If God made lifeforms in his image and the first life forms were dinosaurs, was God a dinosaur?
Mark question
“God” made man in his own image.
If he made all creatures in his own image, he’d have to be a changeling.
Wrong, on two counts:
(1) Genesis doesn’t state that God created all lifeforms in His image, only mankind.
(2) Under both the Creationist and under the Evolutionist views of the beginning of the world dinosaurs were not the first creatures.
Zev Steinhardt
Couple of problems with that…
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The folks who subscribe to the God Made… viewpoint, usually say ‘Man’(to mean humans), not ‘lifeforms’ - the book of Genesis, for example, doesn’t say that man was made first, only that he was made in the image of God.
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Dinosaurs were not the first life forms anyway.
So, no. God probably wasn’t a dinosaur.
According to your theory, God should be some sort of single cell organism. :rolleyes:
But if we’re going to go by the bible, then no, Adam was created in God’s image, not the other way around.
If he were, he’d be a Theosaurus. 
Badda bum. I’ll be here all week.
Well, “in His image and likeness” is applied to Man, with a spiritual rather than a physical connotation, by any modern believer in Judaism or Christianity. That’s not to say that a physical “image and likeness” was not what the original writer may have intended – but it’s not how it’s understood.
In addition to which, by your logic, God was a prokaryote, since the first life forms, and the only ones for 2+ billion years, were prokaryotic microbes – bacteria and cyanophytes. Dinosaurs didn’t come along until 4.3 billion years after the world was created, long after life started: If the present is midnight on a day that started when the world did, dinosaurs showed up as a latebreaking story late in the 10:00 newscast, the lead story of which was of course the Permian extinction.
what were the first creatures?
That is ONE potent cell!
Polycarp just told you - procaryote organisms, similar to modern bacteria.
In the Biblical account, the first creatures were plants.
In the Evolutionist account, the first creatures were one-celled creatures without nucleii.
But, in any event, it has nothing to do with God’s image.
Zev Steinhardt
If that’s the case, it’s little wonder that men, created in His image and likeness, are sinnin’ hims!
:: cue purple dinosaur ::
I love you/
You love me/
We’re a Biblical family/
Then a smite rang out/
And someone hit the floor/
No more ape-men anymore…/
Odo: Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you believe the Founders are gods is because that’s what they want you to believe? That they built it into your genetic code?
Weyoun: Of course they did, that’s what gods do. After all, why be a god if there’s no one to worship you?
Odo: Bring me a bucket.
I need to take a nap.
The factual question has been answered, so I’ll close this thread before we get into debate territory.
bibliophage
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