Like why aren't dinosaurs in the bible?
And the ice age?

The Pentateuch was written by Moses.  Now obviously he wasn't writing about Zoology.  The pre-flood world was probably quite different than the world is today.  The expansion and retreat of the glaciers could easily have taken place in the aftermath of the Flood.  Obviously there is a lot that's hard to explain, but you shouldn't take it for granted that those who believe they've figured out "natural history" can really know what was going on in the past.  They use a lot of conjectural techniques and whenever they discuss any topic they implicitly assume God had nothing to do with it.  If you do that you're bound to come up with something like Evolution.  They think they know a lot more than they can know.  As for dinosaurs:  Now the book of Job does seem to refer to large beasts like the Leviathan and the Behemoth, which suggests ancient peoples had some knowledge or memory of dinosaur like creatures.

Also what about the barbarions and such? Please help or advise.

What is the issue with barbarians?

One more thing, there's a lot more to life than what your typical advocate of scientism believes.  Scientism is a fairly shallow and cruel ideology, don't ever fall for the line those "know-it-alls" are trying to sell you.

Lydia, if you read Job 39-41 dinosaur like creatures are mentioned in the Bible. Creatures that swim in the water and breath fire, and creatures that have LEGS LIKE PILLARS, and a TAIL like a cedar tree. I think you might find them interesting.

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I love the idea of God. However I don't know why I keep being so doubtful that He is there. ...I'm a baptised Catholic and attend mass every Sunday. I just want to believe. Why can't I? Sometimes I'll feel all happy about God, but sometimes I feel like science points to no God. ... Please help or advise.

Don't expect anything. Pray to Mary so that she can pray for you so that your faith grows.

Faith comes only from God's grace.

All the saints have a great devotion to Our Lady: no grace comes from Heaven without passing through her hands. We cannot go into a house without speaking to the door-keeper. Well, the Holy Virgin is the doorkeeper of Heaven. John Mary Vianney

All gifts, virtues, and graces of the Holy Ghost are administered by the hands of Mary to whomsoever she desires, when she desires, in the manner she desires, and to whatever degree she desires. Mary is the dispensatrix of all the graces God bestows. Every grace granted to man in this life has three successive steps: from God it comes to Christ, and from Christ to the Virgin, and from the Virgin it descends to us.  St. Bernardine of Siena

Every grace which is communicated has a three-fold origin: it flows from God to Christ, from Christ to the Virgin, and from the Virgin to us. Pope Leo XIII

The Lord has placed in Mary the plenitude of all good so that, if any hope of grace or salvation is in us, we know that we derive it all from Mary. St Bernard

For this reason, all creatures are obligated to render her respect and homage, as to their Queen and Sovereign to whom they belong, and upon whom they depend, and will depend, for all eternity. St. John Eudes

Even as Eve, having become disobedient, was made the cause of death both to herself and to the entire human race so also did Mary, by being obedient, become the cause of salvation both to herself and to the whole human race. And therefore, as the human
race was made subject to death by a virgin, so is it saved by a virgin.  St Irenaeus of Lyons

Mary has the greatest and clearest claims to our homage and praise: she is the salvation of the world; our dependence upon the august Mary is complete and universal. There is neither on earth nor in Heaven any justified soul, any one of the Elect, who does not owe Mary his justice and his glory. Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

Many have proved invincibly, from the sentiments of the Fathers - among others: St. Augustine, St. Ephem, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St, John Damascene, St. Anselm, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Thomas, and St. Bonaventure - that devotion to Our Most Blessed Virgin is necessary for salvation, and that it is an infallible mark of reprobation to have no esteem or love for the Holy Virgin while, on the other hand, it is an infallible mark of predestination to be entirely and truly devoted to her. St Louis Marie de Montfort

If our life were not under the protection of Mary, we might tremble for our perseverance and salvation. In her hands Jesus has placed His almighty power in the order of salvation. All the graces of salvation, both the natural and the spiritual, will be given to us
by Mary.  St. Peter Julian Eymard

Mary is the whole hope of our salvation. St Thomas Aquinas

The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. Through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is God's will: that we obtain everything through Mary. Ven. Pope Pius IX

A mediator, then, was needed with the Mediator Himself, nor could a more fitting one be found than Mary.  St. Bernard

Mary is our necessary and universal Mediatrix. No one can go to the Son but by Mary, just as no one can go to the Father but by the Son. Only through Mary do we reach Jesus, since Jesus came to us only through Mary. Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

Nothing comes to us except through the mediation of Mary, for such is the will of God. Pope Leo XIII

To reach the Eternal Father, we must go to Jesus, our Mediator of Redemption. To go to Jesus, we must go to Mary, our Mediatrix of Intercession. St. Louis Marie de Montfort

What, therefore, God hath joined together, let no man put asunder ... Take the Child and His Mother. St. Matthew 19:4; 2:20

The Child is not found without Mary, His Mother. If, then, it is impossible to separate what God has united, it is also certain that you cannot find Jesus except with Mary and through Mary. Pope St. Pius X

We must never separate Jesus from Mary; we can go to Him only through her. Without Mary, we would never find Jesus. Whoever would say "I have no need of Mary" would be guilty of blasphemy! Our eternal salvation is at stake, and we are bound to honor her as the Mother of God and our Mother. St. Peter Julian Eymard

Mary is the Ark of God, the center of the universe, the cause of creation, the business of the ages. Towards her turn the men who have gone before us, we who are now living, those who are to follow us, our children's children, and their descendants. If we have any chance of salvation, we have it all from Mary, Go, then, have recourse to Mary. St. Bernard





If you persevere till death in true devotion to Mary, your salvation is certain. St Alphonsus Maria Liguori

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.  St. Idelphonsus


In the multitude of the Elect she shall have praise, and among the blessed she shall be blessed. Ecclesiasticus 24.4

Her children rose up and called her blessed. Proverbs 31:28

For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed ... who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of man, A of God. St Luke 1:48, St. John 1:13


Every one of the multitudes, therefore, whom the evil of calamitous circuмstances has stolen away from Catholic unity, must be born again to Christ by that same Mother whom God has endowed with a never-failing fertility to bring forth a holy people.
Pope Leo XIII

Bearing in her womb the Savior, Mary can also be said to have borne all those whose life the Savior's life enshrined. All of us, then, as many as are knit to Christ, have come forth from Marys womb: one Body, as it were, knit together with its Head. Pope St Pius X

Although in the most pure womb of Mary there was but one kernel of grain, Jesus Christ, nevertheless, her womb is called a "heap of wheat" (Cant. 7:2) because all the Elect were virtually contained in it. St. Ambrose

Mary is that Happy Ark, in which those who take refuge will never suffer the shipwreck of eternal perdition.  St. Bernard

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish. St Hilary of Poitiers

We believe that Mary opens the abyss of God's mercy to whomsoever she wills, when she wills, and as she wills; so that there is no sinner, however great, who is lost if Mary protects him. St. Bonaventure

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.  St. Ignatius of Antioch

Not a single soul who has really persevered in her service has ever been damned. St. Louis Marie de Montfort

0 Mother of God! If I place my confidence in thee, I shall be saved; if I am under thy protection, I have nothing to fear; for being thy client is a certainty of salvation which God grants only to those whom He intends to save.  St. John Damascene

Being thy servant, 0 Mary, is a surety of salvation which God grants solely to those He will save. St. Andrew of Crete

The servants of Mary are as certain of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved, and reign in Heaven? Surely, those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes. The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved! St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori

0 Blessed Mary, whoever loves you, honors God; whoever serves you, pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name, with a pure heart, will infallibly receive the object of his petition. St. Bernard

0 admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many others would I have committed if thou hadst not preserved me? How often have I seen myself on the brink of Hell in obvious danger of falling into it but for thy most benign hand which saved me? Alas! Without thee, my dearest and all-good Mother, where should I be today? I should be in the fiery furnace of Hell!  St. John Eudes

Would that everyone might know that I would already be damned already were it not for Mary! St Louis Marie de Montfort



The honor of Mary is so intimately connected with the honor and glory of Jesus that to deny the one is at the same time a denial of the other. Ven. William Joseph Chaminade

He who neglects the service of the Blessed Virgin will die in his sins. He who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven. Not only win those from whom Mary turns her countenance not be saved, but there will be no hope of their salvation.

No one can be saved without the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  St Bonaventure

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. Pope Pius XII

If you would enter into Life, keep the commandments ... Honor thy father and thy mother. St Matthew 19:17,19

Behold thy Mother! St. John 19:27

Jesus honored her before all ages, and will honor her for all ages. No one comes to Him, nor even near Him, no one is saved or sanctified, if he too will not honor her. This is the lot of angels and of men. St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

There is a generation that does not bless their Mother, a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness. Proverbs 30.11-12

All the true children of God, the predestinate, have God for their Father and Mary for their Mother. He who has not Mary for his Mother has not God for his Father.  St. Louis Marie de Montfort

Whoever does not wish to have Mary Immaculate as his Mother will not have Christ as his Brother either; the Father will not send His Son to him; the Son will not descend into his soul; the Holy Spirit will not make him a member of the Mystical Body of Christ; for a these mysteries of grace take place in Mary Full-of-Grace, and in her alone. And, since the First Born Son was conceived only through the specific consent of the Most Blessed Virgin, the same holds true for all other humans. St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Your heart will either sing the divine canticles of Our Lady, or echo the cursed and unhappy songs of worldlings here in dishonor to God and vibrate eternally with the blasphemies and horrid dirges of the damned in Hell!  St. John Eudes

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I love the idea of God. However I don't know why I keep being so doubtful that He is there. The idea of atheism is terrible sorry to me. I just can't imagine forever being like that. I'm a baptised Catholic and attend mass every Sunday. I just want to believe. Why can't I? Sometimes I'll feel all happy about God, but sometimes I feel like science points to no God. Like why aren't dinosaurs in the bible? And the ice age? Also what about the barbarions and such? Please help or advise.

Don't expect anything. Pray to Mary so that she can pray for you so that your faith grows.

Don't expect anything = don't expect any signs and wonders, Our God is a hidden God.

If you want quick signs, seek them in the demons. They will manifest themselves if you invoke them. If the demons exist, then God must exist. If you can rid yourself of the demons by invoking the name of Jesus, and no other name will work, save the Blessed Mother, then your religion is true. I don't recomend this method, but it is the only way you will see "signs".

People (specially women) today run away from any mention whatsoever of death, and hell, they avoid any thought of the subject. Yet no earthly reality will equal contemplation  of death, as a guide to the correct road for eternal life. Meditate on the reality of death.

In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin. (Eccle 7:40)

Correct me if I am wrong, but I hope you are not saying it might be an okay option to try this thing with the demons so that you can invoke the Holy Name of Jesus to see if there is a God.  This would never be right and would probaly open up doors that would be hard to close.  This is never a viable option.  I know you probaly didnt mean it this way, but it could come across like that.

Have you thought about this:

1) Faith is a grace, and can be taken away as punishment for sin.

2) Are you in the state of grace?

3) Do you pray for the grace of Faith as you would pray for help in any other area in which you would struggle?

4) Do not confuse consolation and emotion (i.e., "feeling good about God") with the intellect and will (i.e., I can prove philosophically that God exists, since the universe could not be formed lest there be some first efficient cause; an unmoved mover, as Aristotle says).

5) Many of the great saints have been tempted by desolation in the spiritual life (What St. John of the Cross called "the dark night of the soul.").  You should read that book.

6) Why aren't there dinosaurs in the Bible?  This is of little consequence, lest you lose all belief in many other things that don't appear in the Bible which were certainly living at the time (e.g., Geese and yellow-bellied sapsuckers, etc).

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I love the idea of God. However I don't know why I keep being so doubtful that He is there. The idea of atheism is terrible sorry to me. I just can't imagine forever being like that. I'm a baptised Catholic and attend mass every Sunday. I just want to believe. Why can't I? Sometimes I'll feel all happy about God, but sometimes I feel like science points to no God. Like why aren't dinosaurs in the bible? And the ice age? Also what about the barbarions and such? Please help or advise.

Don't expect anything. Pray to Mary so that she can pray for you so that your faith grows.

Don't expect anything = don't expect any signs and wonders, Our God is a hidden God.

If you want quick signs, seek them in the demons. They will manifest themselves if you invoke them. If the demons exist, then God must exist. If you can rid yourself of the demons by invoking the name of Jesus, and no other name will work, save the Blessed Mother, then your religion is true. I don't recomend this method, but it is the only way you will see "signs".

People (specially women) today run away from any mention whatsoever of death, and hell, they avoid any thought of the subject. Yet no earthly reality will equal contemplation  of death, as a guide to the correct road for eternal life. Meditate on the reality of death.

In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin. (Eccle 7:40)

Correct me if I am wrong, but I hope you are not saying it might be an okay option to try this thing with the demons so that you can invoke the Holy Name of Jesus to see if there is a God.  This would never be right and would probaly open up doors that would be hard to close.  This is never a viable option.  I know you probaly didnt mean it this way, but it could come across like that.

Not to mention that demons are highly intelligent beings, and would probably realise that if somebody was actually desperate enough to resort to this, doing absolutely nothing would be the best way to drag that poor soul down to Hell.

Canuk is correct.

and to answer Anthony, You are right "it is never a viable option".  I didn't mean to say that it is a viable option "to try this thing with the demons so that you can invoke the Holy Name of Jesus to see if there is a God". I was making a point that if you want signs and wonders from God, you won't find them, but can find them from the demons. I was making the point that one should suspect "signs and wonders" as coming from the demons, until the Church has ruled otherwise. This is very important to follow in our times, where groups (prevalent among the "feelings" oriented types) have today "apparitions" in practically every state in the USA, and states in other countries.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1:8)