by AMO 28 Replies latest jw friends
Hi all
Was pondering today on the jws stance on the existance of the dinosaurs. Would be interested to know any belieavers stance on this eg. your own belief and that of the WTs current understanding.
Insidentally i tried to search this on JW.org and no search bar, or at least i didn't find one ????. i wonder why, LOL.
AMO
I think I do remember seeing Dinosaurs in the old green bible.
Hi AMO ....if you look up to the top of this page left side...
type into that SEARCH bar, should get a lot of answers.
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I think the belief, more or less, of jw's is that the dinosaurs
were drowned in the flood! Yeah rite!
clarity
Apparantlly in the 50s 60s WT teaching was that satan scattered the dinosaur bones all over the earth to stumble believer's. What is there teaching today ????.
AMO
My guess is that the WTS is too smart to put very much in print these days. Congregation members will find their own ways to fill in the gaps (in logic).
You might enjoy this thread, the crazy young earth creationists:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/246678/1/Dinosaurs-Of-Eden
clarity:
What about the big dinos who could swim ?
This is from 'New Heavens And A New Earth' (1953) page 59:
7 "And God proceeded to make the wild beast
of the earth according to its kind and the domestic
animal according to its kind and every
creeping animal of the ground according to its
kind. And God got to see that it was good ." (Gen.
1 :25, NW) Included among these "living souls"
were the tremendous land reptiles, the dinosaurs
with their absence of fur and their definitely
snakelike shape of head, such as the stegosaurus
with an armor-plated spine, the protoceratops that
laid eggs, the diplodocus, the tyrannosaurus, 20
feet high and 45 feet long, and the brontosaurus
that weighed as much as 50 tons and was 100 feet
long. Bones of these have been found, although
they have long been extinct. They were the giants
of the animal kingdom, and demonstrated God's
power. These and the other forms of animal life
preceded man and God took care of them by his
due provision; man was not necessary.-Job 38 :39
to 39 :30.
Dinosaurs aren't mentioned much by the WTS, as the reason why 'God' would have made them, and the time involved for them to be fossilized creates headaches for simple people.
Hi Clarity
Yes did use the search bar HERE,LOL. But most are old treads and didnt really anwser my questions, what is current belief and what witnesses who are still in believe today, Does it differ ??.
AMO
