Good! I have met some who have engaged in a form of Bibliolitry, where the Bible becomes a type of idol. Well, from Jesus' words to the Pharisees, we can see that they were doing that.

One of the things I liked reading from the Spirit of Prophecy was in the Desire of Ages where she talks about how there are heathen who will be saved (I'm sure you know the passage, so I won't quote it). This shows that we are saved by knowing God through Jesus Christ (who can reveal God to a person in many ways), and not by simply believing certain words we read in Scripture, which, unfortunately, there are those who seem to believe.

As I said, if ressurection bodies have no exchange of cells where old cells fall off dead, then some of the most important parts of the body will no longer be what they are today. A person can live without an arm, a hand, an eye, a leg and so forth. No human can survive without skin or a stumach/intestine system. Both of these have replenishment and exchange of cells as a crucial part of how they work, and were this exchange to stop, you would be dead in a short time (dont know exactly how short but I imagen within a month. I confess not taking a very close look at the passage. As I said, I dont know that it makes any substantial difference to what I have said. As you said, Jesus was dead and then He was ressurected. Whats characteristic of His ressurection body? We do not know if it was working any different in any biological sence. We know that He ate and had His scars, but He also walked through walls and disappeared unexpectedly, perhaps like teleportation. Will we also be able to move through walls and locked doors and teleport when we get ressurection bodies? Locksmiths will go out of buisness if thats true. My summary is that any biological differences between bodies as we know them and ressurection bodies are for the time being pure speculation and nothing beyond that. Rosangela has no foundation for saying that hair cells will not be dead no more than I have any foundation for speculating about a ressurection body skin.

Adam named all the animal species in less than a day, which suggests a small number. God guided the animals onto the ark, which suggests only the original species entered the ark (no dinosaurs, etc). The caged animals would have been inactive, which suggests they didn't require a lot of food. Thus, I have no problem believing the story as it appears in the Bible.

God did not create dinosaurs? Who else in this universe has the creative power to creat them then? Scripture says that God created everything that was created through the Word/Jesus. Dinosaurs existed so either God did not bring all sorts of animals on the ark or they died out after the event.

Ah ... so we have some point of agreement. I agree that "we could never understand" how the Creator made this world.

Does that mean, though, that we need to reject Genesis 1 as a historical account because we cannot understand how God did it?

Do you know how Jesus raised people from the dead?

Do you believe that he raised people from the dead?

Do you accept what God says in His written word?

Does he tell you things that contradict the biblical record?

By my observation, Yes! Those who have joined our church the last couple years definitely testify to the fact -- in spite of the fact that they have joined a bunch of imperfect people.
Where does God say so?

And I'm really curious where you got all that "information" we are supposed to "look at."

(Not saying the church is perfect, nor denying the problems. But the overall picture I see is very different from what you see. I suppose it depends on what you're looking for.)

I'm with you on this. (Hey can you give us a short form of your forum name? The full one is rather long!)

One of our Adventist scientists, Elaine Kennedy, has specialized in the study of dinosaurs. And there is definite evidence of dinosaurs after the flood. A couple dinosaurs (or more) on the ark would not be a problem. They hatched from eggs and thus started out quite small. They probably would have survived just fine for a year on hay. Genesis didn't specify that all the animals on the ark had to be at their maximum size.

You could call me Thomas.

Baby crocodiles live their first years on insects. Maybe that would be true for dinosaurs aswell?

I think Mike is referring to what Ellen White says in these passages:

Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. {3SG 75.2}

There were a class of very large animals which perished at the flood. God knew that the strength of man would decrease, and these mammoth animals could not be controlled by feeble man. {4aSG 121.2}

It's interesting that the extinction of the dinosaurs is a mystery which has intrigued scientists ever since the first dinosaur fossils were discovered. There are many theories to explain their extinction.