Two questions for Christians (serious)

format_quote Originally Posted by Philosopher

1.) Do you believe that the world is 6000 years old?

Apparenly, Jews do. I never thought that Christians might also have this belief actually.

2.) Do you believe Noah carried dinosaurs in is ark?

LOL! Now that should be interesting... although I am sure dinasours were extinct before humans came around, weren't they?

1)no
2)no
i have this sneaky feeling, that you would like to prove me wrong...

lol, sis Malaikah, this question was intended for Christians (read carefully). We Muslims should refrain from answering. Hehehe...

^Yeh, I know, but I didn't answer, I just commented.

format_quote Originally Posted by duskiness

1)no

Do you know why the Jews believe this but you don't?

Greetings,

I think the questions you've asked are directed at a specific group of Christians, not all of them. They seem to be designed to bait certain fundamentalist groups of Christians (such as Young Earth Creationists), and I don't think they are representative of the beliefs of mainstream Christianity.

Some Christians do apparently believe the world is 6000 years old. This belief seems to have started with this guy.

As for dinosaurs on the ark, I have no idea. Some Christians believe that dinosaurs are actually dragons:

format_quote Originally Posted by answersingenesis

Are Dinosaurs Mentioned in Ancient Literature?

Interestingly, the word ‘dragon’ is used a number of times in the Old Testament. In most instances, the word dinosaur could substitute for dragon and it would fit very nicely. Creation scientists believe that dinosaurs were called dragons before the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s. We would not expect to find the word dinosaur in Bibles like the Authorized Version (1611), as it was translated well before the word dinosaur was ever used.

Also, there are many very old history books in various libraries around the world that have detailed records of dragons and their encounters with people. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly for creationists), many of these descriptions of dragons fit with how modern scientists would describe dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus. Unfortunately, this evidence is not considered valid by evolutionists. Why? Only because their belief is that man and dinosaurs did not live at the same time!

However, the more we research the historical literature, the more we realize there is overwhelming evidence that dragons were real beasts, much like our modern reconstructions of dinosaurs, and that their existence has been recorded by many different people, even just hundreds of years ago.

Hope that's of interest.

Peace

I recently went to a seminar for children's pastors where one workshop speaker began by presenting a dispensational history of the world. And he claimed it was getting close to about 7,000 years. After that statement he got applause from nearly everyone in the room.

You will find Christians all over the place on these two questions. There are some who believe 6000 years and dinosaurs on Noahs ark. Some believe the flood killed the dinosaurs; others that they were extinct before the flood, but still lived with people. Some believe that the dinosaurs never really existed and the fossils are something that God merely created in the ground as he created the world. And there are some that think all of these ideas are pure rubbish, that the world is billions of years old, the universe older, that dinosaurs lived long before mankind was ever evolved into existence, and that both Adam and Noah are pure myth. (A few would even put Abraham, Moses, and David in the category of myth.)

As I said, you will find all kinds.

If you are interested in learning more about the views of those who hold to the 6000 years theory, read the works of Henry Morris or check out this website by the Institute for Creation Research.

1.) Do you believe that the world is 6000 years old?

2.) Do you believe Noah carried dinosaurs in is ark?

a few billion years ago (give or take a few eons) I was a very devout Catholic at that time the Catholic teachings for both questions were a very loud NO.

as you may have noticed the teachings on this differ among various Christian denominations. Christianity can not be placed into any single set of beliefs. All Christians have some things in common, but in many area they differ widely.

format_quote Originally Posted by Grace Seeker

You will find Christians all over the place on these two questions. There are some who believe 6000 years and dinosaurs on Noahs ark. Some believe the flood killed the dinosaurs; others that they were extinct before the flood, but still lived with people. Some believe that the dinosaurs never really existed and the fossils are something that God merely created in the ground as he created the world.

lol, this is hilarious. Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, what were they doing on Noahs ark if Noah lived with in 6000 years ago?

They can't answer yes to both question 1 and 2, if they believe the world is 6000 years old, then the only thing they can possible believe is that dinosaurs never existed and only their fossils did.

But what about the fossils of humans that date back ~200 thousand years? Do they also believe they were never really alive, and just skeletons that God put their?

^Yeh, I asked in their before, and that is what they explained to me, more or less.

But that still doesn't explain the dinosaurs!