Thoughts on the beginning

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Just_A__Follower said:
There is more left out of scripture than is put into it.(John 21:25) That leaves a lot of room for my imagination. Whether He did it in six days or a million years, it really doesn’t matter, and doesn’t affect my faith in Him.
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Just so you know, Dino is our own in house, CC Dinosaur. One of the few, that can text, and talk fluently in English. The years of government programs have paid off in huge dividends. lol. O.k. joking aside. Hopefully, I can get away with this one, if not it was my take on humor.

Anyways, not sure I share your view on the beginning. As crazy as it sounds, some people believe (like myself) dinosaurs are still living. Comodo dragon (or Comodo dinosaur), alligators/crocodiles, rhinos, hippos, and some reports of "extinct dinosaurs" living in the far reaches of Africa in our current time. Before they were called dinosaurs, they were called dragons. Dinosaur is a relatively new word from the 1800's.

In the Hebrew calendar it is year, 5785 possibly. There are Christians that have spent time in this early earth belief, such as Dr. Carl Baugh and Kent Hovind. Feel free to look them up, for a less mainstream view point.

My views are hardly informed or credible, but who has been around in the beginning of time to see, what was what? I can tell you about the rotary phone and low graphic video games, life without internet, but that's about as far as I go back. lol

At best we can speculate about the beginning and either believe the Bible, or believe what Darwin said, but I'm gonna stick closer to what the Bible said. The rest is commentary, that may or may not be true.
 
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Just so you know, Dino is our own in house, CC Dinosaur. One of the few, that can text, and talk fluently in English. The years of government programs have paid off in huge dividends. lol. O.k. joking aside. Hopefully, I can get away with this one, if not it was my take on humor.

Anyways, not sure I share your view on the beginning. As crazy as it sounds, some people believe (like myself) dinosaurs are still living. Comodo dragon (or Comodo dinosaur), alligators/crocodiles, rhinos, hippos, and some reports of "extinct dinosaurs" living in the far reaches of Africa in our current time. Before they were called dinosaurs, they were called dragons. Dinosaur is a relatively new word from the 1800's.

In the Hebrew calendar it is year, 5785 possibly. There are Christians that have spent time in this early earth belief, such as Dr. Carl Baugh and Kent Hovind. Feel free to look them up, for a less mainstream view point.

My views are hardly informed or credible, but who has been around in the beginning of time to see, what was what? I can tell you about the rotary phone and low graphic video games, life without internet, but that's about as far as I go back. lol

At best we can speculate about the beginning and either believe the Bible, or believe what Darwin said, but I'm gonna stick closer to what the Bible said. The rest is commentary, that may or may not be true.
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The comodo dragons thing is one I’ve heard before is definitely another possibility. It’s definitely all speculation but fun to think about.

Darwin was a very lost person who wanted to be his own god I’m fairly sure, as with most atheists I’ve met. It’s also the way I felt when I was a so-called atheist. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe but more of I didn’t want to believe. By God’s grace I finally gave up that pipe dream. I kinda miss my Atari and corded phone in the kitchen with the 20 foot cord.
 
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Just_A__Follower said:
I’m sure there are many young earth people and others on here so I’d like to get some thoughts on what I believe. My theory is that “in the beginning” is not our beginning as far as humans. My theory is that God possibly had multiple creations before our time on earth. Maybe one of them included the dinosaurs. Maybe said creations defied Him and He wiped them out with a meteor as He did us with a flood. The way I read it is that “in the beginning” and “day one” are different times, day one being the beginning of the current creation’s(us) time. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard this from anyone before. What are y’all’s thoughts on this?
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Just_A__Follower said:
That’s the way I read it as He created then later He restored or reformed something He had previously created. I guess all depends on how you translate the word “הָיָה” whether to “was” or “became”. Did He create the earth formless and void, which would be unusual for Him to create something that wasn’t good. Or had He already created it and over time it became void and formless? If they wouldn’t have started building that tower we wouldn’t have this translation problem 😂.
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The way I see it, God creating the heavens and earth is like God being born of himself by himself, if you can envision that.
The heavens and the earth, in the same sense of the spectrum of light, is the full spectum of existence; from the visible things we touch and feel from their hardness to softness, coldness to heat, solid to liquid to gas―to the invisible things we imagine, perceive, and get emotional about.
 
And the days are God arranging everything into place, until it's perfect.
Which is why it goes, 'There was evening and there was morning' instead of ' There was morning and there was evening'.
The darkness was on the surface of the deep, then the solutions dawned on Him.
 
And in the end, the darkness is completely consumed by the light.
 
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