Why did god put dinosaurs on earth and what was the point of that era of earth?

[Eternally Grateful]

How closely did you investigate these claims? No very, if the cursory claims I examined are anything to go off....not one single photograph has human footprints in the same place or time as the dinosaurs. The original claims came out to Russia which was under atheistic Communist rule at the time, so what agenda do you suppose they were promoting?

All the pics on Wiki were of dinosaurs and humans.....but not in the same photo. The original place of reporting has apparently never been photographed according to the sources I looked at.

I have seen them. I don’t just make things up

Care to provide any that are conclusive?

Can you call God a liar and get away with it? There were no dinosaurs on the ark for obvious reasons I think....

God said he made all animals on the same day. This would include dinosaurs. Adam most likely named them.

 

[amigo de christo]

Actually if you know how footprint fossils are formed you would know it definitely proves this

Before during or after the flood. It shows they lived together

Oh there have been some big ol creatures , job descibes some .

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Oh there have been some big ol creatures , job descibes some .

oh yes. The behemoth Job describes as being so large that only God himself could go against him

 

[amigo de christo]

oh yes. The behemoth Job describes as being so large that only God himself could go against him

march onwards in the trenches .

 

[Aunty Jane]

I have seen them. I don’t just make things up

I never suggested that you did...I asked if you had conclusive evidence.....can you please provide it, as I could not find any.

God said he made all animals on the same day. This would include dinosaurs. Adam most likely named them.

The “days” in Genesis were not 24 hour periods.....but undetermined lengths of time as God brought creation into being in carefully planned increments. Once all the activity planned for each period was accomplished, God expressed his satisfaction with the result.

Geologists know that the earth itself is very ancient, but archeologists know that our of all the creatures, man is the latecomer.
The Bible agrees with science.....just not all of its theories.

For Jews, the day began at sundown and continued to sundown the following day.....the creative days in Genesis began at sunset but ended in the morning......not 24 hours but simply the beginning and end of each creative epoch. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean more than a 24 hour period. We use the expression ourselves when we say...”in my grandfather’s day”....not meaning a 24 day, but a period of time.

We also use the expression ...”the dawn of a new era” which would also apply in Genesis.

 

[Eternally Grateful]

I never suggested that you did...I asked if you had conclusive evidence.....can you please provide it, as I could not find any.

Did you look?

The “days” in Genesis were not 24 hour periods.....but undetermined lengths of time

This is not true. So much evidence destroys this theory

1 evening and morning
2. 7th day which became sabbath
3 you have plants on earth for a long period of time with no sun

I can go on and on

God brought creation into being in carefully planned increments. Once all the activity planned for each period was accomplished, God expressed his satisfaction with the result.

God is all powerful he speaks and it happens ihe does not need to wait a few million years for a process to take place

Geologists know that the earth itself is very ancient, but archeologists know that our of all the creatures, man is the latecomer.
The Bible agrees with science.....just not all of its theories.

No geology does not know how old the earth is. They guess by what they see.

For Jews, the day began at sundown and continued to sundown the following day.....the creative days in Genesis began at sunset but ended in the morning......not 24 hours

lol ok whatever

but simply the beginning and end of each creative epoch. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean more than a 24 hour period. We use the expression ourselves when we say...”in my grandfather’s day”....not meaning a 24 day, but a period of time.

It can mean age it does not mean it does mean age

We also use the expression ...”the dawn of a new era” which would also apply in Genesis.

Again it can does not mean it does

I believe in n the power of god. He created earth for man. Thus he created it in an aged state ready to be used when man appears

 

[VictoryinJesus]

Why would god have just put dinosaurs on earth ? So there was just random dinosaurs roaming the earth for thousands of years and then a meteor hit earth and they all went extinct?? What was the point in that? I want to believe that god is real but, there’s so many things that doesn’t make sense to me

You ask a great question in my opinion. I read your question the other day and have been thinking about it ever since. This morning I talked to my husband about it and through us talking about it, it helped. Because I also wondered “yea, what was the point of the dinosaurs?” This is just my opinion for you to consider. The dinosaurs still reveal a difference in natures between animal and God. my husband brought up our kids watching cartoons about dinosaurs. It caused me to remember there were land ones, water and (flying)in the air. Maybe not significant but there was also meat eaters and vegetation eaters. Same as the animal kingdom today. I get others may not agree concerning “there were giants in those days” but I still think it refers to natures. Maybe there were physical giants but to me the point is bigger than physicality. It’s revealing strong and weak. Fear of “we will be eaten alive” as when God told them to go into the land and they said “there are giants”. Numbers 13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature…Tyrants! There are tyrants in the land!

You said you doubt God. To me it all displays God’s nature and mens animalistic nature. Like the Pharisees and religious leaders…they could be called giants in the land regarding their puffed up beliefs and high lifted up stature trying to keep others out. My husband built birdhouses for us. I remember watching a momma bird tending to her little ones until a snake crawled in, cornered her and ate the momma bird and her little ones. It all revealed something, all having purpose I think. I may not like it and want to look away, but it’s still there. A truth about what we do to one another.; consuming one another. Same with the dinosaurs. It still reveals something …even watching Jurassic Park there is a brutality revealed when one weaker is consumed by those overcoming it and consuming it. Does this not display or reveal a real truth about this world? To me it keeps speaking the same thing over and over revealing God’s Nature. And how we should not be …is (revealed)in the details even regarding the dinosaurs.

 

[Aunty Jane]

Did you look?

I did. Couldn’t find a single picture of dinosaur footprints with human footprints beside them…..there were lots of pics, but none with what you suggest, or what was reported back in the last century. It stated that there were no photographs of that finding….only reports of it coming out of Communist Russia.

This is not true. So much evidence destroys this theory

Really?…have you examined this evidence for yourself?

1 evening and morning

I explained this one….but received an “ok whatever”….so you cannot address this often overlooked point.
Does your day start in the evening and end in the morning? Nocturnal animals may think so….

2. 7th day which became sabbath

Does it say that the Sabbath was observed because God rested on the Sabbath?
Have you read about the Sabbath as God’s rest day continuing well past the time of those called to observe it. Only Jews were given a Sabbath law…..Christian gentiles were under no obligation to observe it.
Some of the Jewish nation wanted to impose their laws on the gentile believers, and kept the law that Jesus had “fulfilled” and “taken out of the way”. (Exodus 31:16-17; Gal 4:10-11; Rom 10:4; Rom 7:6; Col 2:13-14)

3 you have plants on earth for a long period of time with no sun

I’m afraid you are mistaken…..If you refer to Gen 1:1, all the Universe was brought into existence as one almighty act of creation “In the beginning”…..all the planets, stars and galaxies God made to exist at once……called mockingly by scientists, “the Big Bang”….They know that the earth itself is very ancient being part of that original creation. Yet there is no timeline mentioned for how long it was between that statement in verse 1 and the following verses….it could well have been billions of years. God took time to prepare our unique little planet for habitation. In planned increments he created what was needed in advance.
What is the one thing all living creation on earth needs to exist? LIGHT….which was the first thing God provided. (Gen 1:3-5) On the 3rd day dry land is made to rise up out of the watery deep…and vegetation is created as food for living creatures along with trees for oxygen as well as fruit for them to eat.
The 4th day mentions “luminaries”….but they are already in existence as part of the Big Bang…..so even though there was light from these luminaries, enough for photosynthesis, cloud layers prevented them from being visible from the earth’s surface. How do we know this? It tells us in Job 38:8-11…

8“And who barricaded the sea behind doors
When it burst out from the womb,
9 When I clothed it with clouds
And wrapped* it in thick gloom,
10 When I established my limit for it
And put its bars and doors in place,
11 And I said, ‘You may come this far, and no farther;
Here is where your proud waves will stop’?”

So scripture answers scripture, if you know where to look. God made the existing luminaries visible from the human standpoint by removing the cloud layers.

I can go on and on

Yes I know…but on and on with what? Can you not see how much you have failed to actually take in any knowledge about the creation account at all, assuming that the excuses provided by others suited what you choose to believe…..I am an investigator…..I bother to do my own research.

God is all powerful he speaks and it happens ihe does not need to wait a few million years for a process to take place

God is a Creator….what he does is planned meticulously and executed perfectly…he is not a magician.

No geology does not know how old the earth is. They guess by what they see.

They do not know precisely how old the Universe is, but they know it’s not 6000 years old.
Do you know much about uranium, which is what powers nuclear electricity….(and weapons)?

Science knows that some elements of the earth are unstable, that is, they are radioactive. Uranium keeps giving off radioactive particles until it eventually turns into lead. They know that the Universe hasn’t always existed or there would be no radioactive elements left today. The radioactivity would have all ‘run out’ long ago. But the study of geology and anthropology reveal that the earth is not merely 6000 years old….and nothing in Genesis fights with that. Nothing in the Scriptures says that the creative days were merely 24 hours long……the evidence against a young earth is overwhelming.
True science (as opposed to theoretical science) confirms God‘s creation.

I believe in n the power of god. He created earth for man. Thus he created it in an aged state ready to be used when man appears

I too believe in the power of God…he created the earth to be taken care of by beings who were endowed with his qualities. They were instructed to “fill the earth” with their children and having the garden of Eden as a blueprint, they would eventually transform the whole earth into a beautiful paradise. There was no mention of heaven or hell to Adam…..if he disobeyed his God….he would simply die and return to the dust out of which he was made. (Gen 3:19)

Look what a mess satan has made of that simple scenario….

 

[Eternally Grateful]

I did. Couldn’t find a single picture of dinosaur footprints with human footprints beside them…..there were lots of pics, but none with what you suggest, or what was reported back in the last century. It stated that there were no photographs of that finding….only reports of it coming out of Communist Russia.

Thats prety amazing considering the fact I googled it and got quite a few pictures..

Really?…have you examined this evidence for yourself?

Been doing a deep study for about 10 years now. since I started to question my view due to the evidence I saw

I explained this one….but received an “ok whatever”….so you cannot address this often overlooked point.
Does your day start in the evening and end in the morning? Nocturnal animals may think so….

If this was my only evidence. I may agree. but its not..

Does it say that the Sabbath was observed because God rested on the Sabbath?

God said in 6 days he worked. on the s7th day he rested. and he said in the like manner. on 6 days we shall work. on the seventh day we will rest.

A direct corrolation

Have you read about the Sabbath as God’s rest day continuing well past the time of those called to observe it. Only Jews were given a Sabbath law…..Christian gentiles were under no obligation to observe it.
Some of the Jewish nation wanted to impose their laws on the gentile believers, and kept the law that Jesus had “fulfilled” and “taken out of the way”. (Exodus 31:16-17; Gal 4:10-11; Rom 10:4; Rom 7:6; Col 2:13-14)

I’m afraid you are mistaken…..If you refer to Gen 1:1, all the Universe was brought into existence as one almighty act of creation “In the beginning”…..all the planets, stars and galaxies God made to exist at once……called mockingly by scientists, “the Big Bang”….They know that the earth itself is very ancient being part of that original creation. Yet there is no timeline mentioned for how long it was between that statement in verse 1 and the following verses….it could well have been billions of years. God took time to prepare our unique little planet for habitation. In planned increments he created what was needed in advance.
What is the one thing all living creation on earth needs to exist? LIGHT….which was the first thing God provided. (Gen 1:3-5) On the 3rd day dry land is made to rise up out of the watery deep…and vegetation is created as food for living creatures along with trees for oxygen as well as fruit for them to eat.
The 4th day mentions “luminaries”….but they are already in existence as part of the Big Bang…..so even though there was light from these luminaries, enough for photosynthesis, cloud layers prevented them from being visible from the earth’s surface. How do we know this? It tells us in Job 38:8-11…

8“And who barricaded the sea behind doors
When it burst out from the womb,
9 When I clothed it with clouds
And wrapped* it in thick gloom,
10 When I established my limit for it
And put its bars and doors in place,
11 And I said, ‘You may come this far, and no farther;
Here is where your proud waves will stop’?”

So scripture answers scripture, if you know where to look. God made the existing luminaries visible from the human standpoint by removing the cloud layers.

Yes I know…but on and on with what? Can you not see how much you have failed to actually take in any knowledge about the creation account at all, assuming that the excuses provided by others suited what you choose to believe…..I am an investigator…..I bother to do my own research.

God is a Creator….what he does is planned meticulously and executed perfectly…he is not a magician.

They do not know precisely how old the Universe is, but they know it’s not 6000 years old.
Do you know much about uranium, which is what powers nuclear electricity….(and weapons)?

Science knows that some elements of the earth are unstable, that is, they are radioactive. Uranium keeps giving off radioactive particles until it eventually turns into lead. They know that the Universe hasn’t always existed or there would be no radioactive elements left today. The radioactivity would have all ‘run out’ long ago. But the study of geology and anthropology reveal that the earth is not merely 6000 years old….and nothing in Genesis fights with that. Nothing in the Scriptures says that the creative days were merely 24 hours long……the evidence against a young earth is overwhelming.
True science (as opposed to theoretical science) confirms God‘s creation.

I too believe in the power of God…he created the earth to be taken care of by beings who were endowed with his qualities. They were instructed to “fill the earth” with their children and having the garden of Eden as a blueprint, they would eventually transform the whole earth into a beautiful paradise. There was no mention of heaven or hell to Adam…..if he disobeyed his God….he would simply die and return to the dust out of which he was made. (Gen 3:19)

Look what a mess satan has made of that simple scenario….

lol.. Ok.

So you have death on earth BEFORE mankind sinned.

Sorry sis.. But I can not buy this theory..

God can do whatever he wants. You want to limit him. well thats on you

 

[amigo de christo]

oh yes. The behemoth Job describes as being so large that only God himself could go against him

It sure does seem they were literal days indeed .
A twenty four hour time peroid .
Unless one thinks it took GOD thousands of years to create adam from the dust .
I do beleive each day was a literal day . And as you wrote above , it does say The morning and the evening .

 

[Aunty Jane]

God said in 6 days he worked. on the s7th day he rested. and he said in the like manner. on 6 days we shall work. on the seventh day we will rest.

A direct corrolation

Yet, why was this law only for Israel....and as it says in Deut 5:12-15...

“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.” (ESV)

There is no Sabbath observance mentioned in the Bible for those who lived before the law was given to the nation of Israel....and gentile Christians had no command to observe it.
Can you tell me why?

So you have death on earth BEFORE mankind sinned.

Since the animals were never designed to live forever, death was a part of their life cycle. How could Adam know what death was unless he had witnessed it?
Everlasting life was promised only to the humans, who alone were made in God’s image.
Death is not a drastic prospect to animals because they do not have a concept of the future, making humans the only creatures who can contemplate their own demise.

Sorry sis.. But I can not buy this theory..

God can do whatever he wants. You want to limit him. well thats on you

I have no doubt that God can do whatever he wants.....and has the power and authority to do so unquestioningly.....but the Genesis account is quite straight forward and the increments called “days” are within the Hebrew definition of the word meaning “a period of undetermined length”, so 24 hour “days” just doesn’t fit with what science knows....and God did not operate in earth time whist constructing an infinite Universe. How long are the days on other planets just in our solar system?
The Bible does not fight with true science.....it just doesn’t agree with many of its theories.

God’s first purpose in putting us here on this tiny planet didn’t include death for the caretakers. Death in the animal kingdom is a continuing part of the circle of life for them.

 

[Writer]

You have a hunger for God that goes beyond your question. You must understand that God is very, very long suffering and patient beyond human expectations. God can wait a thousand years and still not seem like more than a day to Him. The bible says "In the begining God created the heavens and the earth". Suddenly, things start to get confusing. Why? Well, because in the first six days of creation for example, there is no account for what day the waters were created. There is no account for what day the heavens were created. There is no account on what day God layed the foundation of the earth. Now before you jump in and say things like, well its all inclusive in the beginning. No, not at all, otherwise there would not have been the need to make an account seperated by days.

Here is what God did. He certainly laid the foundation of the earth...in THE BEGINING, and He created the heavens and all the angels first and afterward the earth and all the dinosaurs...IN THE BEGINNING. How long did that take Him, there is no account for that part, Angelic history is not logged in the bible, but we know they were tested and afterward three Angelic beings became the three major leaders; Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. Lucifer became a dragon, when God called all His heavenly hosts together to show them clearly that His throne would be received by His only begotten Son who would be a King over all creation both above the earth and below the earth and would reside in a beautiful city called the new Jerusalem where He would be worshiped and adored forever and ever from His bride, also called His elect because He chose her. Satan got jelous and rebelled, and that's how the fight started. Rather than taking his place with honor serving man, Satan was thrown to the earth in dishonor to be crushed by those who worship Jesus.

After the beginning, the bible then documents the days. So now we see there is a difference between the referrence to the beginning, that which takes place before history, or pre-history and that which takes place from the FIRST DAY, or the beginning of history. The first documentaion of History as we know it, for our accounting.

The meteor you speak of, Jesus Himself reveals to us. Jesus says “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning". Satan fell to the earth when He fell out of grace with God and committed the unpardonable sin. Satan's fall with one third of the heavenly beings, destroyed the earth. Suddenly the bible says, "and the earth was formless and void. Void meaning empty". There went the dinosaurs. "and darkness was upon the earth".

After God created man on the 6th day, Satan was already here waithing for the right opportunity to distroy the man; and then came Woman and that's how the fight started....and here we are talking about it :)

 

[Bladerunner]

It sure does seem they were literal days indeed .
A twenty four hour time peroid .
Unless one thinks it took GOD thousands of years to create adam from the dust .
I do beleive each day was a literal day . And as you wrote above , it does say The morning and the evening .

It is obvious that GOD introduced the dimension of Time to the equation. As He is outside of Time and Space.

 

[Dan Clarkston]

Why would god have just put dinosaurs on earth ?

It's possible that God is not the one that caused them to be here... and was why He whacked them with the flood along with the nephilim

If God would have wanted them here, he's had dinosaurs go on Noah's Ark... but he did not.

 

[amigo de christo]

It is obvious that GOD introduced the dimension of Time to the equation. As He is outside of Time and Space.

There is a time in which to man there is a begining and an ending
But as you wrote above , GOD had not beginning nor an ending . He is outside of what we understand as time and space .
A time which simply always was and always is . Our tiny minds
cannot truly grasp the depths of that .

 

[TheHC]

Hello, my cousin…

[The Creative Days were longer than 24 hours.] This is not true.

Are you sure?

So much evidence destroys this theory

But in that very account at Genesis 2:17, God told Adam,

“But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Adam died when he was 930 years of age.

So going by the account, “day” (Hebrew “Yom”) does not have to mean a literal 24-hr. day.

Have a great day. (Literally, lol.)

 

[Writer]

It's possible that God is not the one that caused them to be here... and was why He whacked them with the flood along with the nephilim

If God would have wanted them here, he's had dinosaurs go on Noah's Ark... but he did not.

God Created the Heavens and the Earth and the entire universe including the constilations. God can uncreate everything, including Satan, REAL FAST.

God Created Dinosaurs because He knew we would need Fossil fuel.

 

[Eternally Grateful]

Hello, my cousin…

Are you sure?

Yes, Again you have plants the day before the sun was created. They would die with no sunlight

But in that very account at Genesis 2:17, God told Adam,

“But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Adam died when he was 930 years of age.

So going by the account, “day” (Hebrew “Yom”) does not have to mean a literal 24-hr. day.

Have a great day. (Literally, lol.)

Spiritual death was the death God spoke of. And we are all born in this same death (in adam all die)

thats why we must be born again

 

[Bladerunner]

There is a time in which to man there is a begining and an ending
But as you wrote above , GOD had not beginning nor an ending . He is outside of what we understand as time and space .
A time which simply always was and always is . Our tiny minds
cannot truly grasp the depths of that .

why would you say that time was already created before Mankind?

 

[amigo de christo]

why would you say that time was already created before Mankind?

a figure of speech friend . GOD who exists outside of space and time .
This might be an overthink on your part my friend . Perhaps the word created was the wrong choice
cause What i was speaking about Was not created. an example could be said the TIME before time as we know it
and yet its not really TIME is it . just a figure of speech my friend .