Why doesn't the bible mention dinosaurs

Why doesn't the bible mention dinosaurs Aug 7, 2018 4:02:09 GMT

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Post by Eλευθερί on Aug 7, 2018 4:02:09 GMT

Aug 7, 2018 3:33:51 GMT monicah said:

Aug 7, 2018 0:12:02 GMT kls said:

The giant thing I can't explain, but I don't believe it was literally only a week. I'd imagine each 'day' is an era that could have lasted many thousands or millions of years. Not how we'd define day.

Yeah and I think the use of time in the Bible maybe could even just represent the concept of chronological events, and using the idea of "days" and "weeks" makes it easier to understand that concept.. but obviously not in a literal way.

Well, there would seem to a couple of pretty gigantic problems with that approach.

(1) How do you account for the phrases:
"and there was evening and there was morning, the third day"
"and there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day"
"and there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day"
"and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day"
Genesis 1

(2) Why does Genesis 2 say, "So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation"? Observers of the Abrahamic faiths to this day still honor the seventh day, the day God rested after creation. If creation took, say, thousands or millions of years, why was the observance of the holy day made a weekly event with the inescapable implication that one solar day out of seven, as we recognize them today, was designated as the special day of rest after six days spent in the process of creation?