I am a christian myself, yet get puzzled sometime as to where did dinasours fit into the creation. I mean was they before adam and eve? and that may sound silly to some, but to God one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. So I figure in genesis when it says day1,day2, ect. it could be 1,000 yrs. inbetween those "days".
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Dinosaurs were here before Adam and Eve. The bible didn't focus on the creation of the earth. Genesis focused mainly on the creation, rise, and fall of man.
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i'm pretty sure you know the Christian view... this is something i've been thinking about a good bit lately - Genesis talks about 'when a man leaves his parents and basically takes a wife... they live together and become one.. sorry - paraphrasing i dont like... i'll add more as i research\nI'm curious more because of the jewish prophecy concerning the messiah; of a virgin, yet of the line of David. \n& my head hurts.
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when it says that he will come as in the days of Noah, the writer is trying to give us a gimpse in to what will be going on around us at that time. before Noah and the flood, the Bible says the earth was wicked. likewise when he returns. and don't listen to people that tell you that he will only return AFTER the trib, that isn't true. the Bible says that God does not "provoke his children to wrath"  we have trials here but that isn't one that we will be here to see. \nin fact, the church isn't mention after Revelation chapter 4. because we are not here.\nhe will reign here for 1000 years but you are getting into something deep there! he will set up his new Kingdom, the New Jerusalem. \none more fact, that you might find worth listening to. when Jesus comes back for his saints, his feet will not touch this earth, we will go to him.. the only time his feet will touch this earth again, is during the 1000 year reign. \nI hope this helps some :-)
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Bible says God created animals. But not as they are NOW. Nowhere does it even elude to the fact that animals would never evolve, mutate or branch off. Creationists dont believe that animals, and humans have not changed, or even evolved with time. Nature would do that, animals would adapt as habitats changed. Thats just common sense.\n\nDinosaur bones. Not Satan. Who is to say that Donsaurs did not walk the earth? I dont believe God created the world in 6 days, but that it was an example, a metaphore if you will. Gods time is not our time, and Dinosaurs could have been created, and extinct before Adam even came to be.
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I would ask you to pull out the Bible that it appears you're already a little familiar with. Notice. It does NOT say that Adam and Eve were the ONLY people God created, just the first. Two points:\n\nA) Cain took a wife after he killed Abel... Hmm... The only woman on Earth at the time that the Bible tells about is Eve... Where did he get his wife? (God made other individuals elsewhere).\n\nB) When God banished Cain from the garden, he said that people would surely find him and kill him, wherever he went... If his mom and dad and brothers and sisters were the only people God had created, what was he afraid of???\n\nTo your second notion, the Ages... The Bible REPEATEDLY says that God's time is not like our time and that a second to God could be a million years here on Earth. Isaiah is the best example. "My ways are not like the ways of man." Meaning, simply, that God doesn't operate the same way we do.\n\nIn summation, it is quite simple for Christians to believe in both Creation and Evolution... You just have to be willing to do your homework...
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The term "in his image" means not what he looks like (god) but what he imagined man to look like. Yes Man did exist outside of Eden.  "Cain then traveled to the land of Nod and there he knew his wife".  Only the decendants of Adam and Eve are cursed.  Since there were those outside of Eden they are without sin.  God did not flood the entire earth, in fact it was the river Nile that had flooded and washed away those in the local area.  Otherwise how would you account for the pacific civilizations.  The bible is full of metaphores.  You must take the stories and see beyond the words to see what little truth is left in them.  The original bible had over 100 books in it.  It got whittled down to what we recognize today, by different Popes, Bishops, and Kings taking out what they thought didn't fit the story.  Gutenburg was the first to put it all together.  Also consider these stories have been handed down for many centuries and in so the translations became blurry.  By the way I am not a Christian but a Witch, I take the time to study other belief systems so I can better understand my brothers and sisters.
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I am not sure where you got those figures but they are not correct. We do not have the exact time fram from Adam out. The earth is approximately 6000 years old. The only thing we know for sure is that Jesus was born in 1ad and was crucified and resurrected in 32ad. So right now we are 1974 from when Jesus died and rose again. There so there is around 4000 years prior to Jesus coming. The prophecy in Daniel 9 refers to the coming of the Messiah. The prophecy begins with the command to rebuild Jerusalem which came in Nehemiah 1 on our Calendar March 14th 445bc. It goes forward 473 years to April 6 32ad when Jesus presented Himself as Messiah to the Jews on what we now call palm Sunday. We do not know when satan will be bound in the pit but it will not come until the end of the tribulation (the 70th week of Daniel). We do not know when the tribulation will begin. So again those numbers you have are way off base and mean absolutely nothing in reality because we do not know the exact amount of time that passed from creation to Jesus. Keep your eyes on what is clearly revelaed in Scripture and don't worry about extrabiblical ideas.
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I'll check the sites out.\n\nThere are so many evidences beyond this that God created everything. \n\nThere is order and design in the universe that cannot be explained.  It couldn't just happen.\n\nMutations are degenerative.  There hasn't been a mutation that crossed the line of species that hasn't been degenerative.  \n\nI absolutely agree that God created everything in 6 literal 24 hour days.
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Not explicitly. But many Christians take the liberty to give a compatible meaning to the Creation story. When God made the animals of the earth in one day...some say that that includes dinosaurs and that one day in "God's time" is symbolic for a period of time that's extraordinarly long in human terms.\n\nThen again, I've also heard people who dismiss the whole dinosaur discovery thing as something the devil planted in the ground to shake people's faith.
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The bible's description of "the six days" is not intended to imply 24 hour earth days but instead 6 epoch of times in which fundamentally significant elements were created. It is interesting to note that when the six "days" are reflected against the generally well accepted theories on evolution of the universe and ultimately earth, the six epochs relate quite well to the process of "first there was light" (perhaps big bag), ..., "firmament" (as in the early life on earth), ..., to eventually human creation. Disosaurs, I believe, are grouped in to the "day" in which floura, fauna and animals were created. I hope this helped in some way.
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My dads a christian minister, and he believes in evolution - he says that the creation story in the bible is like a parable, but in acutal fact it took much much longer than 7 days to create everything, and evolution is part of god's plan - it's how he created everything.  He says that evolution cannot be agrued with, as there are no holes in the 'theory' - it is a fact, not a theory,  so the only sensible way to look at the creation story is as a parable.
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The Bible speaks of 6 creative days.  It does not say that the days lasted 24 hours.  A day can indicate a period of time (in Noah's day, for example).  The Bible also says that a 1000 years is a day to God.  On the seventh day he rested from his creative works.  We are still in the seventh day of rest.  (we see this seventh day is longer than 24 hours, and longer than a 1000 years)  Scientific evidence supports that the earth is 4 billion years old.
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It could have been millions of years for all we know. The Bible is written in Hebrew. The word that translates into day refers to "a period of time". That was doubrful a twenty-hour hour period. Besides, if I day is measured by the earth's rotation around the sun, how would the creation of the earth and sun be measured? Days as we know them did not exist yet, because they sun and earth didn't exist yet. \nCouldn't have been timed on a stopwatch. \nSo yes, it was probably millions of years, years as we know them - so many revolutions around the sun.
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.
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A little over 200 years ago, man thought the world was flat.  Their world had "limits" for them to believe that.  At the time of Noahs flood, their world, the area they knew around them was even a smaller area.  The flood of Noah was just in the area that Noah knew and lived. I'm sure most Christians don't belive in evolution,..so WHY would one make a statement that all the races came from Noah?  Races do NOT evolve. Noah was of a TRIBE of certian people.  Noah was a decendent from Adam.  The name Adam means ruddy complected,..to see blush in the face.  Some need to reread Genesis.  On the sixth day God made both man AND woman.  He gave these peoples to fish and hunt.(the races)...Then on the seventh day God rested,...and THEN He saw He had no man to till the ground. That's when God made Adam,..for the garden.  Then God saw that Adam was alone, so God made from Adams rib a woman especially for him.  Rib means curve,...like in our Helixs curve today;..DNA. Bone of Adams bone, flesh of his flesh.\nThe flood of Noah was in the area that Noah lived,...and it was brought on because of the geber/giants, offspring of the fallen angels.God sent the flood to that area to rid it of the giants.   God shook this earth way before the flood of Noah and way before He made man flesh. Just another thought;...When Noah sent out the dove, the dove brought back an olive leaf.  IF the flood totally destroyed all the earth, then how does a olive tree grow and set forth leaves in such a short time?...  Notice too how many times seven is used?  Seven means Spiritual Perfection.
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Been watching one of those Startreck movies again, eh? I do believe if God did make life outside the Earth, he would have mentioned it in the Bible. Say, Gen. 1:18 "Then God created the Aliens without likeness of man, and placed them in other planets where darkness was. He breathed life to it, making it alive." v19 "He did not want Adam & Eve to know so he kept it a secret to thousand of thousands of generations."
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Have you noticed anything about what you just said? Did you notice in your reading that God created Woman Twice, once in Genesis 1:27, and then AGAIN in 2:22...Just read the whole thing if you need to...Dont let anyone tell you to not ask questions.