Were dinosaurs created by Satan?
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Christians suppose themselves to be so humble, but they are confident to tell you exactly what the second most powerful supernatural being, who wants to trick us, wouldn't do.  You all ought to say "I don't know."  \n\nI think the existance of dinosaurs definitely threatens the veracity of Genesis, and the supposed 6000 year age of Earth.
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What is the creationist response to feathered dinosaurs?\n\nThey stick their head in the sand and repeat over and over, "I believe the Bible, I believe the Babble."
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God created all things, yes including Satan. He made everything perfect and beautiful. Because He wanted to love and be loved He gave all His creation free will. A beautiful angel Lucifer began to feel pride. He thought that he should be equal to God. Because of this sin that had entered him he was ejected from God's presence and cast onto the earth, he became Satan. Jim
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The book of Job suggests that Satan was created by God. He was the greatest of the Angels, and his pride caused him to rebel against God (very similar to the Adam and Eve Story).\nEvil is the result of the brokeness of creation. When God created he looked and it was good. The consequences of human rebellion against God lead to suffering and death.\n\nSo you would be right to thing that God created all things but not that he created evil. The next question however is if God knew that evil would happen why did he still create?
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Dinosaurs are never mentioned explicitly in the Bible, if at all. I have already seen you have been pointed to Job for Leviathan and Behemoth. That's the only potential mention in the Bible of dinosaurs.\n\nI see the creation story at the beginning of Genesis as a very quick overview - not a scientific textbook on how God made the world, but more of an overview to say "God made the universe, then he made man, then man screwed up and let's pick up with these people here." So, to me, the beginning stories - the creation and fall - are there as a quick introduction that sets the tone and the themes for, really, the entire rest of the Bible.
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God did not create evil. Satan was one of Gods angels, but he started to envy the things of God. Satan wanted to be God. \nGod did not create anything wicked.\nDeuteronomy 32:4- The Rock, perfect is his activity, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice, righteous and upright he is.\nPsalms 5:4- For you are not a God taking delight in wickedness; No one bad may reside for any time with you.\nSatan is the ruler of the world.\nJohn 14:30- I shall not speak much with you anymore , for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me.\nJob is a great book to read about Satan roving on the earth. \nGod is not to blame for all the wickedness in the world. He gave us a perfect start, but some people chose to ignore Gods requirements.\nEcclesiates 7:29- See! This only I have found, that the true God made mankind upright, but they themselves have sought out many plans.
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A. Could we have real dinosaurs somewhere?\nAs ttocsewol pointed out, the biggest problem of cryptozoology is that there is not enough space to hide thousands of dinosaurs. If there are fewer, the species is quite vulnerable to extinction.\nOne exception: there is enough space in the ocean. We have just recently discovered some pretty large shark species. However, this means that the dinosaur in question has to be giving birth rather than laying eggs, much like Ichtyosaurus dis. However, marine reptiles of Mesosoic era (Plesiosaurs, Mesozaurs, Ichtyosaurs and so on) are not dinosaurs in strict sense of the word, but are distantly replated to them.\n\nB. Living descendants and relatives of dinosaurs.\nTurtles, crocodiles, lizards and other surviving reptiles are also quite removed relatives of dinosaurs. Birds, however, are direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs.\nBe careful around that chicken.
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Yes, that's definitely why dinosaurs were so big -- another moon pulling on them! Why haven't all these smart scientists thought of such an obvious answer? And I'll bet that second moon crashed into the earth and killed all the dinosaurs too.
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isn't it obvious? the triceratops of course!\n\nhere's a site to prove it...
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They're mentioned in the Bible I think in the way that a primitive society would write about dinosaurs. As giant beast and dragons and so forth.\n\nIf you listen to most Christians rhetoric about the dinosaurs, you'll realize they cannot reconcile archaeological findings with their own beliefs. Many of them deny the existence of dinosaurs all together. Some say they're not as old as science has claimed. Some even say they lived on other planets and when G*d used the material to make the earth he took the bones with it.\n\nThe fact of the matter is we are living with people who use an outdated reference guide for life. They cannot admit that they've been had. The earth is not 6000 years old. The earth is not 10,000 years old. Dinosaurs DID exist. And we evolved from a species similar to ourselves.\n\nI won't claim G*D did not create the dinosaurs....as I don't know. \nAnd I won't claim science is perfect....we all know it's not.\nBut when you take the overwhelming preponderance of evidence and throw it all out the window because of a book your mommy told you was true.....well, that's just stupid.
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As much as I want to believe my religion, I feel that the evolution theory is correct . If the bible was written incorrectly or abridged by the writer of genesis to not include dinosaurs, and the timeframe infered between Adam and Eve and the creation of the Earth were different, then it would be possible that both theories are correct.
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Dinosaur is a word that was created after the King James Version of the Bible...There are references to dragons in Job and Isiah and a few other places.  Which should not be that big of a surprise because even in the Chinese calender there is a dragon. Which you can rule as mythology or whatever....but its not random to just throw a dragon in there with a rat, pig, and other common animals.
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Yes, the story of the dinosaurs is told by the Life Carriers, the higher beings intrusted with life development on new spheres.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html\n\nIn our universe the administration of these affairs is overseen by Christ, the Creator Son of God who founded our universe. If you read the New Testament carefully, you will see that Christ created our universe: Hebrews Ch 1, vs 2-3, and other places. Gabriel, the highest and first created being in our universe, The Bright Morning Star, is the Chief Executive and right hand to Christ.  He is assisted by the Melchizedeks, one of whom taught Abraham:  Hebrews, Chapter 7 (Machiventa Melchizedek, no earthly parents).\n\nMortals are not created perfect, rather they are created with the capacity to evolve to perfection.  \n\nBoth planets and universes can evolve to ages of Light and Life, when few people die from crime, war, disasters, and aging.  Rather, most are translated to the next higher sphere for which they have qualified.\n\nAt the Center of the Total Reality there is one pattern universe containing one billion perfect and diverse worlds.\n\nBut the surrounding superuniverses (seven of them) are intended to evolve to perfection.  Each superuniverse is administered by three Ancients of Days, the oldest beings of historical record with respect to the time and space creations.  They are not ascendant mortals, rather were here long before any of the lowest planets were started.  \n\nThe Ancients of Days are of a type called Supreme Trinity Origin beings, flawless, and having authority with respect to the superuniverse like the Supreme Court has with respect to the USA.  However, they act as administrators more than judges, and have a huge staff to assist the execution of superuniverse affairs.  Periodic planetary judgment falls under their purview, thus one is mentioned in the Book of Daniel.\n\nEach superuniverse encompasses 100,000 local universes, each founded by a Creator Son of God, like unto Christ in Divine Endowments.\n\nI was about to write more, but the Spirit said, I will test my children, to see if they are diligent.\n\nTherefore I can only give a url for those humble enough to seek further light.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html
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well actually I've been pondering this for a while. God say's He created them. I dont think they were 'pets'. the fossil soil beneath us is four miles thick all around the earth. that translates into one hell of a lot of dinosaurs. then they died . God begins creating again calling forth 'every living creature'. life begins to grow and mulitply on its own without God's help. so it is my feeling that the dinosaurs served one absolute and essential purpose. God created them specifically to be used as fertilizer for the earth. to provide fossil fuel. the earth would not be in existence today if not for the dinosaurs. life as we know it would not be the same. they were used to prepare the earth for human habitation.
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My grandmother, who is hardcore Southern Baptist, says the dinosaurs did not exist ever, that they were just bones planted by someone to support a fantasy. She also doesn't believe space exists.... I don't ask her questions anymore.
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This is a hard question though it does not say specficly that dinosaurs was created in the Bible, God did give Adam the authority to name every living creature..\n\n\n\nThe Bible refers to many the common animals we know today. The list includes lions, wolves, bears, sheep, cattle and dogs along with various kinds of birds, rodents, reptiles, and insects. What is interesting is that this extensive list includes three animals that we no longer recognize. These three are (in the original Hebrew language) tanniyn, b@hemowth (yes, it’s spelled correctly—at least as close as we can get in Roman characters), and livyathan.\n\n\nAlthough we alter the spelling of behemoth and Leviathan slightly, we still use those same words in bibles today. However, tanniyn is always translated into another word when we write it in English. Tanniyn occurs 28 times in the Bible and is normally translated “dragon.” It is also translated “serpent,” “sea monster,” “dinosaur,” “great creature,” and “reptile.” Behemoth and Leviathan are relatively specific creatures, perhaps each was a single kind of animal. Tanniyn is a more general term, and it can be thought of as the original version of the word “dinosaur.” The word “dinosaur” was originally coined in 1841, more than three thousand years after the Bible first referred to “Tanniyn.”\n\n\nBehemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24\n\n\nIt “eats grass like an ox.” \nIt “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”) \nIts “bones are like beams of bronze,\nHis ribs like bars of iron.” \n“He is the first of the ways of God.” \n“He lies under the lotus trees,\nIn a covert of reeds and marsh.” \nSome bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”\n\nWe would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”\n\n\nLeviathan has the following attributes according to Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—just enough to make the point.\n\n\n“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.” \n“Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?” \n“His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.” \n“His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.” \n“Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.” \n“On earth there is nothing like him, which is
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You are nuts!. . .Because the dinosaurs died doesn't mean God failed. . .it means the dinos are in Heaven!  (Except the ones who didn't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and the ones who were gay dinosaurs, or voted Democrat.)