JUST WONDERING SINCE RELIGION AND THAT HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE APPROX. 7 THOUSAND YEARS AND THAT AND GOD CREATED THE WORLD AND ADAM AND EVE ABOUT THAT TIME SAYS THE BIBLE AND MOST OTHER RELIGIONS AROUND THE WORLD, WHERE DID DINASOURS AND SO CALLED NEANDERTHAW MEN (CAVE MEN) AND THAT COME FROM IF THE BILBLE AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ARE RIGHT THEN THERE WOULDN'T BE DINASOURS OR SO CALLED CAVE MEN RIGHT? SO WHAT IS THE TRUTH DID GOD START BEFORE WE CAME AND THAT AND WAS THIS WORLD NOT PERFECT BEFORE ? ARE WE REALLY HIS FIRST BEINGS HE PUT DOWN HERE? PLEASE IM GOING CRAZY AND NEED HELP TO UNDERSTAND THIS MY FAITH IS IN QUESTION HERE. SERIOUS RESPONCES ONLY PLEASE!
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This is an interesting subject. First of all I do belive in God&Creationalism, but however Im not very religous.Before God created Adam and Eve there must have been life on Earth.\nPerhaps God chose the Earth to put Man on because it was a very viable place to live. In Genisis chapter one it is written "In the begining God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was VOID and WHITHOUT form" "Then the Spirit of the Lord moved apon the face of the deep... Its hard to say really, but in my opinion this is similar to the way science sugests that it all began, on a barren rocky world filled with an endless sea with which life could proliferate. There is evidence on the surface of the Earth that sugests that massive impacts from space have occured. Perhaps before the time of Man, the Earth was filled with Dinosaurs and 'quote' other prehistoric life and it was a great place for LIFE. Then one day for a reason known only to God, he chose to destroy the Earth with an asteroid so massive that it compleatly decimated everything, and left the planet, dark, void, and without proper form. The neanderthal men, in my opinion are evidence of somthing else mentioned in the Bible. In Genisis chapter six it says "the sons of God saw the beatiful women of the human race, and took any they wanted as there wives...in those days and even after GIANTS lived on the Earth" .The sons of God probly refers to angelic beings. Neanderthals were supposed to be much larger, and more robust then regular  humans of today. I think I have seen a few shows on the Discovery channle about human evolution, and acording to science, neanderthals, and humans most likely lived side by side. Then for reasons unknown, there was only MAN left as if the neanderthal died out. What about the great Mammoths, Sloths, Sabertoothed Cats, among other animals? I think that they, and the neanderthals were not included on NOAHS ARK. There is so much information to think about! Even so, there is still a lot of mystery. I do know one thing, all the PERFECT laws of the universe, from GRAVITY to MAGNATISIM, to PHYSICS just prove that that the universe was created intelligently, and beatifully might I ad. Sorry to type so much I have wandered about these issues too. Please remember that I was just speaking hypotheticaly on the what ifs. Hope I helped a little.
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Time was created (along with space, matter, and energy) when the universe was created.  Before the beginning of the universe, there is no such thing as time.  To say that "God was there from the beginning" can only mean that God was there since the beginning of this universe.  To ask what happened before the beginning of time makes no sense at all.  We cannot possibly comprehend what exists apart from this universe (other dimensions), because our minds were not built to do so.  To say that God "always" existed has no meaning to other dimensions, because "always" is specifically a time descriptor.\n\nI'm not giving this reason as a cop-out.  I'm only trying to suggest that maybe existence isn't what we think it is.  Maybe this question really has no meaning (or not the meaning you think it does), and maybe it's not even possible for us to understand the answer.  I'm not saying to stop looking, I'm only saying that there is that possibility.
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It all started waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back to biblical days\nBabel is mentioned in Genesis 10:10 as the home city of Nimrod.\n\n[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. [11] Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, [12] And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (KJV) \nAccording to Genesis 11:1-9, mankind, after the deluge, travelled from the mountain of the East, where the ark had rested, and settled in 'a plain in the land of Shinar' (or Sennar). Here, they attempted to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto Heaven, the Tower of Babel.\n\nThe Origin of Languages\nThe all-wise Creator, Jehovah God, has employed language in the heavenly angelic realm. (Job 1:6-12; 1 Corinthians 13:1) When he created humans, he implanted in them a vocabulary and the ability to expand it. There is no evidence of any primitive human language consisting of grunts and growls. On the contrary, consider what the Encyclopædia Britannica explains about Sumerian, the oldest known written language: "The Sumerian verb, with its . . .various prefixes, infixes, and suffixes, presents a very complicated picture."\n\n\nAt Babel, God confused the language\nof rebellious humans\n\nAbout the 20th century B.C.E., contrary to God's command to spread out and "fill the earth," humans made an effort to control all society at the Plains of Shinar, in Mesopotamia, and began building the religious Tower of Babel. Language diversity originated when God confused their common language, thwarting their dangerous and hurtful plans.—Genesis 1:28; 11:1-9.\n\nThe Bible record does not say that all languages descended from the original one. At Shinar, God introduced many new vocabularies and thought patterns, resulting in a variety of languages. Thus, efforts to trace a parent language from which all others developed have been in vain.\n \n\nLanguage is a divine gift. (Exodus 4:11) The fascinating process of change in language shows how flexible this gift is. We may also learn from language that no one group of people is superior to another, for there is no such thing as an inferior language. Just as with other divine gifts, language is equally available to all people, no matter what their culture or the place where they live. Since the very beginning, languages of all peoples have been complete enough to serve their purpose. Each one of them is worthy of respect, regardless of how many people use it.\n\nHistorical and Social Factors\nThe gregarious nature of mankind is reflected in language. Thus, when there is contact between cultures—a common occurrence—the languages of those cultures retain evidence of such contact for generations.\n\nFor instance, through its many words of Arabic origin, Spanish, considered a modified version of Latin, retains a record of the eighth-century Muslim conquest of Spanish territory. The influence of Greek, French, English, and other languages on Spanish can also be traced. Moreover, in the Spanish spoken in America, traces remain of the ancient inhabitants of the continent. For example, Spanish there contains many words from the Nahuatl language of Aztec Central America.\n\nJust as a mother tongue identifies individuals with a certain nation and even with a region, language usage can identify people with a group, such as a profession, a trade, cultural and sports groups, or even criminal organizations. The list is practically endless. Linguists call these special variations jargon or slang or sometimes even a dialect.\n\nHowever, when there are animosities between nations and ethnic or cultural groups, language ceases to be a bridge. It can become a wall that adds to the divisions between people.\n\nThe Future of Languages\nCommunication is a complex matter. On one hand, the modern tendency is toward breaking down linguistic walls, primarily on account of mas
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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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The bible states that God created man (humanity, all the races) on the 6th day. Male and female. He blessed them and told them to multiply and fill the earth. Then, on the 7th day, He rested. Later.... in what many Christians today call 8th day creation.... God planted a garden but, saw there was no man to till the earth so, He made Adam, the first farmer. God brought to Adam many animals and Adam named them. These were the domestic animals we use today on farms and as beasts of burden. Wild aimals had been previously created on day 5. \n\nWhen Cain killed Abel, Cain went to the land of Nod were he took a wife. He married a female who was a 6th day creation human. \n\nLater, Adam and Eve had many children. One child, Seth, was to be the ancestor of Noah, who was the ancestor of David. From this lineage came Mary, mother of God. The reason for the lineage breakdown (the begatting) is to let us all know Christ's (for want of a better word) pedigree.
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Good luck...\n\nCan a Christian believe in evolution?  I do.  I know that this world hasn't always been as we know it now.  I know that I as a homo sapien, evolved from something else.  God can create and destroy as he so chooses.\n\nWhy then are dinosaurs not in the Bible?\nWhy does the Bible not reference such catastrophic events that wiped them out?\n\nIn my opinion, because it isn't something we necessarily need concern ourselves with.  The fact that GIANT lizards once walked this earth is pretty darned fascinating.  Can we learn anything from them?  Unless we want to turn ourselves into giant lizards I think not.\n\nWhat we need to concern ourselves with is the history as it is written in the Bible.  The Bible is not only a religious tool, but also one that can be studied for it's historical content and story.  \n\nDo I believe the stories? YES!  Do I believe that everything happened exactly as it is written? YES!  \n\nI believe the world was created in seven days.  But what is our definition of days compared to Godly days.  \n\nThat we will not know until we can ask our creator.  (But frankly, by the time I die and go to heaven, Days will hardly matter to me anymore.)
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I rather like the fall from the sky theory you presented.  And, interestingly enough, some Indigenous American folklore says we DID indeed come from the sky.\n\nAs far as the Bible goes, it dissuades one from the monkey/black hypocrisy.  No where does it say man of any color came from another animal.  So, those wonderfully hateful racist who both claim Christianity and that black man came from an ape are not only sadly misinformed, they are defiling their own religion. \n\nIn the Bible it says Adam was created from dust (Genesis 2:7), so how about if it was a variety of colors of earth? [see link 2] (Okay, I get into a lot of trouble with theologians when I say that, but I'm not kidding! LOL)\n\nActually, Biblically, it's explained in Genesis 10.  God divided the earth amongst Noah's sons.  They were different colors because either Adam had all colors of soil in his make-up or ----- let us assume at this time it was from environmental causes until some greater Biblical scholar corrects me with the proper verses to indicate written proof.
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Hun the bible is full of contradictions and pretty much the entire bible is full of lies....Im not trying to take away your beliefs but you really need to educate yourself on the truth. Remember.....people of all different religions have faith just like you do...but are they right? are you right? Who can tell....if you want to talk more just feel free to email me. And please....don't believe everything you read in the bible...remember its just a book. Do you believe in Allah? or Zeus? or buddah? NO? there are books about them too.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
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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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God "creates" all humans in that he is the designer of the universe and if you read Genesis 1 (as I'm guessing you have) then you'll find that God created Adam from the dust of the ground.  The trinity (though something I would agree with in principal) is not something directly mentioned in the Bible, but it illustrates that God is 3 in 1 (The Father, Son and Holy Spirit/Ghost) as he exists as a Heavenly Father, Jesus (who walked the earth in human form and who was fully God AND fully man - difficult concept for many to grasp and I'm not saying I have a definitive answer either!) and the Holy Spirit/Ghost - the form in which He lives within our (that is born-again Christian's) lives.  I believe that Adam's "inherant" intelligence was like ours is now though he did not have the advantage of "evolutions of thought" that have occured over the (12,000?) years that the earth has existed.  Also, Jesus was born of a virgin (i.e. one who had not had sex) through the power of God the Father, thus although he had an earthly mother and father (Mary and Joseph), he was not conceived as a child as you or I were.\n\nTo summarize, Adam was created from the dust of the ground as a "young?" man, not conceived of any parents but Jesus was conveived of the Spirit, that is God, and born of Mary, a virgin, as a babe.  What we need to remember is that God's foolishness is higher than man's or woman's intelligence and wisdom.  Don't expect to know all the answers to the universe...  That's God's job!
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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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The Bible was written by ancient people who also believed  that the Earth was flat. They lacked the intelligence to comprehend the things that they wrote about and they made  mistakes.  If 21st century man witnessed the things that they saw we would not call it God. If you were alive then and had a cigarette lighter and flicked it, everyone would call you God because you could make fire come from your hands. If we all came from Adam & Eve, where did Chinese, Hispanic, or Aborigines people come from?  There are over 1 million different species of insects, how did Noah get to the Amazon Rain Forest to gather some of them? I'm not 100% certain that we came from apes but the World is loaded with religion disagreement problems because we have been forced to accept a God concept from people who had no idea as to what was going on.
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This is a good question...it's actually something I've thought about before. It seems snobbish to believe that we are the only living things in the infinite universe, yet the Bible does not describe creation of anything but the Earth and its beings. \n\n"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 \n\nThis verse states that the heavens were also created by God. Although the heavens are mentioned, the Bible may not go into detail about them for the simple reason that they were unknown at that time. For all we know, God could have created an identical planet to ours that we know nothing about. But in the past and present, it has been impossible to find out about anything much beyond our solar system.\n\nAs for the question of 6,000 years ago...well, it is pretty much a proven fact that time was measured differently when the Bible was written. People were recorded to live into their nine hundreds. So some of the "heavens" could have been created much before the earth and simply recorded as a day.\n\nThis is my theory...I hope I helped.
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I am sure that God created the universe in only 6 "days". The question is, how long were these days? One day at that point in time could actually have spanned millions of our years. This would explain dinosaurs and evolution and a few other questions. I don't think Lucifer was banned to Hell until after Humans were made and I think he was a human who died and went to Heaven and then was bannished to Hell. He could of even walked with some of your ancestors. (Creepy, huh!)
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Before the world began, God saved us and called us with a holy calling (Eph.4:1 below), not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace (2 Tim.1:9, Jn.17:5, Eph.3:9, Eph.1:4 below).\n\nI believe God has purposed and given to us in Christ Jesus, before the world began, a holy calling, the works each of us is to accomplish who live by faith (Eph.2:10, Jm.2:21-26 below). \n\n\nEph.4:1I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,    \n\n2 Tim.1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling (Eph.4:1 above), not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN (Jn.17:5 below),\n\nJn.17:5 And now, 0 Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee BEFORE THE WORLD WAS (2 Tim.1:9 above).\n\nEph.3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship (Eph.2:14-19, Gal.3:28) of the mystery WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN God (Eph.1:4 below), who created all things by Jesus Christ.\n\nEph.1:4 According as he (Christ) hath chosen us in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Eph.3:9 above, Jn.17:5 above) that we should be holy and without blame (Col.1:22 below) before him in love.\n\nEph.2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.\n\nJm.2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?\n\nJm.2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?\n\nJm.2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.\n\nJm.2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.\n\nJm.2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out another way?\n\nJm.2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.\n\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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I am no Bible expert but here goes....\n\nThey say that Adam and Eve were the first humans created, no where does it say they where the only ones created, think about that, if that were so would we all not be the offsping of incest?\n\nAs the people spread accross the world the people adapted and evolved over thousands of years to deal with their environments, including darker skin pigmentations to protect themselves from the sun.