When Did Dinosaurs Exist on Earth?
Why did God create people? When did dinosaurs exist on earth?
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The question of why God created people is very deep, and we may never know the full answer until we meet Jesus face to face. But thank you for this awesome question, and the dinosaurs must not be left out, because we have thousands of fossils to prove that they existed at some point in time.
Let's just start this discussion by describing our attempt at knowing who God is by reading from 1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known." (NKJV) We just need to accept the fact that we are unable to see through the dark mirror right now, but when we are glorified and meet Christ face to face, a lot of things will come to light. For now, we just can't see everything that is out there.
But our God makes Himself known to us in certain ways, namely the Bible.
Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." We all know that God is "Creator" and He loves to create. That is His essence, thus God enjoys the act of creating. Why did God create the heavens and the earth? Isaiah has this answer, "For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: 'I am the Lord, and there is no other.'" (Isaiah 45:18, NKJV)
Thus we see that everything that was created was for our benefit. God created our home, and then He created us, the crowning act of His work. The Spirit of Prophecy explains, "Man was the crowning act of the creation of God, made in the image of God, and designed to be a counterpart of God." (Lift Him Up, 48)
Thus, a simple human response as to why God created us? Because God is love, and He expresses His love through His creation, just as a married couple expresses their love through bringing forth a child. God has given us the experience of pro-creation, so that we can know the love of God in a deeper relationship. I welcome your responses.
Now, when did Jurassic World exist?
Dinosaur fossils have been found all over the world. I enjoyed going through the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as well as other fossil sites.
Genesis tells us that God created everything in six literal days. If God created the dinosaurs, they must have come before Adam and Eve were created on the 6th day. Some Christians believe that dinosaurs were created by the people before the flood, during Noah's time. Their intelligence was so high that they knew how to splice DNA and cross-breed animals. In Spiritual Gifts Vol. 3, Ellen White states that, "Every species of animal which God created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood." I want to be fair in stating the origin of dinosaurs, because I have met some Adventist theologians who believe that God created the dinosaurs.
At any rate, they existed on earth at some point. Creationists use Biblical dates to place our earth between 6,000 to 10,000 years old, not millions or billions of years. Thus, as creationists, we believe that the dinosaurs roamed the earth, before the flood, about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. I welcome your responses and thank you for your questions!