why werent dinosaurs mentioned in the bible???

Question

the earth is billions of years old and everyone thinks we are living in the end of times...........are we??

Answer 1

Xtians will say they are mentioned in Job and Jonah was swallowed by a big fish we haven't found yet.

Answer 2

I've heard that the terms 'leviathon' and 'behemoth' (found in Job) describe dinosaurs but I don't think those definitions describe a dinosaur; whatever it describes, it's not found now and I don't believe there are any references to a behemoth or leviathon anywhere else; regardless of whether Xtians believe in carbon dating, can't they at least use their (non-existent) scientific system of dating to determine that dinosaur bones are so much older than human remains, that the two didn't exist together?
As far as 'end of the earth' scares, I would think both Creationists and scientists would band together about global warming since it has scientific reasoning and would create the destruction of the planet for those who believe in the Apocolypse

Answer 3

The works comprising the bible were written thousands of years ago. The works collected as the New Testament are almost 2000 years old, and the older works are even older. Modern paleontolgy is a recent science, only developing in the past few centuries.

In the time of the bible's writing, if a bone from a dinosaur was found (and they were found, from time to time), they were ascribed to fantastical creatures, including (but not limited to) dragons, giants, cyclops, and gryphons. There are references in the bible to giants, which could speak to a knowledge of such discovered remains.

Answer 4

Because the Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures, where most Judeo-Christian cosmology is articulated, is based on the scientific and cosmological perspective of the Third through First Millennium BCE primarily, with such ideas as:

(1) Celestial waters in a great vault ("He watereth the hills from his chambers...");
(2) Flat earth (as the Roman Catholic Church compelled Galileo to recant & admit);
(3) Geocentric universe...

Much of the cutting-edge science of those times appears in the Bible (e.g., the idea that there is a fixed, determined procession of celestial bodies through the heavens--the so-called "astrological revolution" or "hieratic moment" of the Third Millennium BCE, which produced the whole idea of a Sky-God as opposed to Earth-Goddesses), but scientific knowledge not known to those times (e.g., evolution, the heliocentric solar system, extrasolar planets, dinosaurs...) does not, of course.

This would be perfectly appropriate were there not thousands of Christian extremists living in the USA today attempting to teach this scientific lore of three to five thousand years ago as timeless scientific truth.
But no dinosaurs were known to the scientific knowledge of that era.
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Answer 5

in Daniel dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible, and all over the world they are also mentioned, but called by other names.

for instance in Africa there is a being called Mokele-mbembe, aka dinosaur.

also the earth can't be old, and man walked the earth with dinosaurs as we do now, and they are more likely called dragons in history books, ever wonder why we have never found a dragon bone but yet every civilization has records of them.

Answer 6

People and dinosaurs did not live at the same time. The dinosaurs were already fossils before man walked the earth.

Answer 7

The Bible was written before dinosaurs were discovered. I don't think we are living at the end of times.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Bible, but they were just some of the creatures God created prior to the creation of man.

Answer 9

The Dinosaurs died off at the flood, and you still have some but now they are minature.
Yes, we are at the end of the age and it is the same as the days of Noah, they didn't believe Noah's report and was fully given up to folly. It's the same thing now. No one gives thought to their inner man or soul, everyone is trying to make a name for themselves in this life.

Answer 10

They were not mentioned because the writers did not know about their existence. This is also true of electricity, quantum theory, germs, bacteria, and anything else ancient man did not know about. It seems as though the Bible was inspired by their thoughts on God, but not so-much penned by the big guy. Fundies hate the use of logic because it always disproves the validity of their beliefs.

Answer 11

Prophecy and "Big T truth" are both approached in the bible with the shotgun method. The men who wrote the bible figured if they put down enough junk some of it would be correct. They just forgot to mention giant lizards.