Did Dinosaurs co exist with Man?

That makes no sense. Such cannot be literal days. what kind of mental gymnastics is used to make such a case.

 

The kind of mental gymnastics that certain people use, when they care more what atheist scientists say, than what God says.

 

Um, no. The Biblical approach is to be kind and understanding of the lost; false teachers, who are or claim to be in the ranks of Christendom (whichever the case may be), are to be denounced and refuted.

Saying that someone is attacking God's Word, when they are attacking God's Word, is not "trashing" them, it is merely stating a fact.

If someone punches me in the face, and I say "You just punched me in the face!" And they reply "No sir. I just kissed you with my knuckles," they are playing semantic games. Likewise, the person who bends their knee to secular science, and denies (they call it "interprets")what God's Word clearly says, is playing semantic games. They are attacking it. This is not "Trashing,"...it is just a statement of fact.

 

Clearly...

 

Other than that pesky little Hebrew term for day -- yom -- and the other little modifier that makes sure that we understand the context -- "and the evening and the morning were the ____ day..." you might be on to something. :laugh:

Also, we have Jesus explaining that the earth was created in 6 days... Surely He would have known the error of His ways had those days been other than litteral!

The cite below from Answers in Genesis will suffice to illustrate my point:

 

Rev,

Universe 13-15 billion
Earth 4.5 billion

 

Actually, no, it doesn't say death entered the world. It says, "death spread to all men."

Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— [NKJV]

12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— [NASB]

12Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— [ESV]

 

No sir. It is you that need to read it again. Lets break that verse up...


#1 Through one man sin entered the world

#2 Death entered the world, through sin

#3 Death, having entered the world through that man's sin, then spread to all men.

Death itself, this scripture says, entered the world through the sin of Adam. Then, having entered the world, it spread to all men.

Further,

Rom 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Rom 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

 

I am being Christ like.

Mat 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Joh 2:15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.


I am also being Paul-Like...

Gal 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Act 13:10 and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

 

I disagree with you brother, the entire point in the section of Romans Paul is speaking of death being the separation or relationship between man and God.

Genesis 2:17

17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[a] of it you shall surely die." (ESV)

Obviously Adam did not die on that day of the Fall, thus there must be a different (hidden) meaning of death here other than what you are suggesting.

 

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin...

Sin and death entered the world through Adam.

HankD

 

Hey I was explaining what someone else meant if you'll look through my post I believe in a very young earth. I was taught the Gap theory growing up but have dispelled that teaching after looking into the YE writings.

 

So how did they determine the age?

 

All I know is that if oil comes from the carcuses of dead dinosaurs there must have been billions of them almost up to the time of Christ in order to produce just the oil this country has used since 1900.. Truthfully I don't believe oil comes from dinosaurs as scientist claim. There has to be some other source. Most likely vegatation of some kind.
MB

 

Even if you allow for vegetation to be the source of oil you have to explain how decaying vegetation could form crude oil in less than 4,500 years. Care to take a shot at explaining that?

While you're at it, explain how coal and coral reef formations could have occurred in only 4,500 years.

 

Think about the earth and Noah's day all those people and animals that perished with the flood. Then think about the pressures up them as they settled in pockets under the newly formed geological regions while the earth was completely encompassed with water. You see how the decaying bodies would have formed oil pockets all over the earth.

 

Nope. It says "death." Death came into the world, not something else.

I guess Jesus didn't really "die" either.