:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Bible does not contain everything and never claimed to. I am not a Christian but I hate seeing people having false expectations of what should be in the Bible. The same people who tell you that the Bible contains everything you need to know have no problem with using modern accounting, indoor plumbing, steel or a whole host of other things that are not mentioned in the Bible. I know they were invented after the Bible was written but God stands outside time and could have inspired just one of his authors to mention some of these.
2006-09-06 04:34:54 · answer #4 · answered by Kuji 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all,I think you don't know the purpose of the Bible;The Bible is the Holly word of God,it is not the intention of God to explain every thing He created (other wise next time you'll gonna ask where the Bible talk about other planets,galaxies,solar systems,etc).The Bible's purpose is to let you know about God's word (His existence,His will,your condition as a sinner,but as well as the way you can obtain an ever lasting live go in to heaven insted to hell.The Bible is to teach you how to fix your life,not to prove how many things God created or to explain every thing around you)So if you don't find some thing in the Bible it do not means God don't exist or do not created that.
So next time think seriously about your question before you ask some thing. God bless you.
2006-09-06 05:00:19 · answer #5 · answered by TIGER 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, there are so many 100% reliable proofs of the existence of dinosaurs...
I am not talking about evolutionism-scenario but about 100% reliable fossils of dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs really were the "masters" of Earth for hundreds of millions of years. It is fully pragmatically prooved.
So indeed, I feel a bit surprised that none of them are mentioned in "holy scriptures"...
But beware: lots of cults and "new" religions mention dinosaurs' existence into their "holy scriptures".
You understand then why I definitely don't/won't trust any kind of religious & spiritual beliefs...
2006-09-06 04:53:19 · answer #6 · answered by Axel ∇ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible is a story, plain and simple.
If you want to actually find out about the earth's history and so on, you would do better looking in the science section of the library, not the religion section.
2006-09-06 04:29:39 · answer #7 · answered by HP 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because the people who wrote the bible did not know of these things, and since the bible was written by people who pretended to have god on speed dial even though they just either were delusional, epileptic, or just made a bunch of crap up. Anything written from "God's" perspective that has limited knowledge of the world is clearly BS.
2006-09-06 04:33:21 · answer #8 · answered by ethical_atheist 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
If you really think about it, the Bible is written by men that God has spoken to. It is their account of what transpired.
Do you think that Neanderthals, dinosaurs and 'Native Americans' (who immigrated here when the world was one big continent) had the where-with-all to write chapters in this great book of history?
Another point; most of the people who contributed to the Bible were Middle Eastern (Jesus was too...THINK), so "Native Americans" wouldn't have much take on that, now would they?
2006-09-06 04:34:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because, as we one day will find out, these are very touchy topics in the past of the god who is mentionned in the Bible as being the 'one god'
2006-09-06 04:36:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋