If God created people first, where did dinosaurs come from?

Question

Since dinosaurs came before man.

backfromt... - Christianity says that

ah, $hit, I got it mixed up, I read Genesis a couple weeks ago and I just mixed it up in my mind.
I'll delete this quest later

Answer 1

Dude! Read the 1st Chapter of Genesis in the Bible! The record is man was NOT created 1st!!! There were stages of development. Plants, Animals and fish were put on Earth before man was. Man was created on the 6th day - and on the 7th (Sabbath) God rested from his work.

Answer 2

God created man last, not first. Read the Genesis account for this information. Therefore, dinosaurs were created along with all other land creatures before man was created on the sixth day.

Answer 3

If the branch into days is seen as Moses' attempt to deliver Earth's historic previous into attitude for a people who would desire to no longer understand the huge scale of historic previous, this would be a generic timeline: Day one million: the creation of sunshine, comparable to the formation of the solar. Day 2: an "expanse...and God stated as the expanse 'sky'." At this factor the cloud of debris is initiating to style itself out into the planets, and Earth's ecosystem is initiating to style. Day 3: water and dry floor, then flowers. After the Earth itself formed, the geography would start to take shape. Water vapor from the interior would get away, condense, and steadily deliver mutually in basins to style the oceans. the 1st plantlike organisms is additionally performing around this time, nonetheless with a miles-thick cloud layer surrounding the planet, they does not yet be photosynthetic. Day 4: the solar, moon, and stars. The cloud layer would ultimately start to break up, and for the 1st time the cosmos would be seen from the outdoors. Day 5: fish and birds. the 1st considerable aquatic animals would start to look, as would some flying creatures, nonetheless actual birds does not come for a mutually as longer. Day 6: animals and human beings. The dinosaurs would have had consistent with hazard an hour or so around mid-morning. Adam and Eve have been created final, which possibly corresponds to approximately 11 o'clock at evening.

Answer 4

God created the birds of the air and the fish of the sea on the fifth day and on the sixth day he created the animals of the land before he created Adam. This is in chapter one in Genesis. Chapter 2 has a more precise explanation of the Adam and Eve creation.

Answer 5

I think people are the 6th "day" and the creation story of genesis is like a parable. Don't take it too literally and don't expect that God inspired Moses with all the details. Only the base facts he needed.
...Our universe wasn't always here. It was created by God with many diverse creatures in order of less complicated to more complicated. Creation (to this point at least) is capped with the creation/evolution of man. A creation that is conscious of its creator and is similar to him in some ways.

Answer 6

The topic of dinosaurs in the Bible is part of a larger ongoing debate within the Christian community over the age of the earth, the proper interpretation of Genesis, and how to interpret the physical evidences we find all around us. Those who believe in an older age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does not mention dinosaurs, because according to their paradigm, dinosaurs died out millions of years before the first man ever walked the earth. The men who wrote the Bible down couldn’t have seen dinosaurs alive.

Those who believe in a younger age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does mention dinosaurs though it never actually uses the word “dinosaur.” Instead, it uses the Hebrew word tanniyn (pronounced tan-neen; Strong’s #08577). Tanniyn is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles; sometimes it’s “sea monster,” sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon.” The tanniyn appear to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and are found both on land and in the water.

In addition to mentioning these giant reptiles in general nearly thirty times throughout the Old Testament, the Bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. Behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail is likened to a cedar tree (Job 40:15ff). Some scholars have tried to identify Behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus. Others point out that elephants and hippopotamuses have very thin tails, nothing comparable to a cedar tree. Dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus and the Diplodocus on the other had huge tails which one could easily compare to a cedar tree.

Nearly every ancient civilization has some sort of art depicting giant reptilian creatures. Petroglyphs, artifacts and even little clay figurines found in North America resemble modern depictions of dinosaurs. Rock carvings in South America depict men riding Diplodocus-like creatures and, amazingly, bear the familiar images of Triceratops-, Pterodactyl- and Tyrannosaurus Rex-like creatures. Roman mosaics, Mayan pottery and Babylonian city walls all testify to man’s trans-cultural, geographically-unbounded fascination with these creatures. Sober accounts like those of Marco Polo’s Il Milione mingle with fantastic tales of treasure-hoarding beasts. Modern day reports of sightings persist though they are usually treated with overwhelming skepticism.

In addition to the substantial amount of anthropic and historical evidences for the coexistence of dinosaur and man, there are other physical evidences, like the fossilized footprints of humans and dinosaurs found together at places in North America and West-Central Asia.

So, are there dinosaurs in the Bible? The matter is far from settled. It depends on how you interpret the available evidences and how you view the world around you. Here at GotQuestions.org we believe in a young earth interpretation and accept that dinosaurs and man coexisted. We believe that dinosaurs died out sometime after the Flood due to a combination of dramatic environmental shifts and the fact that they were relentlessly hunted to extinction by man.

Answer 7

In Genesis 2, it is stated that man came before animals.

Of course Genesis 1 states that animals came before man.

So, what does this say for the bible?

Ronin, you beat me by 22 seconds. Good job.

Answer 8

"Dinosaurs" did come before man, but in Job 40, God talks about the behemoth which does fit the description of "dinosaurs"

Answer 9

Genesis 1 says humans were first. Genesis 2 says animals were first.

You figure it out.

Answer 10

in which religion u found that God created man first? Adam is the first man but not the first creature.