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to ask Christians about dinosaurs...

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EastYorksLass · 29/04/2022 17:46

This is a serious question - so I have been thinking a lot lately about whether God exists, the meaning of life and why is the world in such a terrible state... been thinking about going to church but still feel I am on the fence. One question which has really got me thinking (after watching dear old David Attenborough... ) is where do dinosaurs fit into all this. Sorry if this sounds very weird but I would love to hear an explanation!

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sudoscream · 02/05/2022 11:41

J0nah · 02/05/2022 11:33

I'm only up to page 11 so apologies if this has been covered but the God having no arms bit intrigued me. If we were created in God's image where did our arms come from?

Metaphorical as in intellect and free will. God don't have arms or a human form, he's God. Easy mistake to make but it's obvious when you think about it. He's not actually a giant in the sky. Has no need for arms or a beard (I'm a non-believer but used to go to church).

OMG12 · 02/05/2022 12:25

J0nah · 02/05/2022 11:33

I'm only up to page 11 so apologies if this has been covered but the God having no arms bit intrigued me. If we were created in God's image where did our arms come from?

Created man in his image is basically another way of saying “as above so below”, found in Hermeticism, the following passage in the Gospel of Thomas “Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single one so that the male won't be male nor the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image; then you'll enter [the kingdom]." Or “on earth as it is in heaven” in the Lord’s Prayer etc, also Kabbalah concept of the divine spark. Etc

Blake’s “The Divine Image” also is a good exploration of this.

Hawkins001 · 02/05/2022 14:35

So to summarise, basically could it be asked that any religions are what humans want them to be ?

regardless of what the original beings commands were for humanity ?

OMG12 · 02/05/2022 15:55

Hawkins001 · 02/05/2022 14:35

So to summarise, basically could it be asked that any religions are what humans want them to be ?

regardless of what the original beings commands were for humanity ?

Yes religions are what humans want them to be, they are based on humans trying to describe the ineffable using the references and needs of their culture dependant on time and space.

this is different to the energies, concepts, archetypes and consciousnesses they are trying to describe.

the two things shouldn’t be confused.

Trainbear · 04/05/2022 08:32

All religions books of Holy scripture are about God's relationship with humankind.
Animals only feature when they are an allegorical part - Daniel and the.lion, Mohammed and the cat etc.
Dinosaurs are in theology irrelevant. And not too relevant today.

Kennykenkencat · 06/05/2022 11:16

Gowithme · 29/04/2022 18:44

Dinosaurs aren't in the Bible because when the Bible was written people weren't aware that dinosaurs had existed. It's that simple surely?

I always wonder though how Christians know which bits of the Bible to take literally and which bits they shouldn't - it seems to be which ever bits are convenient most of the time!

Wouldn’t they come under land animals, birds etc. It doesn’t specify

Kennykenkencat · 06/05/2022 11:18

Pumperthepumper · 29/04/2022 18:51

But do you believe that god is literally a man? Or that he’s a sort of life force of the world?

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Well he could be anything but according to the bible he has an image

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