I'm curious. Don't know much about the bible but I'm wondering.....?

Question

If there were dinosours on earth and cave men b.c. then how did God create the earth and skies in 7 days. I don't know much about this and every one that I ask doesn't give the answer. Can any one tell me.

Answer 1

that the bible can not explain

Answer 2

You wrote:
If there were dinosours on earth
This is indisputable!

Then how did God create the earth and skies in 7 days.
Whatever you believe about evolution or the age of the earth, one does not logically preclude the other. That is, existence of dinosaurs and cavemen does not in and of themselves invalidate the Genesis account. If you are implying impossibility on the basis of great age or supposed evolution, that is a different matter. You weren't very clear. What exactly do you mean?

Tom

Answer 3

They're not literal "days".

True, a day can mean a 24 hour period. But also, it can mean an unspecified amount of time. For example, you parents probably told you stories saying: "Back in my day we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow". Likewise, in Genesis the days spoken of in the first chapter are not literal days. How do we know this?

When reading Genesis chapter 1, the Bible shows that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 creative "days", or time periods and resting on the seventh. However, in chapter two of Genesis (vs 4) it sums all those 6 days into 1 day saying 'the day God made heaven and earth'. Thus, we can se that Genesis chapters 1 and 2 are not giving us an exact time table of the creation of the earth and heavens. Rather, it is just ginving us a glimpse of the order in which God created things from the earth's standpoint.

So, in the Bible a "day" can mean:
-a 24 hour periond
-daytime, or daylight
-a time contemporaneous with a person (Noah's day, or, "back in my day")
-an unspecified amount of time (for example 2 Peter 3:8 says that a thousand years with man is like a day to God)

It depends on the context of the scripture to determine the meaning of the word "day". The context in Genesis is referring to an unspecified time, the beginning and end of each creative time period in Genesis is said to be a "day". Some of these days could have been hundreds of thousands of years or longer.

Some people believe that each of those days were an exact thousand years long. However, that would be incorrect. Remember, that Genesis said that God proceeded to rest on the seventh day. Was that day exactly a thousand years long? No, because the Bible shows that 6,000 years later we are still in that seventh day today (Hebrews 4:10)

The idea that the earth was created in 6 24-hour days is simply wrong. True, nothing is impossible with God. But nothing in the Bible indicates that each of those days are 24 hour periods. In fact, like I mentioned earlier the 7th day has lasted over 6,000 years so far.

Answer 4

The story of the Creation in Genesis (the first book of the Bible) is not a scientific account of origins. It is a spiritual account. It tells us things that are spiritually true and important, such as that everything which exists was created from the mind and will of God, that everything has a purpose and place in the beautiful pattern, and that human beings are different from everything else in nature because we are made "in God's image", -- that is, we are like him in some way which the rest of nature is not. The Bible does not necessarily have anything to say about the material processes by which organisms and natural systems evolved. Those are questions of interest and importance to science, but irrelevant to spiritual matters. The Bible is a book about spiritual matters, not about science. You would look in a dictionary if you wanted the etymology of a word, an almanac if you wanted a table of statistics, and a science book if you wanted a list of chemicals and their properties. You wouldn't look in a science book to find a discussion of the human soul. And you wouldn't look in a Bible to find the periodic table of the elements. Each kind of book has its own place, and we should try not to mix them up.

Answer 5

God made them. Just like he made everything else. Its confusing for some. But the bible doesnt mention it. Its not important. But Dinosours are animals (well, not humans,) he made them along with everything else. No such thing as "cavemen" more like dead people from a long time ago, decendents of adam and eve.

Answer 6

1. Night and day in Biblical terms may not necessarily be 24 hours. (See Genesis 1).
2. Dinosaurs in the Bible are called by another name(s). Remember the term dinosaur was created in the 1800's.

Does that give you a start presently

Answer 7

Man walked the earth with "dinosaurs" (a term which wasn't created until the 1800s).

The creation took place in 6 24hour days. Other verses support that fact.

See the articles below.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs walked the planet, we have evidence in the bones being found. We can't explain it other than yes they were here... and just because the scientist claim the earth is millions if not billions of years old, who are they to say it is so? Why not question them on their findings and find out what they have determined to be 100 years old vs 2007 years old, vs 100M years old? I question the scientist, who died and made their findings "all truth" (being sarcastic here)

Answer 9

There were not cave men. God made man and woman as we are now- and God can create the world in 6 days, for anything is possible with him- and in the Bible each day ends with "this was the first day, second day, thrid day etc..."
So that God is showing us HE DID create this world in 6 days and on the 7th He rested.
References to dinosaurs in the bible are called "beasts of the earth" and also Leviathan which is in Job.

Answer 10

There is the Holy Trinity-Trinity meaning 3. God, His son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit-which resides in you with your spirit if you are a Christian. So simply put before Christ was his Father God who created the world in 7 days.

Answer 11

I don't think the 7 days is to be taken that literally