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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: horsecd Ordered by Date |
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1 | Dinosaurs (Life before Adam and Eve) | Genesis | horsecd | 109525 | ||
It's amazing what people will do to twist the clear meaning (of the Hebrew words) of the Bible in order to support man-based ideas. The person who gave you this other theory evidently views man's ideas (often wrong due to lack of complete information) as more accurate than God's written word (who was there and promises throughout the Bible that the Bible is true and will remain so). First, the belief in long ages (i.e. the universe began billions of years ago) is based on a faulty interpretation of data. It is based on radiometric dating "dates," which are based on faulty assumptions. (Note: dinosaur bones are dated by this faulty method.) More than 90 percent of _scientific_ dating methods give a MAXIMUM age for the universe in the millions and some of those methods further restrict the age down less than 10,000 years. On a purely scientific basis, a young universe is just as valid (actually, more so) than a billions-of-years-old universe. The Dinosaur Explanation based on the Bible and supported by science is: God created sea and air dinosaurs on literal day 5 (i.e. 96-120 hours away from the beginning of time). Land dinosaurs were created on literal day 6. (Note: The word in Gen 1:28 is actually "fill" with no connotation of "filling again." KJV uses "replenish," though, since replenish used to include "filling for the first time.") Young (therefore smaller) dinosaurs were included on Noah's Ark. The dinosaur bones we see today were the dinosaurs killed and buried in the world-wide Flood. After the Flood, the climate had changed and most to all dinosaurs have gone extinct (slowly, like animals go extinct in modern times) since the Flood. For a more complete answer, I'd suggest going to www.answersingenesis.org and viewing the FAQ section on dinosaurs. |
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2 | Where did Cain's wife come from? | Gen 5:4 | horsecd | 96270 | ||
Genesis 5:3-4 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Note, Adam and Eve "had other sons and daughters." It is never said that Abel is the second born and that Seth is the third born, but simply that Cain was older than Abel, and Seth was born around the time of Abel's death. So, quite simply, Cain married a sister of his. She went into exile with him, and they had children while in exile. Since mutations hadn't corrupted the genetic code yet, there was no reason why they couldn't marry. |
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3 | Are we all descendants of Adam and Eve? | Genesis | horsecd | 85167 | ||
Point One: Of the methods that have been used to estimate the age of the universe, 90 percent point to an age far less than billions of years. For details, search the AnswersInGenesis.org website. Point Two: Luke 3:23-38 traces Jesus' geneology back to Adam. Luke takes Adam to be a real human and Genesis as history, not a fictional 'good moral' story. The only reason to doubt that all of Genesis is real, literal history is because some people state that the fossil record indicates vast ages of evolution instead of evidence for the Flood in Noah's time. But think about it, the fossil record shows death, violence, disease, carnivorous behavior, and thorns. As a compromise, some people say that this all came before the end of day 6 of creation, but that means God called death and suffering 'very good!' Also, the Bible teaches that sin caused death for man and animal alike. Death before sin brings the salvation message into doubt. Genesis 2:17 states that physical death was the punishment for sin. 1 Corinthians 15:26 says, "The last enemy to be destroyed is death." Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death..." Adam sinned and the punishment was death, so Jesus took that punishment (death) for sin to free us. However, if death came before sin and was not the punishment for sin, Jesus' death on the cross was meaningless and saved no one. Genesis is the very foundation of the Gospel message and contains the first promises for a Savior. Caring that it is a historical and scientifically accurate book is not 'missing the point' or a side issue to the Gospel. Also, Genesis is not 'better as metaphorical than as historical.' Would Americans be better off if the Revolutionary War was metaphorical and not historical? After all, it's a rousing tale which we can get a lot of meaning out of! Point Thee: A simple reading of the Bible shows that the writers believed in a young universe, that the Bible came from God, and that God cannot lie. The only reason we doubt this is because some humans state that it is wrong. The question now becomes, "who's word do you believe?" Do you believe God, who was there at creation, who knows everything, who cannot lie, and who's Word is absolutely reliable? Or do you believe man, who didn't see the origin of the universe, who doesn't know everything, who's theories frequently change, who rarely agrees on anything, who is sinful, who will lie if it serves his purpose (or even unintentionally), who's methods are fallible, and who may have wrong assumptions? The answer should be obvious... |
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