Did God kill dinosaurs in parting of the Red Sea?!?

Question

And furthermore, did the Israelites feed off the carcasses of the dead water-dinosaurs?!?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2074&version=9

Psalm 74 (King James Version)

"13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness."

REALLY STRANGE! I never noticed this before today!

ALL: What is your take on it?

BTW, is the leviathan an unclean animal?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Actually, I believe the parting is when the earth was first created and the surface was covered by the rains and God made the continents and then the animals. Leviathan is often referred to as Biblical proof of dinosaurs, though I don't remember any reference like this in the early Old Testament that it hearkens back to.

The Psalm is merely listing all of the truly monumental things God had done, and the Psalmist is wondering why, if God can do all of these things, why He doesn't do the same thing to the people who anger the author. I think this is more to show the patience of God even before the birth of Christ than to be used as a defense against Darwinism 3000 years before Darwin. God knows that He created the world, and doesn't need anyone to understand it for Him to be God.

Answer 3

No, most dinosaurs were destroyed in the flood; however this passage has often referred to the fact that there were and are still a very large and unidentifiable creature known as leviathans that inhabit the darkest resources of the seas and it would have been this that provided the Hebrew children meat - later on we know that they were wearied of what God was providing and he eventually provided manna, which was angel's food and they wearied of that too - sounds like they were a bunch of American children to me - never satisfied with anything! But then, maybe that was the whole point of the desert or wilderness wanderings, to prove that we in our humanness are never satisfied, but always looking for something else and it's when we take our eyes off the Lord that we get dissatisfied!

Answer 4

Now this is a good question: My take, is that the language is symbolic,,,as metaphor, the Dragon represents Idolatry leadership, such as Pharaoh. Much the same way we represent the USA with the Eagle, and the Russian Nation with the Bear,,,the Leviathan and Dragon represent the Nation of Egypt, although the leviathan is probably also literally the Dinosaur prior to the Flood as referred to in the Book of Job, which is reputed to be the oldest narrative of Tanackh...which is speculative. To be "meat" isnt a literal, just as we say today....'that's my meat" and it has a dozen slang meanings...none of which are literal either. One needs realize that Hebrew language is well suited to euphamism, metaphor, similie, sarcasm and figures of speech. The difficulty in translating Hebrew is to figure out which is which, much the same way we need to have additional symbology, such as body, vocal tone, facial expression, all which we use to interpret the proper meaning of the words of the speaker. That Israel took virtually all the gold, silver and goodly garments from the Egyptians, indicates that the Egyptians were virtually consumed,,,but they were not eaten as food,,,for the Text declares that Israel ate unlevened bread for a week, and after that, manna, for forty years...No flesh of man. God forbid such consumption.

Answer 5

Well I don't think god had anything to do with it but I do believe that there were remnants of dinosaurs for people to believe in dragons. The bible is a book written by man (many men and interpreted (misinterpreted) by many more). As a basic Judaic history lesson it's a perfectly good book...it is however not the word of god...nothing written anywhere is the word of god. Until I see "Yahweh was here" carved into the side of Mt. Ararat that is!

Oh and I'm pretty sure the verses quoted above mean that the ancient people caught themselves a whale and feasted.

Answer 6

I believe it is referring to other gods from other religions. There were many ancient religions that worshiped gods that were part fish, body of a man with a tail of a fish. Through out history as reflected in ancient art this belief changed to show the bottom part as a serpent or leviathan, and some were associated with dragons. Remember Poseidon, half man half fish, (and this is a more modern one). This is probably where the mermaid thing started also.

Answer 7

No, sorry, by then they were turned to stone and waiting for discovery.

Remember when reading the King James version that it is a translation of a translation and in many places is actually incorrect. You might want to consult one of the newer translations direct from the original before interpreting, and even then make sure it's not a metaphorical turn of phrase.

Answer 8

It's interesting, but the NIV says "creatures" instead of people in verse 14. I wonder if the KJV was mistranslated. The difference being that the KJV was a translation of a translation & the NIV was the translation of known originals.

Answer 9

first of all there is no god. the bible was written by men with an agenda. second, dinosaurs have been gone for about 60 million years, the bible is only about 3 thousand years old. your reading too much into that crap.

Answer 10

Perhaps there were "sea creatures" that were disrupted. Science says dinosaurs were long gone by the time that event happened.

Answer 11

The verses are speaking of the six days of creation, not the splitting of the sea.