The Re-Creation of the Earth. Bible Boot-Camp Lesson #3

Can dinosaurs
and the Bible be reconciled?

Many people tell me that one of the most troubling parts of the Creation Story is the concept that the Earth is supposed to be only six to ten thousand years old.

How can this be? The scientists say, that the scientific evidence is clear, the Earth has been in existence for a v-e-r-y long time, probably billions of years old. Yet many theologians painfully argue otherwise. Does the Bible have any simple answers?

A hint to the time sequence of our Earth's evolution is given in 2Peter 2:4-6:
first in time order, "...angels that sinned...";
next in time, vs.5, "...the ancient time from Adam to Noah...";
after that, in vs.6, "...the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah..."

Let's start at the beginning...

The creation story begins with the first verse of the Bible (Gen.1.1), and it describes the original physical creation in its entirety. This means our whole galaxy, including our planet Earth was created a v-e-r-y long time ago, as a perfect, up and running creation.

Supernatural beings, what we call angels were placed on the Earth long before the human creation. Created in another part of the universe, Angels existed before the creation of the Earth (Job 38.7). Angels are immortal, personal spirit-beings with self-will. YAHWEH does not create robots! Every being is created with a superior independent mind, with the power to think, reason, and make decisions. They are capable of developing attitudes, purpose and intentions.

Angels are armed for self defense with "flaming swords," or as some might call them, light sabers (Gen.3:24). They travel the universe in "chariots of fire," or as some might call them, UFO's. Their color is beryl. They can run like lighting, or they can bob up and down (2Kgs.2:11; Eze.1:2-28).

The Bible actually describes a form of government, not a religion. It is an intergalactic republic, based on the equal rule of law and grace. There were three angels of higher rank assigned to running the Kingdom of YAHWEH in this part of the universe. We know them today as the Archangels Lucifer, Gabriel and Michael. Archangel Lucifer, whose name means light-bringer, was the head of the local government. This was the v-e-r-y ancient time of the Earth which included many strange creatures such as the dinosaurs.

In this part of the Kingdom there was happiness, peace, joy and profitable trading. Business was good under Lucifer's management. All citizens prospered and built magnificent cities. This lasted for a v-e-r-y long time, but after some time Lucifer became so filled with pride and vanity, he thought himself to be as knowledgeable and powerful as YAHWEH.

Lucifer became envious of YAHWEH'S position and sought to overthrow HIM. Lucifer planned an interstellar, governmental, coup d'etat, and he convinced a third of the angels to follow him in a sinful rebellion against the Government of YAHWEH (Eze.28:12-17; Luk.10:18; Jud.6).

Lucifer's plan was to invade YAHWEH'S Heaven, capture YAHWEH'S Great White Throne Room (the seat for the entire universe) and remove YAHWEH from the Throne of the Universe. He would then rule the whole universe including all the interstellar societies (Isa.14:12-14).

When angels go to war trouble follows... The result from this war of the heavens was the destruction of the surface of the planets that they inhabited - Earth included.

The rebellious angels were defeated, but not destroyed, by YAHWEH’S loyal angels. In the court of the Heavenly beings, Lucifer was called to appear and give account of his actions. Court is held in the Great White Throne Room and is the most miraculous and wondrous place in all the universe, (Rev.4:2-11; Book of Enoch, from the "Lost Books of the Bible").

Lucifer's argument must have been brilliant and compelling, after all, he did convince a third of the angels to follow him, and now he explains his point of view for all in the Kingdom to hear. An eerie silence falls over the Room as all are attentive to the proceedings, we can only imagine the presentation Lucifer made in his own defense... (I would not attempt to describe what was said, in my current state of ignorance my feeble human version would only offend him - and I am cautious not to do that).

YAHWEH does not use HIS authority as a club. Listening to the proceedings YAHWEH is not swayed, HE knows Lucifer's approach to a different form of government will not work. But there must have been some discussion by the Council of the Elders, perhaps to allow Lucifer a limited time and limited area to test-market his program.

YAHWEH agrees and sets the ground rules, HE removes Lucifer's bright and glorious nature, and renamed him "Satan," pronounced Saw-tawn, which means adversary (Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary #7854). YAHWEH then ordains that Satan and his fallen dark angels still have limited powers and limited access to the heavenlies.

Satan cannot create life of any kind or foretell the future; he can only twist YAHWEH’S creation into something dark and sinful. The Bible teaches their characteristics are based on: self-centeredness, vanity, pride, lust, hate, greed, envy, vengeance, violence, destruction, and rebel against any form of Divine authority.

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*Remember: Humans do not have the power to destroy evil. Evil can only be defeated by resisting it within one self. Fear not, to be cursed by Satan is to be truly blessed. A threat from evil cannot harm you, unless you accept it. You must be like a mirror and reflect it back to its source. The individual can only accomplish this with Divine knowledge, in other words know your enemy.

Now YAHWEH has to clean up the mess from the planetary war of the angels. A hint is given in the Creation Psalm 104:30 (NJB), "Send out your breath and life begins; you renew the face of the earth."

The Bible, from verse 2, of Genesis 1, on through the remainder of the chapter, does not describe the original creation of the Earth, it describes a renewing of the face of the Earth - after the war of the angels.

In the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB), the first word in Genesis 1:2, "Now the earth was a formless void," speaks of a different time period than in the first verse. The Earth had become waste and empty. The second phrase "without form/formless, and void" is translated from the original Hebrew tohu and bohu. A better translation is "waste, destruction and empty" or "chaotic, in confusion and in state of decay."

Tohu and bohu are used often in the Hebrew Bible (Jer.4:23 and Isa34:11), in every case the condition of decay is the result of transgression of YAHWEH'S Laws. YAHWEH did not create the Earth as waste and empty, or in a state of decay (Isa.45:18). YAHWEH is not the author of confusion (1Cor.14:33); YAHWEH is the author of peace, order and law.

Here begins the Garden of Eden Bible story. YAHWEH now creates, in HIS image, a new being of the earth called Adam, whose name means earth creature or earthling. Adam lived in YAHWEH'S paradise called the Garden of Eden. We know Adam was alone for an unknown time until YAHWEH created a companion for him, who was called Woman. Which means taken out of man, because she was created from Adam's flesh and by taking one of his ribs (Gen.ch.2-3).

The Bible tells us after an untold amount of time Adam and Woman fell into sin and had to leave their home in the Garden of Eden. This begins the time of sin and humanity's ancient history approximately six to ten thousand years ago. (The story continues on the Sacred Covenants page.)

From the book The Mystical Rites of our CREATOR ISBN 0-9675266-0-4

FYI - Creation vs. Evolution: Everyone from the spiritually passionate seeker, to the lurker (one who listens, but does not participate) looks out into the night sky with awe and asks a simple question. Are we here by choice or by chance, and what is my destiny? The not so simple answer has fueled the debate between creation and evolution for generations.

The scientists describe for us "The Big Bang Theory " as when the universe came into existence. They describe the events starting one second after the Big Bang, but they never did indicate, even in theory, what happened one second before the Big Bang or where the point of massive energy originated from. Even if the Big Bang holds true, this theory does not corroborate Darwin's theory of evolution (which has many cracks in it). The universe is so complex that we cannot fathom all of the secrets of the DNA code or the subatomic particles that structure living creatures. The exquisite order of life cannot be formed from chaos. The father of the atomic age, Albert Einstein said "GOD does not roll the dice, we are a designed creation." He also said, "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind", a brilliant man with whom I would not argue. Science also tells us that the earth is hundreds of millions or even billions of years old. The Bible tells us that Human life started approximately six to ten thousand years ago. How can all this be reconciled?

"I cannot imagine how the clock of the Universe
can exist without a clockmaker." - Voltair

Even if the Big Bang theory holds true, this theory does not corroborate Darwin's theory of evolution, which has many cracks in it, (remember there are two sides to every argument) and when pressed on the details it becomes a theory in crisis. Darwin's unproven theory - preached as gospel by today’s educational institutions - says that the simple water organisms of some primordial ooze billions of years ago eventually became a fish, then over time the fish became a reptile, then the reptile became a bird, and so on until the ape became a human. The critics charge that some simple questions still need to be answered. How did the reptile become a bird? Where are the skeletons of the transitional forms? The museums of the world should be full of examples of transitional creatures of something like a half bird - half reptile or half ape - half human, but in all the world you will not find even one example.

What about man's best friend, the dog? A great variety of dog species have been bred over the centuries, but it has never evolved into another species - a dog is a dog, is a dog, and the same goes for the cat family. What about the lowly cockroach? Scientists tell us the cockroach was here millions of years ago, and when all is said and done, they will be the only ones left a million years from now. But it never evolved into any higher life form. A roach is a roach and will always be a cockroach.

Evolution within a species is a fact, but there is no scientific evidence for evolution between two species - none at all! Yet no one mentions this poverty of the fossil records, and scientists when pressed will reluctantly admit that Darwin knew of this major flaw in his theory, but he got around it by predicting that the fossils of the transitional forms would be uncovered in the future geological explorations - in the next twenty years or so. The missing link is not referring to the missing link between ape and man, but it refers to the fact that not one link has been found between any two species. It has been 130+ years since Darwin has proposed his unproven theory, and as of this writing they are still looking.

In the mean time, some evolutionists, when cornered, will then proudly proclaim the theory of spontaneous evolution. Which means, in an instant, due to some cataclysmic event, all life on the planet dies. Then after a time by some random acts of mutations, new life, having evolved from the simple into something more complex, reappears a couple of giant steps higher on the evolutionary scale - talk about your leap of faith. And even if everything died and a renewed world developed, it still does not settle the question: Is it nature or Divine force?

There is another problem with Darwin’s theory, he says all the worlds’ creatures evolved gradually up from a single cell, like a cone shape beginning at one point and spreading upward and outward, or like tree growing up and branching out. Yet today, the environmentalists constantly remind us of the world's dramatic deterioration and that many species are soon becoming or are extinct. Even some evolution scientists - when pressed - will say that the animal kingdom has today fewer classes of species or less diversity then it did thousands of years ago. In reality, it appears that the cone is upside down, because there was maximum diversity in the beginning and since that point in time creature diversity has been declining.

The scientists have their own which came first the chicken or the egg riddle to solve. They are asking which came first, the DNA molecule or the protein molecule? DNA is like the compact disc (cd) and protein is like the cd player, without the player to read the cd, nothing - meaning life - happens, and the disc is useless. Bordering on pure magic, the living universe around us is so complex that we cannot even fathom all of the secrets of even the simple human cell, which it seems, is not so simple. And, what about the phenomenon of the spark of life, that makes it all work? Carl Sagan once said the current information available on the simplest human cell is equivalent to 10 to the 12th bits, or in non computer terms the equivalent to 100 million pages of the encyclopedia Britannica - and the information is still incomplete. In the human body there are some 55 trillion cells all biochemically co-dependant, and they are working together in purposeful harmony - not by random chemical motion.

There is an actual map of the simple single human cell painstakingly drawn by brilliant scientists over the course of lifetimes. Although still incomplete, it is an enormous map. Traveling the roadways of physics and biology through the map is a spectacular journey of thousands - yet independent - complex chemical compounds, chemical reactions, energy transfers, etc. The DNA code and the subatomic particles that structure living creatures are still a marvelous mystery, showing that the exquisite order of life cannot be formed from chaos.

You do not have to go to the zoo to see your ancestors. Humanity is evolving, but our bodies are not evolving from some type of pond scum - it is our minds, hearts and spirits that are evolving. And, there are supernatural powers at war with humanity to prevent us from achieving our destiny.

Links for More Recreation Info...

> Creation Science Evangelism: http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=home
> Creation-Science Research Center: http://www.parentcompany.com/csrc/index.htm
> Center for Scientific Creation: http://www.creationscience.com/
> Institute for Creation Research: http://www.icr.org/
> Creation Science: http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/create/create.html

> Creationism Connection (lots of links): http://members.aol.com/dwr51055/Creation.html#Directory

Last modified: February 21, 2009