Subject: Explain million year old dinosaurs. |
Bible Note: I agree!! I cannot accept that man and dinosaurs lived together I think this is just "itchy ears" syndrome. The behemoth is a "water ox" of some description I personally feel. Many people then go on to say, yes but a hippo doesn't breath fire!! As in Job 41:19-21 failing to notice that the author is no longer talking about the behemoth of Job 40 but the leviathan of Job 41:1. Hence they are two different beasties being described. I also agree with someone else here who says that the leviathan described is satan being referred to in allegory, as is the description of the behemoth's tail allegorical in the sense perhaps of something swaying in the wind like a tree. I have heard some people going so far as to say that T-Rex was vegetarian. Why then did it have big long razor sharp teeth when these are absent in non-carniverous creatures? My view is, Gen 1:1 happened first. This is the time before time. this is even before the first day. This is an earth where darkness rules. The first day is where GOD impacts the earth with HIS presence; The first day is the consequence of GOD creating night and day. all that existed before was void, dark empty, without even time. This can account for a time without time. A place where time is not measured and where darkness(misery, sorrow and despair) existed. This could account for the lost "millions of years" where time is not measured; looking back on it with a new yardstick which is time could reveal it to be millions of our years. At the time it simply all that was. We then have the SPIRIT of GOD impacting this place and time is created; since the fall it has been nearly 6000 years but before then time was not measured but any number of events could have occured. That the heavens were made also in Gen 1:1 shows how angels could have existed; if heaven, the place where YHVH resides the heavens from Gen 1:2 and onward could then be referring simply to the sky, the stars and etc. which were made on the second and fourth day. But the thrust of what I am saying is that this is how science and creation can be reconciled; the period of millions of years is Gen 1:1, gen 1:3 time starts with the first day and all that is good, the garden of eden, proceeds from the SPIRIT of GOD impacting the earth. At the end of the day however it is best to let all men be liars and GOD just be GOD; I don't know what interest some people have in promoting dinosaurs in the bible but it is not winning any souls!! I would rather die than teach my children that there are dinosaurs in the bible!!! |