Why isn't there any documentation of dinosaurs in the bible?

Question

THIS IS NOT A MALICIOUS QUESTION. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS A REASON THEY AREN'T MENTIONED.

There were no dinosaurs?

Ah! So we found them! Great thanks! Job chapter 41. And good point that lots of things weren't mentioned but it just seems from all the history on dinosaurs that I have seen and heard that they would have been a HUGE deal back then so I figured that it would have been mentioned at least once. Thanks all!

Answer 1

the word "dinosour" was not even invented. But there's "mammoth", "bahemoth", "Ibex", and "leviathan" in the bible. PLus "giants".

Job 40:15
15 "Look at the behemoth, [a]
which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.

Job 41
1 "Can you pull in the leviathan [a] with a fishhook
or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Isaiah 27
1 In that day,
the LORD will punish with his sword,
his fierce, great and powerful sword,
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.

Psalm 74:14
14 It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan
and gave him as food to the creatures of the desert.

Deuteronomy 14:5
5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. [a]

Answer 2

The Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim´] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day.
Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.
Some of the older translations of the Bible at times use the word “dragons” to translate the Hebrew tan·ni·nim´ (“sea monsters,” NW). (Ps. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1, Authorized Version) The term “dragon” (Greek, dra´kon) is found in the Christian Greek Scriptures. It has been suggested as possible that, rather than having a purely mythical source, this expression may originally have been applied to enormous creatures such as the dinosaurs, taking on mythical tones only after these mammoth creatures had long disappeared. Interestingly, many of the mythical depictions of the “dragon” strongly resemble certain types within the family of huge reptilian creatures that includes the dinosaur.

Answer 3

Because the Bible is a religious book written by people who had no scientific evidence or real tools to prove or disprove anything. It's not a history book or a book of facts, although it contains some of both, it's a book of faith just like others that have been written through the ages.

Most of mankind back then really wasn't interested in how the Earth works or the previous history of species, they were mostly just living day to day. There were some folks who did scientific experiments and some did come to many conclusions that are still true today, but these weren't religious men.

Nowadays there are literally tens of thousands of fossils proving irrefutably the existence not only of dinosaurs but many species who have come and gone. We have tools like radar that can show us things buried deep beneath the ground and carbon dating that can accurately determine the age of just about anything.. There are thousands of professors and students who make digging in the ground their lifes work.

That's why we have so many answers to these questions today and will continue to get them in the future. It's an exciting time to be alive.

Answer 4

I just answered this... here it is again... (I pasted this from the christiananswers.net site and I hope you don't mind a copy and paste for an answer):

Dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible. The Bible uses ancient names like "behemoth" (beh-HEE-moth) and "tannin." Behemoth means kingly, gigantic beasts. Tannin is a term which includes dragon-like animals and the great sea creatures such as whales, giant squids, and marine reptiles like the plesiosaurs (PLEE-see-oh-sors) that may have become extinct (died out).
The Bible's best description of a dinosaur-like animal is in Job chapter 40...


"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."
-Job 40:15-19 (NIV)

The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!

Answer 5

Well, there isn't a specific reason why they aren't mentioned, just as there is no specific reason why cows, bugs, antelopes, and other specific animals are not mentioned during the creative period when the animals were made. We all know 7 days is just 7 periods of time. The period of time (day) when all the animals were created could have been eons for all we know. The dinosaurs could have all lived and died during that time and the animals we know now could have come and even evolved some.
We don't really know a lot about the creation, but it doesn't really matter that much.

Answer 6

There is some documentation on dinosaurs. Its debated in Christian circles about Job 40. King James calles the creature a leviathan. Some theologians believe that this creature could be a dianosaur. Also the story about Noah they believe as well there were dinosaurs on the Ark. That's one of those questions I will ask God when I get to heaven.

Answer 7

I think that there are alot of things not mentioned in the bible simply because it couldn't mention everything, but in Job it does mention a large animal called a Behemoth. Some say it could have been a dinosaur.

Answer 8

Why isn't there any documentation of Kangaroo Rats in the bible, how about elephants, where are they. Lots of things are not mentioned. Every single thing can not possibly be mentioned. Just like the Da Vinci code, we invent a movie and then make a big deal out of how it possible could be true. Jurassic park a fiction movie and we want dinos to be like them in the movie. It just isn't so and it isn't mentioned. The Bible would take up a warehouse if everything was in it..

Answer 9

Though some may suggest that there are hints of dinosaurs in the bible, I personally would have to agree with the few that said "why should they be mentioned?"

After all, the bible doesn't mention lots of things. Its not a science or history book. Its what G-d wants us to know to serve Him better.

Answer 10

As far as you and I are concerned, apart from the great size and small brains of these beasts there is nothing remarkable about these creatures. If they were still alive today, would you expect the Bible to have something significant about them? By the same token, why doesn't the Bible have anything significant to say about Elephants or Cockroaches for that matter?

The Bible is the eternal story of God's relationship with the jewel of His creation, MAN.