A Sudden Random Thought #2

I had an update in my mind all ready to write out...until I opened my Bible last night, found the verse that had inspired me, and realized I'd read it slightly wrong and the whole meaning changed for me. So that idea flew out the window pretty quick. Which is cool, because a few days ago, I felt inspired to begin a series of posts entitled: "Why I'm quiet." It will be a series answering that very question which I have been asked so many times over the last decade: "Why are you so quiet?" It's a question I have asked myself many times, one which I have prayed a lot about and reflected on much, but have struggled to find any kind of definitive answer. There are a number of reasons, I think, that I've stumbled upon over the years, and I think it's time I collected them in one place, and also gave everyone who has ever wondered this the chance to better understand why I am the way I am. Is this my way of justifying who I am and refusing to change? Not at all. In fact, I hope this exercise helps me to continue to grow even more as a person and into the kind of man God wants me to be.

But it will have to wait until I have more time to write (so sometime this weekend, hopefully). Until then, another quick random thought while I wrap up work here on this beautiful Friday evening:

I believe the Bible is God's Word, His instruction book to us, if you will. It is inspired by Him, God-breathed, and every word in it has a purpose. And so I have to wonder: why is it that the Bible never once mentions dinosaurs?

I'm probably not the first person to ask this, but really, how do they fit into Biblical History, exactly? Did they come and go all within those first seven days? Did God make them and then realize they posed too great a threat to his next great idea--humans--to keep around? (I don't believe God makes mistakes, so I'm guessing that's not it.) Did they get wiped out by the flood because they were too big for the ark? If a great big meteor crashed into the planet and wiped out the dinos, then how did we survive that and they didn't? Or did that meteor fall somewhere in the first seven days? And if so, did God see that and think, "It is good," as He did the rest of His creation? ("Woo! Fireworks!"...I'm gonna get smote for that one, for sure.) Or do you suppose God just decided to give the more archeologically  curious of us something fun to think about when He made the earth by rushing a few species of animals that pretty much defy logic through the whole natural order process and into fossilization before He got around to making us? All good questions to ask God when I get to Heaven, where I hope to be able to fly :)