Originally posted by ESB -1138
The Bible never said it was a whale that swallowed Jonah.Jonah 1:17
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Excuse me.... I stand corrected, people way back in the day had the ability to survive in the belly of a BIG fish.
Originally posted by JaehSkywalker
theory of mine is, they we're in the time of noah, and got drowned by the flood.
Theory of mine is the Bible doesn't stand against or for the existence of dinosaurs, and the lack of their presence in the text just shows that they were not around at the time Adam and Eve left the Garden, not that they were not there. As many people point out, the dinosaurs were not around when the evidences of man are dated at. Therefore, they were not present when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden.
Originally posted by Alliance
^^^ I sonetimes wonder how you are able to reconcile these things.
Dinosaurs existed, I believe in the Bible.
If Dinosaurs weren't around when man came out of the Garden, why would man list them in the creation he wrote? It is taking the Bible too literally that suggests that Adam named all the animals. He named those that he came into contact with. He never came into contact with dinosaurs, probably due to the fact that no matter how tame, it would be unsafe for man to be around them. They did not have to be in the Garden, there is no Biblical passage saying that all of creation existed in the Garden. There is suggestion that weeds and such were not present in the Garden. Their(dinosaurs) existence on the Earth has been shown useful for man, if for no other use than the natural resources their existence provided. Also, there is no description of the time Adam and Eve existed in the Garden, many things could have occurred during this period as well. Who knows, maybe an asteroid hit, or some other thing occurred, and wiped them out before Adam and Eve left the Garden. The existence of dinosaurs does not threaten Bible validity.
Originally posted by Regret
Dinosaurs existed, I believe in the Bible.If Dinosaurs weren't around when man came out of the Garden, why would man list them in the creation he wrote? It is taking the Bible too literally that suggests that Adam named all the animals. He named those that he came into contact with. He never came into contact with dinosaurs, probably due to the fact that no matter how tame, it would be unsafe for man to be around them. They did not have to be in the Garden, there is no Biblical passage saying that all of creation existed in the Garden. There is suggestion that weeds and such were not present in the Garden. Their(dinosaurs) existence on the Earth has been shown useful for man, if for no other use than the natural resources their existence provided. Also, there is no description of the time Adam and Eve existed in the Garden, many things could have occurred during this period as well. Who knows, maybe an asteroid hit, or some other thing occurred, and wiped them out before Adam and Eve left the Garden. The existence of dinosaurs does not threaten Bible validity.
No offense, if I was writing and saw a huge animal in the distance, or heard it, It'd be the one of the first things I'd include.
Dinosaurs we're really useful. Most oil/coal (perhaps all?) come from plants. And do you thank the little crustaceans everytime your use chalk?
I typed a gian t response, but then realized I was wrong. I will contelplate on this.