for christians or religious types...?

Question

explain dinosaurs
and how that fits in with jesus

i cant wrap my head around believing every word of the bible and yet humanity has only been around for about a second in the history of the earth, and civilization of dinosaurs was here a long long time and long long before us.

so explain how dinosaurs fits into your religion basically.
free speech
say anything-

justify the purpose of the dinosaurs
in relating to jesus

obviously before christ so why didnt he mention it to us? jesus couldnt been making millions from all the oil..

Answer 1

Jesus did not mention dinosaurs I think, because he did not come to clarify or justify God as the creator, but to show us how loving God really is as opposed to the character presented in older and newer scriptures, he is patient and benevolent in Jesus, to show us as well how we can overcome evil, the evil that was about to come to us. Imaging that Hitler was just a beginning of things.

Every perfect system of life, and of things existent under the heavens gives testimony that God is the creator.

The dinosaurs were living before us, as you know, God did not make magic to create the world, but he managed the process of creation driving the forces and the elements, pieces and atoms to form all living and no living things. The fact that it is resumed in six days does not literally implies six human days. If you read Genesis you Will see that actual grounds for the process of evolution was put out in the bible long, long time before theory of evolution came in Darwin's mouth. Only that evolution served creation only within each species separately, and only until organisms were formed as perfect systems of life.

Genesis is a box of surprises and a book written for a scrutinizing generation as ours, but we must read it, as well as the rest, taking in mind that there were there two trees all the time, one of wisdom, one of good and evil, therefore you will find things that only by the hand of God can be understood as what is truth and what is addition.

It is as the same concept of the Universe with creative force and black holes at the same time, perhaps stephen hawkings was right and there is also a parallel Universe to come in which there are not black holes.

Answer 2

The Bible says that both animals and man were created on the 6th day.(Genesis 1:24-26) It doesn't mention dinosaurs specifically, but then the word didn't exist when the Bible was written, and the account of the their creation doesn't mention any animals by name.

It's likely that God did create dinosaurs although not in a form recognizable to us. According to the fossil record, some had bodies too big for their skeletons, while others had brains too small to function properly. There were giant birds that couldn't fly and animals so huge they had to remain in water to support their bulk. This doesn't sound like God's work to me. Remember, at the end of Day 6 He pronounced everything good.

The apocryphal Book of Enoch hints that Satan was tinkering with animal genetics after the Creation just like he did with mankind. His tinkering with the human gene pool produced the Nephilim, a half breed mix of angel and man that took over the world and was a major cause for Noah's flood.

To me many of the dinosaurs look more like a science experiment gone bad than the handiwork of the Creator of the Universe. I think Satan was messing with them, as another way to corrupt God's perfect Creation.

Answer 3

Sure

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. As the Creator of all things, God is not His creation. If you put everything in a box that God created, He would be the only thing outside the box.

When God is the Creator, then all of creation has a purpose. That purpose defines what is right and wrong for that creation. So like a car has a different purpose than a pocket fisherman, so a dinosaur has a different purpose than man.

God, as the Creator gets to decide what that purpose is as a person can not determine his or her purpose after he or she was born. Purpose is determined at creation and within a specific range, and all people exist in that range.

Jesus said that our purpose is to
Love God with all our hearts, minds and spirits and
Love our neighbors as ourselves.

If we do these things, we will live. If we don't do these things, we will be broken. And as Jesus made us, so Jesus can fix us when we are broken.

As the creator, Jesus can determine when a purpose is no longer existing. Therefore, you don't find dinosaurs but you do find men.

The opposite is also true. If E=MC^2 is your creator, then you have no purpose. Without a purpose to measure against, there can be no right or wrong.

Therefore, when "survival of the fittest" is your religion, you can do to anyone as you want and anyone can do to you as they want. The goal of the religion is "survival" and natural selection is only interested whether you survived ...regardless of how many killed and torturered lie in your wake or if you were the one tortured or killed.

What you can't say is that E=MC^2 provides you with a purpose thereby establishing a "right" and a "wrong"

Answer 4

Dinosaurs were part of God's creation. Chances are that most were destroyed in the Great Flood, and those that survived didn't last much longer after the Flood. If you go to this website, http://www.chick.com you'll get another side to the story, better than I can give here.

As for the connection to Jesus, He probably didn't think the dinosaurs were all that important! He raised a few people to life after they died, but nowhere in the Bible will you read of Him reviving an animal of any kind. Jesus came to bring salvation to people, and people just like you and me are worth many times more than any of the animal kingdom.

Answer 5

Easy, all creatures were created on the fifth and sixth day of creation. You do know that on average, dinosaurs were about the size of a small horse, and that evidence has been found (red blood cells in dinosaur bones) to show their young age?
Christ, as the Sovereign God, created them.

Col 1:16 For all things were created in Him, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, the visible and the invisible; whether thrones, or lordships, or rulers, or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Col 1:17 And He is before all things, and all things have subsisted in Him.

Answer 6

Even die hard fundie Christians don't believe that there is any relationship between dinosaurs and Jesus. That's two completely different time frames (2000 years ago versus billions of years ago). I think what you meant to ask was how does the existence of dinosaurs fit into the creation story that the bible portrays.

Answer 7

Well, we reject evolution so we don't agree with you that dinosaurs have been around before us or for any longer than we have been here. They were created at the same time as all the other animals, and have become extinct. So how does it fit in? It is part of the amazing creation of God.

Answer 8

OK, here is an answer , consider it before you dismiss it, there was a fight in heaven and the devil and his angles were cast down to earth, until the end where they would be cast in to the lake of fire, some of the descriptions given of some the the creatures in heaven even that are there now resembles what we may think a dinosaur, read about some of the descriptions , a seven headed dragon and even the angle that protects the throne. just a thought

Answer 9

If you look at this scripture Matthew 7:18, in fact it's short so ill type it in. "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. So what is the fruit we are talking about? Jesus is speaking of those who do good deeds, also the fruit of the lips when we speak well of our God and praise Him always. So as to answer your question, the religion that would be that right one is the one you see these things with in them. However, some people without any denomination do what is right in the sight of God and they too will have a part in the pleasures of the hereafter. One more thing. Without saying what religion you are one can say "I submit to God and His will entirely" and that would be best if you but knew.

Answer 10

Actually, the science points to humans living with dinosaurs. I would research cave drawings, writings from ancient historians, and archaeological finds, such as fresh dinosaur bones. Check out the website below to start. Lots of info there. (But, I know you probably won't, because you're not really here seeking info, you're simply here to mock the beliefs of other people.)