What did god have against dinosaurs?

[tarekabdo12]

For those who believe in both evolution and creation what is the story with the dinosaurs. I hear people say god would chose evolution as the means to get to humans. Why would god choose to "create" thousands of species of animals just to wipe out 99% of them?

I'd like to point to the idea that God creates because He's a proficient creator, God creates in a great pattern and is not in need for any creature. Whereupon, the transition of life reflects mainly the great abilities and design God makes. Like an effecient artist, God forms his great works at first for creation of beauty. Creating new creature in a great way is -as I can say- like a hobby and interest. However, an additional cause for creation of humans came which is the presence of a new creature capable of thinking and making choices between right and wrong. This creature will strive in this life to choose and follow the truth. The new creature's supposed to choose to love God rather than being compelled to do so. This creature is the human-being. I don't think that even after the afterlife arrives God will stop creating new creatures on the best pattern. The extinction of some animals occurs as the needs of the world differ. As for the arrival of the new creature, life should be paved for him in order to perform his great and significant job efficiently.

I hear people say god would chose evolution as the means to get to humans

Speaking of myself, I don't believe so. I believe that God is not in need to do it that way.

 

[tarekabdo12]

we believe that the dinosaurs were possibly used as a means of preparing the ground, spreading seeds and fertilizer and keeping the vast amounts of wild vegetation under control. Then when the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life.

It doesn't have to be that way. God creates because he loves creation and dose it in a proficient way. I think that God will remain creating even after the humans are reckoned. God creates as he is a creator.

 

[tarekabdo12]

Actually if you date the age of the earth using the Bible, you'll find that the dinosaurs lived and died long before creation. So when God created the heavens and the earth, the dino's were already ancient history. God hasn't been around long enough to have created dinosaurs.

Was he sleeping or what?
Strange comment-as I see it-.

If you already believe in God so how were the dinosaurs created? or do they have a special creator?

Please, say something that is plausible and acceptable to the minds.

 

[tarekabdo12]

If you portray god as a "person" with a "plan" then it doesn't make much sense.

Well, look at your body and its systems and see who it's planned before you talk. Read human body's anatomy and physiology then explain how you claim that God can't plan.

 

[tarekabdo12]

It would seem that in order for mammals and humans to have thrived it was better for the dinos to go away. If it were planned that way it seems like a lot of trouble to go through for the results we see now.

May be this's true.

 

[tarekabdo12]

Why would god choose to "create" thousands of species of animals just to wipe out 99% of them?

We may give explanations but probably our limited minds won't reach God's intentions.

 

[PolyHedral]

Well, look at your body and its systems and see who it's planned before you talk. Read human body's anatomy and physiology then explain how you claim that God can't plan.

Like this. If an engineer I employed made that many mistakes, I'd have their work redone.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Why would god choose to "create" thousands of species of animals just to wipe out 99% of them?

Because they rejected Christ? Just a guess!

 

[PolyHedral]

Because they rejected Christ? Just a guess!

It'd be tricky to reject a man who didn't exist for another few million years.

 

[earlwooters]

My last post is completely plausible. It's meant to show the divide between Canaanite creation stories and scientific evidence. There are also many versions of the origin of the universe much older than than the one contained in the bible, scattered around in different religions. Mot,Yam, Hadad, and Yahweh, are listed as sons of El in ancient Canaanite religions, and it was El who created all.

Psalm 89:6 (verse 7 in Hebrew) has:

For who in the skies compares to Yahweh,
who can be likened to Yahweh among the sons of gods.

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[Skwim]

My last post is completely plausible. It's meant to show the divide between Canaanite creation stories and scientific evidence. There are also many versions of the origin of the universe much older than than the one contained in the bible, scattered around in different religions. Mot,Yam, Hadad, and Yahweh, are listed as sons of El in ancient Canaanite religions, and it was El who created all.

Psalm 89:6 (verse 7 in Hebrew) has:

For who in the skies compares to Yahweh,
who can be likened to Yahweh among the sons of gods.

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Interesting that the Bible confirms there are other gods in the skies. Veery interesting.

 

[tarekabdo12]

Because they rejected Christ? Just a guess!

I don't think they were eve intelligent enough to choose.

 

[Thief]

Did someone mention 'plan'?...'intent'?

So God would have this enormous test tube with life in it.
And the purpose of that life is to join spirit and physical existence.

Plant life is fine....then fish and fowl...then everything that walks.

Somethings walk better than others.
Somethings are more aware of their surroundings than others.

Then sort them out to allow more of one ...less of the other?
Sure...of course...why not?

One large meteor...and most things over fifty pounds die off....
leaving behind the small and the quick.

Occasionally, a more rapid change in the scheme of things will happen.
Such as the Garden event in Genesis.
A quick manipulation to change the course of a species.
Physical and spiritual intervention in one occasion.

 

[fantome profane]

Dinosaurs had a good long and successful run. It is just silly to expect everything to last forever whether you believe in “God” or not.

 

[Reptillian]

Dinosaurs had a good long and successful run. It is just silly to expect everything to last forever whether you believe in “God” or not.

They did indeed have a long run, and they were some of the most advanced life forms the world has ever seen. If God exists, then God must love reptiles. Hell, even tortoises outlive men by decades.

 

[Pegg]

Interesting that the Bible confirms there are other gods in the skies. Veery interesting.

all spirit beings/angels/cherubs/seraphs are gods

god meaning 'mighty one'

 

[Skwim]

all spirit beings/angels/cherubs/seraphs are gods

god meaning 'mighty one'

This may be a JW belief, but it's not the conventional one. From Wikipedia.

"Angels are messengers of God in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Etymology
The word angel in English is a fusion of the Old English word engel (with a hard g) and the Old French angele. Both derive from the Latin angelus which in turn is the romanization of the ancient Greek ἄγγελος (angelos), "messenger",[6] which is related to the Greek verb ἀγγέλλω (angell&#333, meaning "bear a message, announce, bring news of" etc. The earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean a-ke-ro attested in Linear B syllabic script.

Early Christians inherited Jewish understandings of angels, which in turn may have been partly inherited from the Egyptians. In the early stage, the Christian concept of an angel characterized the angel as a messenger of God.

The angels are represented throughout the Christian Bible as a body of spiritual beings intermediate between God and men: "You have made him (man) a little less than the angels..." (Psalms 8:4-5).

Many Christians regard angels as asexual and not belonging to either gender as they interpret Matthew 22:30 in this way. Angels are on the other hand usually described as looking like male human beings. Their names are also masculine. And although angels have greater knowledge than men, they are not omniscient, as Matthew 24:36 points out.

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."

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So where do you come up with the definition of god that means only "mighty one"?

 

[tarekabdo12]

My last post is completely plausible. It's meant to show the divide between Canaanite creation stories and scientific evidence. There are also many versions of the origin of the universe much older than than the one contained in the bible, scattered around in different religions. Mot,Yam, Hadad, and Yahweh, are listed as sons of El in ancient Canaanite religions, and it was El who created all.

Psalm 89:6 (verse 7 in Hebrew) has:

For who in the skies compares to Yahweh,
who can be likened to Yahweh among the sons of gods.

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Thank you but I am not bound to the bible.

 

[idav]

They did indeed have a long run, and they were some of the most advanced life forms the world has ever seen. If God exists, then God must love reptiles. Hell, even tortoises outlive men by decades.

If there is a god he probably loves animals except for pesky humans. If the earth were a petri dish humans would be ruining the whole experiment. Maybe he doesn't mind us so much since we are still here for the time being at least.

 

[Reptillian]

If there is a god he probably loves animals except for pesky humans. If the earth were a petri dish humans would be ruining the whole experiment. Maybe he doesn't mind us so much since we are still here for the time being at least.

I think that if the Earth is an experiment by a deity, then what we become or create will be far more interesting than our current state.