Question Evolution- Part 2
Question Evolution part 2 (For part 1)ISSUE: DID DINOSAURS EXIST MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE HUMANS?
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE: NO.
1. Not millions and millions of years ago.
2. But Dinosaurs maybe mentioned in the bible.
1. Not millions and millions of years ago
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter19.pdf
- There are problems with dating dinosaur bones to 65 millions years (to be discussed in a later blog entry)
- According to the bible land animals and man were created on day 6 of Creation.
- Sin brought death into the world, so nothing could have died before Adam sinned (therefore no bones, fossils).
- A global flood could have wiped out animals that were not on the ark, decedents of dinosaurs were on the ark
- How and why they are no longer among us isn't documented, but there are theories
http://creation.com/the-extinction-of-the-dinosaurs
2. Dinosaurs maybe mentioned in the bible.
There are 3 names of animals we see in the bible that could have been dinosaurs (of course the word dinosaur wasn't invented at the time of the old testament).
http://clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml
| “Dinosaur” Names, Then and Now | |||
| Name and date first written in the Bible | Scientific Name (best estimate) and date the name appeared | ||
| tanniyn (dragon) | before 1400 BC | dinosaur | 1841 AD |
| behemoth | before 1400 BC | brachiosaurus | 1903 AD |
| Leviathan | before 1400 BC | kronosaurus | 1901 AD |
Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24
- It “eats grass like an ox.”
- It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
- Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.” - “He is the first of the ways of God.”
- “He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
Leviathan 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.
- “No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
- “Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
- Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
- Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
MY THOUGHTS
- the bible is not just a spiritual book. It's also a history book.
- Christians don't have to be afraid of claims that dinosaurs existed.
- We can question whether evidence of fossils being million or even billions of years old is accurate.
- We can find out more so that we can always be ready to explain the faith we have.
60min video on dinosaurs
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交託我憂愁（約書亞）
guitar chords http://frogg.freeshell.org/wshp/chords/Trading_My_Sorrows.php
G C Em DI'm trading my sorrow 我交託我的憂愁
G C Em DI'm trading my shame 我交託我羞辱
G C EmI'm laying them down 完全交託
D G C Em D
for the joy of the Lord 祢喜樂充滿我
G C Em D
I'm trading my sickness 我交託我的疾病
G C Em DI'm trading my pain 我交託我痛苦
G C Em
I'm laying them down 完全交託
D G C Em D
for the joy of the Lord 祢喜樂充滿我
G C Em D And we say yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes, Lord
G C Em D Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes, Lord G C Em D G C Em D Yes Lord, yes Lord, yes, yes, Lord. Amen
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I'm pressed but not crushed 雖受敵 不被困住
Em D persecuted not abandoned 遭逼迫 卻不被丟棄 G C Em D Struck down but not destroyed 打倒 不至死亡 G C I'm blessed beyond the curse 在咒詛的背後 Em D for His promise will endure 有祂應許的祝福 G C Em D And His joy's gonna be my strength 祂喜樂是我力量
