and why no mention of the dinosours?
2006-11-04 12:01:26 · 26 answers · asked by izzydeniro 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Didn't they explain this on the X-Files?
2006-11-04 12:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by John S 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
As someone pointed out, the Holy Roman Catholic Church Removed all of the good bits in a fit of editors pen and then "done to death" everyone who didn't agree with their version. Much in the same way that the Soviets did to the Church in the USSR and Hitler tried in more recent Europe. Just like the politically correctives would like to do today. Remove free thought to defeat your critics. It was thought that the only way for Jesus to be "all powerful", was to remove reference to his humanity and increase his divinity level. Man has moulded and re-moulded the truth for his own power and gain over the last 2000+ years. What a shame that men of God (Which ever one) only seek to gain power over other men and not worry about truth along the way.
Evil walks invisibly amongst us all. You cannot see it, but your individual faith will protect like an ever present shield. Don't diverge from the path well trodden, but help all others you find by the wayside. Above all cause no others pain or grief for this is the way to righteousness and true enlightenment.
2006-11-05 01:24:49 · answer #2 · answered by WavyD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean the time between Jesus's birth and his ministry? It's because church leaders were getting together at the Council of Carthage and deciding what canons were acceptable and what was not, they voted against using the Gnostic Gospels with stories written about Jesus's childhood.
There are no dinosaurs in the bible because dinosaurs were not even a concept at the time. Don't let Ken Hovind tell you Dinotopia was real. People would find some prehistoric bones and invent mythical beasts around them. For instance, Comanches attributed mammoth bones to a bogeyman called Cannibal Owl.
2006-11-04 13:00:52 · answer #3 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because the Bible is not a book of science and should not be taken literally. It was written by ignorant, superstitious men who had no idea of how to determine truth. They did the best they knew how but everything they did has been done better in history, literature, poetry, drama, psychology, medicine, science, government, and, yes, even in religion since then.
Those who think the Bible is the only book worth reading are not exactly well read or perhaps even literate people.
The Bible at best was only a start at trying to understand the universe we live in. Certainly not the final word on anything.
2006-11-04 12:08:13 · answer #4 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
There are numerous gaps in the bible. People assume all the stories fit together, but actually it's all sorts of stories and texts put together, most of them centuries apart. The oldest of them is said to be the book of Job, it's an interesting tale, although a bit tedious.
I've never really discovered the plot in the bible.
2006-11-04 12:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by Jaco K 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not sure where the gap is you're referring to but the Bible was written by several different people. It's compiled of all the different stories, as logically and chronologically as possible. So, not all stories will link together where one left off, but it's pretty much the principles in the Bible that are important.
And dinosaurs were before the Bible was written.
2006-11-04 12:04:52 · answer #6 · answered by huffmak2 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the bible was made up by people that didn't know that Dinosaurs ever existed.
We've only known about Dinosaurs for the last 100 years or so.
2006-11-04 12:40:38 · answer #7 · answered by mainwoolly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The large gap .... like between the Old Testament and the New Testament? The gap from the end of the Age of the Prophets until the fulfillment of the greatest prophecies, the coming of Messiah, His death and Resurrection.
Why no mention of dinosaurs?
The word "dinosaur" was invented in AD 1841 ... so how would you expect them to be named way back in the OT (or NT)/
They used different names for them: tanniyn, behemoth, and Leviathan.
[Of course some claim that the behemoth is another name for an elephant -- but notice that his tail is like a cedar tree. Not many elephants have a tail like that!!!
But they at least were around by the time of Job, and the people of Job's time knew about dinosaurs since dinosaurs are described in detail in Job 40:15 to 41:34.
2006-11-04 12:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
There was a large gap in the brains of those who wrote the bible.
2006-11-04 22:56:16 · answer #9 · answered by Musicol 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because there is usually a large gap between the truth and a lie
2006-11-04 12:03:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
what do you mean by there being a gap in the bible?
No mention of dinosaurs....well God didnt mention the blue whale or the sperm whale, he didnt mention giraffes or rhinoceres- and theyre pretty big too. I'd say God didnt consider it priority to mention. And being God, I'd say he knew what He was doing! The point of the bible is to give us a bit of history, prophecy and to give us an understanding of Jesus character, His love for us and how He died for us. To me, salvation is a LITTLE more important than dinosaurs.
2006-11-04 19:23:43 · answer #11 · answered by its_just_me 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋