Dinosaurs

[Psalms Fan]

I don't think the Bible speaks much, if any, on dinosaurs (leviathan and behemoth may or may not be dinosaurs). But that doesn't mean that they did or didn't exist.

Also, dinosaurs are not just big lizards. Lizards are lizards, and dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Just like amphibians are amphibians and mammals are mammals. Dinosaurs have different bone structures than lizards, and are in fact closer to birds than to lizards. There are remarkable similarities between raptors and birds.

I don't have a doctrinal/theological answer for you about dinosaurs, since they're not a matter that God saw fit to give us as a matter of salvation history or anything pertaining to that in Scripture. I can give some words about the Resurrection or Christ's sufferings or the Trinity, but I don't have too many about dinosaurs or aliens or the ozone layer.

[stuart shepherd]

What is the biblical evidence for dinosaurs? also maybe any extrabiblical early Jewish/ancient literature?

Did God create dinosaurs in the time of Adam and Eve? hard to imagine a t-rex eating grass lol

If you have noticed there was another thread on ths forum about Lilith.

According to Jewish literature, Lilith was Adam's first wife before Eve. If this is true, this indicates that there are events which happened to the world before Adam and Eve started going steady. During this time and perhaps even before it, dinosaurs may have been created and then destroyed. There bones remain as a witness that they existed.

I have no idea if this is really true.....but it's a great story. But who knows.

Stuart Shepherd

[BrckBrln]

That does not answer the question did dinosaurs live at the same time as Adam?

It did and the answer is no. I wonder what everybody thinks about the scientific evidence that dinos lived long long ago?

[chad]

Some people believe there is a 4 billion year gap between verse 1 & 2.

From the Genesis account, We know that animals were created before man. A dinosaur is an animal.

There is no time before the Bible.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

[Watchmen]

If you have noticed there was another thread on ths forum about Lilith.

According to Jewish literature, Lilith was Adam's first wife before Eve. If this is true, this indicates that there are events which happened to the world before Adam and Eve started going steady. During this time and perhaps even before it, dinosaurs may have been created and then destroyed. There bones remain as a witness that they existed.

I have no idea if this is really true.....but it's a great story. But who knows.

Stuart Shepherd

Lilith is Jewish folk lore not biblical truth.

[Watchmen]

That does not answer the question did dinosaurs live at the same time as Adam? The Answer is yes, dinosaurs were created the same day as every other land animal.

Some people believe there is a 4 billion year gap between verse 1 & 2.

From the Genesis account, We know that animals were created before man. A dinosaur is an animal.

Some people think all types of things this does not make it true, and yes all animals were created before Adam and dinosaurs are animal, however all land animal were created on the 6th day as was Adam. Dinosaurs were not created billions of years before Adam but hours at the most.

[Equipped_4_Love]

I, personally, believe that dinosaurs existed before Adam, and this is because I really can't make logical sense of them existing with Adam.

If dinosaurs were created with Adam, then they would have had to exist at the time of Noah, right?

The Bible says that two of every animal was brought into the ark. So then, my question is.....how would all of the different kinds of dinosaurs have fit onto the ark? Dinosaurs are huge!!

Not only that, but what happened to them after the flood? Why are there none in existence any longer?

If they did not go on the ark, and they died in the Flood, then that would make the Bible untrue when it states that 2 of every animal was saved on the ark.

[chad]

Genesis, doesn't say how big or how old the animals were when they entered the ark. I guess it was possible they put baby dinosaurs on the ark, not fully grown ones.

It also doesn't specify how many species of animals there were at the time of creation. There may have been less species of animals who developed (evolved) into different species of animals, of the same grouping.

I, personally, believe that dinosaurs existed before Adam, and this is because I really can't make logical sense of them existing with Adam.

If dinosaurs were created with Adam, then they would have had to exist at the time of Noah, right?

The Bible says that two of every animal was brought into the ark. So then, my question is.....how would all of the different kinds of dinosaurs have fit onto the ark? Dinosaurs are huge!!

Not only that, but what happened to them after the flood? Why are there none in existence any longer?

If they did not go on the ark, and they died in the Flood, then that would make the Bible untrue when it states that 2 of every animal was saved on the ark.

[Partaker of Christ]

Some people believe there is a 4 billion year gap between verse 1 & 2.

From the Genesis account, We know that animals were created before man. A dinosaur is an animal.

The final authority in all matters is being questioned here.
The creator Himself.

Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Rev 4:9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Rev 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

So what does our Lord God Almighty tell us?

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mark 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Adam and Eve were from the BEGINNING of the creation.

[wildfire]

Adam and Eve were living in Eden, for a certain amount of time. When they were banned from Eden, the gate was closed and only when they ate the fruit did they begin to die.

Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.

[stuart shepherd]

That does not answer the question did dinosaurs live at the same time as Adam? The Answer is yes, dinosaurs were created the same day as every other land animal.

The Scientists date Dinosaurs long before mankind came into existence.

Are they wrong?
Is your understanding of the Bible correct?

Remember that the church at one time believed that the earth was the center of the solar system. Boy were they wrong!
But Science was right.

In the Gospels, Jesus heals by casting out demons. The medieval church tried to heal this way and failed. Little did they know that Jesus' demons were bacteria and viruses.

Stuart Shepherd

[faithbuilders]

I have a thought.... not to argue ..... not to state as fact ..... but a thought just the same.

"Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: "

That scripture implies that the serpent at one time had legs. Could the serpent realy have been a dinosore....? As the serpent lost his legs and became a snake, all it relatives may have done the same. Hmmmm

Yes I know that is thin. Just a thought anyway.

[David Taylor]

In the Gospels, Jesus heals by casting out demons. The medieval church tried to heal this way and failed. Little did they know that Jesus' demons were bacteria and viruses.

Scripture say that the demon's that Jesus cast out were wicked spirits, not germs.

Matt 4:24 And Jesus fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils"

Matt 8:16 "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits"

Matt 8:28 "And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils"

Luke 7:21 "And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits"

Luke 8:2 "And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils"

Acts 16:16 "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination"

[Watchmen]

I, personally, believe that dinosaurs existed before Adam, and this is because I really can't make logical sense of them existing with Adam.

If dinosaurs were created with Adam, then they would have had to exist at the time of Noah, right?

The Bible says that two of every animal was brought into the ark. So then, my question is.....how would all of the different kinds of dinosaurs have fit onto the ark? Dinosaurs are huge!!

Not only that, but what happened to them after the flood? Why are there none in existence any longer?

If they did not go on the ark, and they died in the Flood, then that would make the Bible untrue when it states that 2 of every animal was saved on the ark.

2 things

#1 You do not have to see the logic in it to believe God.

#2 Baby dinosaurs are not huge.

[Kahtar]

Little did they know that Jesus' demons were bacteria and viruses.

Mark 3:11-12
11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

Mark 5:9-13
9 And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.

I'm having a hard time imagining bacteria and viruses bowing before Jesus, speaking to Him, etc.
Off topic, I know.