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However the Hobit makes no claim to be the word of God. The bible does.
So does the Koran...so what? I bet you don't think the Koran is the word of god just because Islam claims it to be. A claim either means something or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways.
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The man who authored them was probably one of the staunchest Christians of his time and he also converted one of his peers, who's another of those legends of the early 20th century.
Don't hurl the hobbit books out of the window now
Hehehe. Depends on who you ask. Tolkien was a Catholic so some of your fundie Xian kin would claim he wasn't a "true" Christian. Tolkien of course did recognized Christianity as the cultural mythology that it is so maybe they are right.
Regardless, Tolkien's religious background isn't in the least bit relevant to the point I was making. When you have a self-admitted work of fiction that makes more sense and is more solid than the so-called word of god, I think that says quite a bit...
When the bible was written most of the people were still very superstitious. Believing in one god was a huge leap for mankind back then. I am sure if Dinosaur bones were unearthed they believed them to be ancient dragons that had been killed long ago. The had no idea of geology back then in the way we do now. The only way to explain dinosaurs back in the bible writing days would of been something along the line of dragon lore. Many of the superstitious myths are not prevalent in the bible. I would assume that dinosaur bones would of been related to myth ideas, and kept out of the bible.
When the bible was written most of the people were still very superstitious. Believing in one god was a huge leap for mankind back then. I am sure if Dinosaur bones were unearthed they believed them to be ancient dragons that had been killed long ago. The had no idea of geology back then in the way we do now. The only way to explain dinosaurs back in the bible writing days would of been something along the line of dragon lore. Many of the superstitious myths are not prevalent in the bible. I would assume that dinosaur bones would of been related to myth ideas, and kept out of the bible.
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Is the Biblical Yahweh actually a dragon?, All of the evidence seems to say so.
If you stop to think about it...there's one line in the Book of Genesis reading, "And there were giants in those days." Wouldn't you think it makes sense that someone had actually discovered some dinosaur fossils, and drawn what would have seemed like a logical conclusion? So perhaps at least indirectly, there were dinosaurs in the Bible!
Since the creation of animals and man in Genesis, the most common animals mentioned in the Bible are the ones we know of. if the bible possess the absolute truth of God then dinosaurs should have been more present in the bible as we all know how incredibly enormous these creatures were.
If the earth is 6000 years old then how on earth or what on earth happened to the dinosaurs?
Yes the Bible does mention dinosaurs in at least two chapters.
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Of course if Dinosaurs died of 65 million years ago, they would not be seen on ancient art work, or spoken of in the Bible.
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