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SUBJECT: Dinosaurs and Cave Men
QUESTION: Where there cave men? Did dinosaurs and men live
at the same time? How can the earth be 6000 years old when
dinosaurs have been proved to be much older?
ANSWER:
There is no evidence that man and dinosaur lived at the same
time. We can see from the Bible that there is a vast gulf
between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2:
Genesis 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
Note: Verse 1 says that God created the heaven and
the earth. Clearly, He would have done a perfect job and
everything would have been perfect. Now in verse 2 we see a
problem....something has changed. The earth is void, without
form and in darkness. Something happened. A war.
From our doctrinal statement on Angels:
Long before man, one of the cherubim—his name in Latin is
the familiar word Lucifer—had the honor of covering the very
throne of God (Ezek. 28:14), indicating a position of very
high authority and power in God's government. However, he
was lifted up in his own vanity, became resentful and
jealous of God, and finally rebelled against God's
government. He drew with him as cohorts a third of the
angels. These became evil angels or demons with Lucifer, now
Satan the devil, as their leader
From the Nelson's Bible Dictionary:
SATAN
History. Two Old Testament passages-- <Isaiah 14:12-15> and
<Ezekiel 28:11-19>-- furnish a picture of Satan's original
condition and the reasons for his loss of that position.
These passages were addressed originally to the kings of
Babylon and Tyre. But in their long-range implications, many
scholars believe, they refer to Satan himself. They tell of
an exalted angelic being, one of God's creatures, who became
proud and ambitious. He determined to take over the throne
of God for himself. But God removed him from his position of
great dignity and honor.
~from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary
There was a war in heaven. It takes place between Genesis
1:1 and Genesis 1:2. The result of the war left the earth
without form, and void and in darkness. This kind of war is
depicted in the following verses in Revelation:
Revelation 12:7-9
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more
in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him.
These verses show the severity of the battle. It had to be
bad to leave the planet void. It was in this battle that the
dinosaurs perished. We have much evidence of these great
animals being around much earlier than man. According to the
Bible there are easily billions of years between verses 1
and 2 but only the 6000 years since then. Science is wrong
on the idea of prehistoric man living millions of years
before the Genesis account. Adam and Eve were not cave
people. Man has a habit of making the scientific finds
(bones, fossils, etc.) to fit their preconceived theories.
Just take a look at evolution.
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