Were there dinosaurs on Noah’s ark?

Ian Denness — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:19:44 +0000

Sighting of Dinosaurs

Secular evolution has it that dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, and that no human has ever seen a living dinosaur. However, if you replace the word dinosaur with dragon, then it becomes a different matter.

It was in 1841 that dragons were renamed dinosaurs, and the search for their bones was begun in earnest. Now literally billions of their bones in almost all countries of the world have been found.

St George and the dragon

As for sightings, there has been much evidence of that through history. St George and the dragon would be the best known. Great Britain has the St George cross on its flag, even though George was from Turkey. Apparently he was an officer in the Roman army for one of the Caesars, and had converted from Paganism to Christianity.

A book that helped me understand dragons more is displayed. It has many pictures of drawings and etchings of dragons in many countries of the world from over the past centuries. There is no way that people could have just drawn them out of their imagination, or even from seeing scattered bones on the ground. The only reasonable conclusion is that people saw them directly, probably at a distance, and then drew them.

Dinos on Noah’s ark?

There only needed to be a male and a female from each ‘kind’ after all. The largest would have fitted in, not as fully-grown adults, but as young dinosaurs, later to mature and mate. Then, over time, natural selection would have diversified them into many more varieties, just as with dogs, cats, livestock etc.

Naval architects calculate that the capacity of the ark was enormous, at about 15,000 tonnes, so lots of room for fodder and the various animal ‘kinds’ as described in the Bible. That will be another Post…

Blood cells still present in a T Rex bone?

One of my most fascinating reads some years ago was from the prestigious ‘Science’ journal in 2005. Dr Mary Schweitzer, a palaeontologist from the US, presented pictorial proof of what she was astounded to find when she cut open a T Rex femur bone many times – soft tissue in which there were blood cells, blood vessels and soft elastic tissue. That is incredible! Realistically, the T Rex could only have died some few thousand years ago, and definitely not 65 million!

Bible’s mention of a couple of dinosaur-like creatures.

One of these is in Job 40:15 and is called ‘behemoth’ (‘beast of beasts’) and the description could easily fit a sauropod herbivorous dinosaur. Its tail ‘sways like a cedar’, and its ‘bones are tubes of bronze’.

People like me who believe in Intelligent Design and the universal flood in the days of Noah are convinced that dinosaur graveyards are the result of that catastrophic flood not so many thousands of years ago. That’s why dino fossils have been found alongside ordinary objects like turtle shells, willow leaves, figs, crocodile bones and redwood cones etc.

You might like to check out these sites for more possibilities.

https://creation.com/

https://www.untoldsecretsofplanetearth.com/store/dire-dragons/#/

https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/job/40.html

The voting board here from my day at the Market shows what those present thought of my question…

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What’s lacking in Christianity?

Ian Denness — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:46:03 +0000

Do you think Christianity is deficient?

What I call ‘Cultural Christianity’ is definitely deficient, in my opinion.

That is what a lot of people think Christianity is, but it is only a name-only version, and a poor one at that. You could call it ‘Churchianity’ with popes, priests and platitudes. Going to church now and again, a thin veneer of religiosity, having a great time at Christmas and Easter, and a bunch of religious formulas, rules and traditions.

The Bible itself is usually secondary in this whole generalisation. Most of the population of our western societies have followed that over the centuries, and this has led to much of the confusion, hypocrisy and rejection of it over the last decades.

A living relationship, not a religion

The real thing is actually a radical and personal relationship with the living God of the Bible, which has been made possible through Jesus Christ. That is why it is called Christ-ianity. It leads to a changed life, a changed attitude and a changed future.

It is dependent on ordinary people like us realising who the God of the Bible really is, that he is completely holy and pure, and that we aren’t. It goes on from there to understand and thankfully accept what Jesus, the Son of God, at great personal cost, did for us in coming to earth and giving himself on the cross in Jerusalem as a substitute for us. And this out of pure and self-denying love, something totally foreign to any other belief system in the world.

To authenticate the truth of the spiritual transaction, God then brought Jesus back to life again, just as it had been predicted.

Our wrongs

Those of us who accept that we have wronged God, by ignoring him, and also wronged other people, have the opportunity of being completely forgiven our wrongs by God. However, since it is not just a mental acceptance, but a revolutionary change from the inside, we do need to change our lifestyle, learn to love others and to live to please God.

This free gift then gives us great joy and thankfulness, so much so that we want to live for him, rather than just for our own self-centred selves.

A new life

This new life should lead to faith, hope and love, with acts of kindness, sacrifice and serving of others. History has shown that such people over the centuries have willingly served the poor, the sick, the uneducated and the down-trodden.

However, there are still deficencies, as we are still very much human!

What do you think are the main deficencies?

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