Brand new member, first post. I actually joined because of the first OP.
Firstly I am a fundamentalist.
I do believe the Bible is literal where a historical narrative is used.
I am a creationist.
I don't believe the exact age can be determined except that it's some thousands of years old, not millions. Millions are only needed for those believing in evolution.
No, I do not believe in evolution and I am not arguing with those who do. I believe everyone has a right to believe in what they believe, but if your belief is simply based in fear -you don't understand something - therefor it must be of satan, is not a good bases for belief.
Yes, I do believe in both dinosaurs and a round world.
The reasons why I do not believe dinosaurs are a satanic deception:
Satan cannot create. That's giving satan abilities he doesn't have. God alone is the creator.
"In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth" Gen. 1:1
"You alone are the LORD. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you." Ne 9:6
Many other verses tell us that God alone is the creator. If bones and fossils have been found God created them.
God created land animals
"And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good."
Dinosaurs are simply extinct land animals. What God has called good we should not call evil. Many animals have gone extinct and are going extinct. Food, disease, climate change and man are the culprits. Meat was given to Noah once he came off the ark, so whose to say they didn't eat young dinosaurs or their eggs. To me that is a very likely scenario; protein-rich eggs would have been very tempting to people whose life consisted of hard labour. They were also probably animals that many people were fearful of. People are quick to kill snakes so I am sure dinosaurs would have been on the list too. Man is the deadliest creature alive not any dinosaur.
Dinosaur is a modern word, invented in 1842 by palaeontologist Richard Owen. It simply means "terrible lizard"
Before this people talked about dragons. If you look at most countries, you will find some mention of dragons.
One lizard today is still called a dragon, the Komodo dragon and I think it does look rather dinosaur like.
Artists have interpreted what dinosaurs might have looked like but no one really knows for sure. The same way people have inferred things about them from their teeth or claws is open in my opinion to creative licence. I think the way they are shown is again a gross characterization. Unless an animal is seen and studied most of it is inferred.
Dragons and dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible.
The Hebrew word "tannin" translates as sea or land monsters.
Behemoth and Leviathan are both described in Job. Job 40:15–24 and Job 41. Only people who find the idea of dinosaurs being alive with man unbeliavble say the creatures discribed here are a hippo or a crocodile. Behemoth is described as having a tail like a cedar tree and no hippo that I have ever seen has a tail like that.
Dinosaurs would have been on the ark. They start life as a small reptile out of an egg. They ranged in size fully grown from as small as a chicken to extremely old large ones. They along with some other creatures continue to grow their entire lifespan. We know that man had a much longer lifespan at one time and so must the animals. Of course old large dinosaurs were not taken on board. It's that silly characture that makes a mockery out of the real ark. Even Behemoth would have been tiny and helpless to start with. You would not want to start a new world with old animals, but young ones who will breed well. The Bible states that Noah’s cargo was limited to land-dwelling animals. Gen 7 "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two of each animal that are unclean, a male and his female" Since dinosaurs would have been unclean only 2 of each kind were aboard. I don't wonder that dinosaurs are extinct; I wonder that so many animals managed to survive after the flood and not become extinct.
Dinosaur red blood cells have been found. To me this speaks of thousands of years not millions.
I don't know where the flat earth people get that the Bible calls the earth flat, it actually says it's round. Isaiah 40:22 "It is he who sits above the circle of the earth"