Before Adam & Eve?

[Guest saved*by*grace]

Hey everyone.

Ok...I'm new to this website so I don't know if this question has been asked before or if it has been asked too much, so if its old and worn out, just let me know.

In Genesis 1:28 God told Adam and Eve to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"

Replenish means to "put back", but in order to put something back, there had to be something there to begin with.

So what was there? Was it the Dinosaurs? Did they exist with Adam & Eve? I mean I can't really imagine Adam walking around with a T-rex on a leash or playing fetch you know. Was it a whole other world like this one that God had destroyed and put us here?

I'm just curious. That verse always made me think.

Joanie

[Leonard]

The Hebrew word does not carry the meaning of replenish; it means simply 'fill.'

There are however a good body of scholars who believe in the 'gap theory' between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

[irishcowboy]

he created all the other critters first.....

also,

we do not know how long the actual day was.... it may have been a day like we know it, or it may have been thousands of our years for each of Gods days....

we also do not know for sure if Adams time (age) started from the actual time he was created, or if it started from the time he was kicked out of Eden.....

there are many variables that we just dont know.... I have a list of Questions to ask God when I get to see Him face to face....

mike

[apothanein kerdos]

Well, here is what I see in scripture. Lets perform the "Little child test".

no no no no no no no no no no

That is NOT what Jesus meant when He said "little child" test. This does not mean you interpret scripture like a little child. It is saying that to come to God we must rid ourselves of our arrogance and approach Him humbly, NOT to interpret the ways of God like a little child.

Now, back to your scheduled program.

[irishcowboy]

well, i think this has gotten off subj....

we might even look at it this way....

suppose, just suppose, day one of creation was years before day two of creation.... which might have been years before day three of creation... so forth and so on...

just a thought not gosple, not anything.... just a thought.

mike

[NITE OWL]

2 Peter 3:8 But beloved do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Just something to think about.

[Guest Zayit]

G-d called the light Day, and the darkness he called night, And the evening and the morning were the first day.

24 hours a night and a day, if not then we have to beleive that time changed since then, that one night and one day equal x-amount of years.

[NITE OWL]

G-d called the light Day, and the darkness he called night, And the evening and the morning were the first day.

24 hours a night and a day, if not then we have to beleive that time changed since then, that one night and one day equal x-amount of years.

What about 2 Peter 3:8?

[Guest Zayit]

One day is with the L-RD AS one thousand. We are not the L-RD, and to him and the time he knows it is that way, with him.

but our time on earth was set by the sun the moon and the stars. There is light ( when we face the sun) and there is night ( when we face away from it ) and that makes OUR day, not His day.

[ruah brit]

So what was there?

Christ was there.

Denise