Without wishing to destroy anyones beliefs, but .....?

Question

Without wishing to destroy anyones beliefs, but if God created the earth in 7 days and put Adam and Eve on It , where did the dinosaurs come in ?

Answer 1

Not 7 literal days......

Answer 2

Man. We did it. God put two of every animal (seven of the clean) that He had created upon the Ark, right? There were NO Dino's on board! There are no records of God creating this earth more than once. Remember, Gem 1:1-4. This world was 'without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep', this means the this world was a blob floating around in darkness. Yes literal days, vs 4 'and the evening and the morning were the first day.' vs 8, 13, 19, 23, 31, 2:1-3 the seventh day (Sabbath). Adam and Eve were in the garden on the FIFTH day and spent the Sabbath with God.

Answer 3

Its not destroying anyone's beliefs. As for dinosaurs they may have lived on the earth while Adam and Eve were present. There was a massive flood during the time of Noah, perhaps a good portion dinosaurs had died during this time.

Answer 4

Geneses is full of allusions and is from the East where nuances are better understood than in the West. it tells a story of the creation but like many Christians I do not read it literally because the contrary has been proved. The Holy Bible never ever sets out to prove there is a God it assumes from the start, There are, I know that some Christians regard the creation story as literally true but in doing so unwittingly actually discredit the faith. Christians must accept that new findings in Science are often a further revalation of the wonders of God not a contradiction. However i often feel that certain scientific practises and research flies in the face of what God desired of us .

Answer 5

The bible says God created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. The beasts of the field were created on the same day man was created. God brought all the animals to Adam to be named. The word dinosaur was not used until the 19th century. That is why it is not in the bible. The bible calls them dragons and behemoth. Look in the book of Job for other names and descriptions.

Answer 6

Thats just one of the many questions...I suppose they will say that Adam and Eve were the last thing to be created so the Dinosaurs were already created....or something like that.

Answer 7

You have it wrong, god did not create man, man created god, the dinosaurs died out 68 million years ago, long before man evolved.
you will not destroy the belief of religious followers no matter how strong the argument is, they believe without proof and only blind acceptance makes them not even question what is no more than a story.

Answer 8

although the bible doesn't mention dinosaurs directly it does indirectly in job Chs30-41 By saying about behemoth and leviathen. God created all animals and placed them on earth with man not trillions of years ago as the world is not that old

Answer 9

Didn't you know? Noah had TWO boats full of animals - the dinosaur boat hit an iceberg and sunk.

then a big title wave came along and spread the bones all over the world

The Bible never mentions it because God's plans supposedly never fail

Answer 10

Forget the lies, trust the science. At least science questions itself (how can we prove it is true? will it always be true? are we sure this was always true? etc). For an intellegent species, we are very good at making things up to comfort ourselves.

Besides, if God is real, and all powerful then he could stop the murder of children. For me, there is no convincing argument against this. Free will? Not. Good. Enough.
It shouldn't happen, period. If there is a God, I don't want to know him if he lets this happen when he could stop it.

Answer 11

You are delusional if you think completely unoriginal question would destroy anyone's beliefs. Religious folks have an infinite number of explanations to schoose from for that kind of stuff.