Posted on 03/08/2010 6:27:24 PM PST by TaraP
So, stars that are five to ten million light years away, only appear so? We need to rewrite the laws of physics, in that case.
He probably took eggs onto the ark.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrright!
It coulda been a baby cedar. ;o)
Ever read a work of fiction? The story you read is essentially only as “old” as the actions of the characters, IOW the story’s main timeline. That’s the one in which the characters act. However, there is often a “backstory” that explains events that came before. Any good author makes sure the backstory - the actions that happen before the main timeline - is coherent with the main story.
Now, writing a work of fiction is an act of creation. So wouldn’t it make sense for the First Creator - God - to be able to do something similiar with His story, our reality? Thus, when He created the Earth and everything else, maybe He gave it a backstory, which from our perspective is entirely real. And of course His backstory would be perfectly coherent (ie, without contradiction to the main story).
In Bible-like terms, this would be “God created the heavens and the Earth, along with histories for them.”
Just an idea I toy with, not an advocate of it. But it does seem to explain a lot.
The dinos may have been extinct for about a thousand years, but certainly not much more. there is just too much written, cultural, and graphic record of them for them to have perished very long ago. Some are probably still hanging on, such as the plesiosaur that is often seen, and others that are often discussed in the northern Congo.
Another Person’s Theory....
God did not intend man to go down certain paths, Humans and Angels mixed bloodlines and also the animals became currupted, that is why they were wiped out apart from Noah and his Animal filled Ark. Then came the Tower of Babel one top of that and God confused the languages and spread man out across the world, that is why we find similar pyramid cultures across the Globe and many tribes that still tell of the great flood.
What I am saying is, were Dinosaurs experiments too, and if so did God wipe them out too during Noah’s flood. There were said to be Chimara’s which are humanoid animals? There are a lot of stories with Greek gods and Egptian animal gods taking both human animal characteristics.
The Bible view is that fallen Angels wanted to breed with humans to save them selves and it was Satan’s plot to stop Christ being born in the Flesh which meant Angel DNA was the saving factor over human DNA bloodlines but God knew this and decided to wipe them out and only Noah and his family were the pure lines for us humans to be saved as a species.
It occured several times too after and will probably occur today with DNA testing and hybrids.
Nothing was 65 million years ago.
Elephants do not move their tails like a cedar, they hang downward, and curl.
Now, can man bring near a sword to an elephant or any other animal on the earth? I would say yes. However we have an animal here that only God can bring near a sword, what kind of beast would you say that is?
Apparently you have a problem between similes about movement and physical resemblance. Read the verse and explain what is being compared to a cedar.
It’s not as though God is restrained by the laws of physics.
He raised the dead. He walked on the sea. He gave sight to the blind and fed thousands with a few loaves of bread and some fish.
He said, Let there be light, and there was light. They didn’t sit around for a million years waiting for it to arrive.
Some dinos appear to have been ocean based creatures, in which case, I’d assume the Noahic flood wouldn’t have killed them.
Note the capitalization in the verse. Who can wield the sword of God? It is His sword, only He can bring it near. The verse is quite clear about the sword.
Of course you would have to accept the idea of a "big bang" first to reason about the location of the stars now from a single compact source. I personally believe God said, "Let their be light." and BAM there was light, all at once. So the measuring of something in light years only is a way of measuring distance and not time. A light year is about about 6 trillion miles.
You do realize that Jubilees is not a scriptural book, right?
That’s true, but I don’t think anything living in the Sea was taken on the Ark.
GOD wanted *Clean Animals* that could be used for sacrafice and consumming...
Yes, but I had read some of the writings were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls but not sure either.
Good Lord, what is that thing - a Cthulu? Quite an imagination had Mr. Lovecraft.
So verse 18 talks about a beast, then the next verse talks about something totally unrelated to a beast, but then verse 20 goes on talking about a beast again? If this was your point, I’m not sure how that all fits together.
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