Hi i'm a very active member of the LDS church. Last year we're talking about Dinosaurs and i've started to think 'that God put them on earth to test are fate in him and see who stays ture to the church!' so i love to read what people think of this... so please reply!
2007-09-05 18:48:01 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a test, alright. To determine which folks need a little more help than others.
2007-09-05 18:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Dinosaur bones are displayed in museums all over the world, but some people have believed and told their children that dinosaurs don’t fit with the Bible and so they must be a big hoax designed to convince people of evolution.
While denying their existence may seem like a quick and simple way to avoid the topic, this response is going to prove to be hard to swallow as people come in contact with the evidence.
The thing is, dinosaurs fossils have been found on all seven continents—from North America to Antarctica. Their traces are even found on a few isolated oceanic islands. We have found the remains of their bones, eggs, footprints, and even some imprints from their skin.
There can be no doubt about it, dinosaurs really did exist. The evidence for their existence is too overwhelming. An honest investigation indicates that dinosaurs definitely roamed this earth.
That said, there is plenty of evidence of man and dinosaurs living contemporaneously.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dinosaurs.asp
2007-09-06 08:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made "flying creatures" and "great sea monsters." Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.-Genesis 1:20-24.When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by GOD for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake.
2007-09-05 19:00:05 · answer #3 · answered by EBONY 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, it's already obvious that you are a religious freak, but...
Science vs. Faith... that is in the end the question you are asking...
Do we trust what we as humans have deemed as true and absolute knowledge (Science) or do we place all of our effort into the idea that we don't need to know/understand anything because it's all His doing (Faith)...
Myself, I'm agnostic... I cannot choose whether one or the other is correct or incorrect (or both either way). I lean much more towards the scientific thought pattern (being that I have a natural logical/rational train of thought); however, I don't want to give up on the idea that somehow/someway I could live forever in some shape or form. =)
2007-09-05 18:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by wjb0000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I assume by your answer that you believe god spoke and everything popped! into being?
I prefer to think that if a god created everything, it (not he) did it in such a way as to make it a process for man to play with and learn.
Well, man is inquisitive. Would it not be infinitly more entertaining to watch man discover the world and figure out all these strange things about it?
Why does believing in dinosaurs destroy the faith you have in god. Maybe dinosaurs are there merely as something to learn from for man, another lesson.
2007-09-05 18:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by devinthedragon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm. I'm also a Christian and I believe in Creation too. But how can you not believe in dinosaurs? We have their bones. They existed. Not a theory-- Fact!
There was actually a mis-translation into english from the original texts. It says that "In the beginning, the earth was void", when it should actually say that "In the beginning the earth BECAME void." With this information, I have no problems whatsoever in believing in both creation AND an ancient earth. Look to the Masoric texts (The Masorah) to confirm what I said.
2007-09-05 19:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by lizardmama 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Be a member of an many Churches or other organizations but do retain your rational thinking.By just closing our eyes,things don't vanish.If you refuse to believe in any thing with a solid proof and also go on to say that you don't believe in it in spite of the proof then you are heading for problems in your life.,This is the stuff of which fanatics are made of.Be careful.
2007-09-05 19:03:06 · answer #7 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, they are real, that is not normal, dinosaurs exist and everyone in the world knows it's true why hide from the real truth, there are dinosaurs!!!! you are convincing yourself to believe in other facts that isn't real
go to a museum about dinosaurs, you'll see them, it's the truth
the belief that god made everything from the beginning of time is false
it is a figment of mindless people's imagination, the universe was here before you knew what god was dinosaurs were here before you knew god was, so it maybe normal for you but i say you are an IDIOT
use ******* common sense you idiot, heard of it????
2007-09-05 18:58:25 · answer #8 · answered by alloutfallout 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs once walked the earth whether a person 'believes' in them or not, and they did so for a great many millions of years. They became extinct millions of years before mammals emerged from hiding places under the ground, millions of more years before those little bitty mammals evolved to become homo habilis, then homo erectus, then homo sapiens--you and me and the other primates who are now making a bloody mess of things on this little blue rock.
2007-09-05 19:15:49 · answer #9 · answered by Yank 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you misheard the phrase "our faith" as "are fate", who knows what else you misheard?
Seriously though, if you want to believe in a God who knowingly tries to mislead people, go ahead. However most Chrstians I know view God as a loving God, not a deceitful one.
2007-09-05 20:46:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, they are scientific fact. But, you don't accept that.
Maybe you need to read through the book of Job.
There are two dinosaurs mentioned- The first is "Behemoth" which nicely describes an apatosaurus.
The second is "Leviathan"... It describes a sea-going dino.
2007-09-05 19:05:02 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋