if dinosaurs rulled the earth before man, how come in each bible god created man on the 5th day?

Question

"26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

The bible never mentions dinosaurs and we have more proof of that then we do about a book or an Arch.

I think the bible was written long ago to teach people about morals and ethics not to kill others or toture each other and to be kind to others to respect them in this world. And share what we have.

what I'm trying to say is in the bible the earth was created then poof intelegent humans...............This just prooves that the bible is of course man made to teach people about life things but isn't true to the timeline of our history and how we became to humans. We were not from god but somethings else more natural and scientific. But hey I like being here.

Answer 1

Because bible is man-made and humankind had no knowledge of the dinosaurs until the late centuries.

Answer 2

Hi drewby93. Actually the Bible tells us the earth is a little more than 13,000 years old. Defiantly not billions of years old.

We need to remember that that written history only goes back to about 5,200 years ago. There is no proof of anything older than that.

Some people try to rely on carbon 14 dating, the problem is, if you are using carbon 14 dating, you have to assume that the carbon reservoir remained constant all the way back through history. This cannot be proven. Their conclusion will be a guess at best.

Carbon 14 dating is very accurate up to about 13,000 years. After that it varies, and it varies wildly.

I was at a museum a while back and there was a display of dinosaur bones. The sign said the bones were between 60,000 and 100,000 years old. That's a margin of 40,000 years for mistake. That is not science my friend, that's guess work.

For those who say that days or nights were thousands of hours long, that would be impossible. In Genesis 1:11-13 God tells us He created plants and fruits on the third day:

"Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so...13 So the evening and the morning were the third day."

On the forth day He created day and night. In Genesis 1:14-19 God tells us:

"Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and year...16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

Now, if the days were thousands of hours long all of the vegetation on the earth would have burned up because of all the sunlight. If the nights were thousands of hours long all of the vegetation on the earth would have died because vegetation needs light to grow, but too much sun or too much darkness will kill the vegetation. God created 4 seasons and He created 24 hour days, just like it is now.

Another question that those who believe the earth is billions of years old cannot answer, is sediment in the ocean floor. All rivers and streams have sediment in the water, this comes from the rocks, land and other sources. Rivers and streams empty into the ocean. Every time it rains more sediment is poured into the ocean. Scientists can measure and get a fair estimate of how much sediment goes into the ocean each year, so with this knowledge you should be able to multiply the amount of sediment going into the ocean by say, 100 million, and you could get a close estimate of how old the earth is. This is not the case. Scientists have also taken many core samples from the ocean floor and the sediment level is just not deep enouth to say the earth is billions or even millions of years old.

The sediment level on the floor of the ocean is not that deep. After all if it has been raining for 4 billion years then all of the sediment (soil and rocks) would have washed into the ocean a couple of million years ago and there would be no more soil left.

Answer 3

Read Job 40:15-24. Job was questioning God because of his suffering, and so God comes and challenges Job with His creation.

Many people say, “Job 40 can’t be speaking of a dinosaur.” They say that, not because the description doesn’t fit, but because of their preconceived conception that man and dinosaurs didn’t live together.

The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the hippopotamus or the elephant.” Something to keep in mind—the footnotes are not a part of the original text.

Well, the tail of an elephant or hippo is like a twig, not a cedar (most dogs have longer tails). Throughout the Scriptures, cedars were known for their great size and length. Nothing on earth today fits this description, but a sauropod type of dinosaur does. The largest we have found was over 120 feet long. That sounds to me like the “chief”—not a hippo.

And then in Job 41, God describes the Leviathan (Isaiah 27:1 calls it the dragon in the sea.) The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the crocodile.” But the description again doesn’t fit any animal alive today. Besides, man has never had a problem catching crocodiles, even primitive tribes, but God says in Job 41 that Leviathan couldn’t be caught.

Some think this was just a mythical creature since it speaks of it breathing fire. And yes, Job is a poetic book and those could just be poetic descriptions. But not necessarily. Impossible you say? What about the electric eel that can produce enough electricity to stun a horse? If the electric eel was extinct and all we could find were its fossils, would we be able to know that it could generate electricity? Nope. What about the firefly and anglerfish that can produce light? What about the bombardier beetle that can fire a boiling mixture of chemicals at its enemies that is 212 degrees Fahrenheit?

Why couldn’t God have created certain water-living reptiles that were capable of expelling hot gaseous fumes that could ignite? Most animals produce methane anyway, which is a flammable gas. Stories of fire-breathing dragons have circulated for thousands of years.

Also, keep in mind that Behemoth and Leviathan were included along with real creatures that Job knew about. Read Job sometime.

In Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah speaks of flying serpents. I also find it interesting that Herodotus, the Greek Historian who lived around 450 BC wrote about flying serpents in Arabia. He talked about finding their bones and described their snake-like bodies and bat-like wings. And the Jewish historian from the first century, Josephus, wrote about Moses and the Israelites having a difficult time passing through a particular region because of the presence of flying serpents. I think they were speaking of one of the pterosaurs like the pterodactyl, pteranodon, or rhamphorhynchus.

Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs.

Answer 4

To answer your question, 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, LXX). 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.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.

Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim′ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra′kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.

Answer 5

The days in the bible arn't the same length days as we have now. The earth was being formed, one day could be a million years. Dinosaurs are included in the Bible, in the day before man is created

Answer 6

I believe that God created man on the 6th day, at least I'm pretty sure that was when He did.

The word dinosaur was made up by the modern age. About dinosaurs(or dragons and great sea monsters, as they were called), they were mentioned in the Bible.
Check out this link which has scriptures: http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/bible/bible.htm

Answer 7

Well It is difficult to answer ...I have before so I will answer it again...

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The one thing that needs to be said about this subject is, we know for sure what God had done from the beginning. He created, it was not anything man did, and there was no other outside force that helped. There was no big bang, no unexplainable theories. Everything God did He knows about, and can if He so chooses to reveal his knowledge to his people.

We as the people of God do not debate such things because the Bible forbids us to. Therefore it can be said, that this topic has no bearing on the salvation that God gave to us through Jesus Christ.

People say experience is the best teacher. Generally we look to those who are older, because they are wiser. One reason is because we can say we look at things at 20/20 hindsight.

Based on the written word and the life God has given for us to compare, as Jesus did.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. That was it, by evidence we know that he created creatures in the earth, at that time. Dinosaurs and all the creatures that are of that nature. Including what men call caveman, because that they were not “a living soul” they were not called man. They were called beasts OR creatures. Remember there is evidence of these things. AS Christians we do not believe they evolved, we understand that they were created by God from the beginning.



Science says they were probably 5 or 10 million years old, that’s fine, since if you haven’t noticed what God had not created in Genesis 1:1 was time. Many Christians would believe that the earth may be only 10,000 years old If, the verse saying “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”(2 Peter 3:8)
This verse was never intended to say that a day with the Lord is a thousand years. This verse was to mean that, time does not mean the same thing to God as to man because time was not created for him. Time was created for man. Since God had not yet created time in Genesis 1:1 it could have very well been a million or a billion, either way you know that time did not exist.

In Genesis 1 when God created the heavens and earth he also created the angels. Some were Cherubim, some Seraphim. There are Hosts, choirs and angels whose sole purpose is to fly around forever crying holy, holy, holy. Lucifer was one of them. A cherub angel who was the most beautiful angel. His construction even included pipes for creating music, its no wonder music is so influential to our young people.

Let me remind you that God does not create confusion. That is evident, because in the book of Isaiah 11:6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

With God there is no fear, confusion, hatred or evil.
So before Lucifer fell there had to be peace and tranquility on earth. When he fell into the earth, he brought with him evil, confusion, and that dog eat dog mentality.

He saw Gods creation and always purposed to steal Gods glory.
No doubt he probably tried to get them to worship him, but Isaiah 42:8 says “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”

God was not going to allow the devil to take over his creation in the earth. SO He has to destroy them. In comes the ice age, that is evident. How it came about I don’t know, but if you remove the light, you also remove the source of heat. We know that the light was removed because of the next verse. Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Now you begin to see Gods plan unfold and in it, you see the new element which we know now as time.
Genesis 1:3-5 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
UP until you get to the seventh day, God created.

Again when Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel you see this lapse of time, which explains how it is Cain when he was banished all of a sudden has a wife. Adam and Eve continued to have kids after Cain and Abel. Genesis 5: 4. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Evidently much time had passed for Adam and Eves kids to grow up. Cain’s wife was probably a sister or cousin as we know it.

In those days the law was not yet written and the only way to repopulate the earth was sister and brother to come together. Still mother and son OR Father and daughter did not get together. Later in the law it became a sin to even uncover their nakedness. Today the law is in effect concerning incest, and it is no longer allowable.

There may be many things that seem unexplainable, but if God so chooses he will reveal them to his people.

In the end the Bible says that God will be all and in all. The way it was from the beginning.

Answer 8

First, God created animals before he created man on the 7th day not 5th(read Bible). Do you you think he mentioned every animal he created? One God-day could be thousands of years on earth or 50 million. That's why God got tired at the end of creation. Before he created man, Dinosaurs could have got extinct.

Answer 9

Who said day a "day" to God is 24 hours? Maybe a day to one who is timeless is relative.

We know man was not created at the time the Earth was formed. Perhaps this is just a way to say Man came later in the earth's development. As for the 7th day of rest, this was God's way of saying, there's a time to work and a time to rest.

Answer 10

Since you seem to have it all figured out, can you tell me if God could have created them both near the same time but kept Adam away from a world that had already been corrupted by the angles that were cast out of Heaven? So death reined outside the Garden (God's protection)... Jim

Answer 11

Correction, God made man on the 6th day. And, God didn't say mention Lions, or Tigers or Bears, oh my, and they're not livestock, or creatures that move along the ground, but they existed.