why doesnt the bible talk about dinosaurs ,and what happened to them?

Answer 1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. This happened billions of years ago and during that time the dinosaurs lived and died.

Verse 2

And the earth was without form and void.

The King James "was" is the Hebrew "hayah" better rendered in this context as "became". The King James "without form" is the Hebrew "tohuw" better rendered as "Waste" or "vanity". The King James "void" is the Hebrew "bohuw" meaning "emptiness".

Since God does not create things in vain (Isaiah 45:18), we know that:

"The earth became vanity and emptyness..."

How?

Probably due to the rebellion of the one third of the angels.

From verse 2 forward is the RE-creation.

Adam and his wife were to RE-plenish the earth (Genesis 1:28).

It had been plenished before.

Answer 2

Those who believe in a younger age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does mention dinosaurs though it never actually uses the word “dinosaur.” Instead, it uses the Hebrew word tanniyn (pronounced tan-neen; Strong’s #08577). Tanniyn is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles; sometimes it’s “sea monster,” sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon.” The tanniyn appear to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and are found both on land and in the water.



In addition to mentioning these giant reptiles in general nearly thirty times throughout the Old Testament, the Bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. Behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail is likened to a cedar tree (Job 40:15ff). Some scholars have tried to identify Behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus. Others point out that elephants and hippopotamuses have very thin tails, nothing comparable to a cedar tree. Dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus and the Diplodocus on the other had huge tails which one could easily compare to a cedar tree.

Answer 3

There a references in biblical texts regarding unknown animals....also during the biblical story of creation...it doesn't specify what land and water creatures were created.

Interesting question...I found the sites below helpful.

taking into consideration the great possibility that the 6 day creation is a metaphor and other things like in the beginning there was "light" (i.e. big bang). In hebrew it's actually in "a" beginning, the implication here is that there have been many beginnings. We don't really know the timeline here and it would be foolish to believe it is the same way we reference time today in 24 hour increments. I don't really think people lived until they were 900, perhaps there was a different way of keeping time (like moon cycles or something). If you think about it the Hebrew Calendar (remember Genesis is a Jewish text) is a lunar and solar calendar and there are 13 months. Time can take a different perspective.

Some believe that the behemoth referenced in Job is describing a dinosaur.
"The Book of Job is one of the oldest books ever written. In it, God tells Job of his greatness as Creator and describes an animal, called Behemoth, as follows:

Behold now, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox. Behold now, his strength in his loins, And his power in the muscles of his belly. He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron. (Job 40:15–18)

Marginal notes in most Bibles speculate that Behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus, but those animals have tails like ropes. Behemoth had a “tail like a cedar.” Any animal with a tail as huge and strong as a cedar tree is probably a dinosaur. Job 40:19–24 describes this giant, difficult-to-capture animal as not alarmed by a raging river. If the writer of Job knew of a dinosaur, then the evolution position is wrong, and man saw dinosaurs.

The next chapter of Job describes another huge, fierce animal, a sea monster named Leviathan.3 It was not a whale or crocodile, because the Hebrew language had other words to describe such animals. Leviathan may be a plesiosaur (PLEE see uh sore), a large seagoing reptile that evolutionists say became extinct 60 million years before man evolved.
Consider the many dragon legends. Most ancient cultures have stories or artwork of dragons that strongly resemble dinosaurs.4 The World Book Encyclopedia states that:

The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man is supposed to have appeared on earth. Dragons were generally evil and destructive. Every country had them in its mythology.5

The simplest and most obvious explanation for so many common descriptions of dragons from around the world is that man once knew the dinosaurs.

What caused the extinction of dinosaurs? The flood. Because dinosaur bones are found among other fossils, dinosaurs must have been living when the flood began. There are dozens of other dinosaur extinction theories, but they all have recognized problems. Most of the food chain was buried in the flood. Therefore, many large dinosaurs that survived the flood probably had difficulty feeding themselves and became extinct. "

Answer 4

The Bible, God’s very special book (or collection of books, really), claims that each writer was supernaturally inspired to write exactly what the Creator of all things wanted him to write down for us so that we can know where we (and dinosaurs) came from, why we are here, and what our future will be. The first book in the Bible—Genesis—teaches us many things about how the universe and life came into existence. Genesis tells us that God created everything—the Earth, stars, sun, moon, plants, animals, and the first two people.

Although the Bible does not tell us exactly how long ago it was that God made the world and its creatures, we can make a good estimate of the date of creation by reading through the Bible and noting some interesting passages:

1. God made everything in six days. He did this, by the way, to set a pattern for mankind, which has become our seven day week (as described in Exodus 20:11). God worked for six days and rested for one, as a model for us. Furthermore, Bible scholars will tell you that the Hebrew word for day used in Genesis 1, can only mean an ordinary day in this context.

2. We are told God created the first man and woman—Adam and Eve—on Day Six. Many facts about when their children and their children’s children were born are given in Genesis. These genealogies are recorded throughout the Old Testament, up until the time of Christ. They certainly were not chronologies lasting millions of years.

As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth almost 2000 years ago, we come to the conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!), not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years.

Answer 5

Good question! Dinosaurs did exist but some millions of years ago. The most possible explanation is found in the account of creation where the Bible states ".......God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form; and void.Note here especially the word "was" as to my knowledge in the Greek it actually reads "became" It would therefore suggest that at one time the world was as we know it today and the Lord "renewed" the earth as at the point of renewing the earth was a shapeless mass and was totally dead. Up until this time Dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Answer 6

Because the guys who wrote the Bible had no idea about dinosaurs or what happened to them. You can't make up stories about something you didn't know existed.

Answer 7

The people who wrote the Bible didn't know about Dinosaurs. :) There will be many other surprises for all Bible believers in the future too

Answer 8

Because the Bible is re-written buy human themselves, and dinosaurs existed long before Adam was brought to Earth.

Answer 9

They were extinct before man starting writing things down. Astroids hitting the earth probably did them in. Who knows, it could have been anything that finally did them in. The bible doesn't talk about them because those people hadn't started digging up their bones and learning just what they were.
How can you write about something that you didn't know existed?
You can't. You can bet your bottom dollar that if someone had dug one up and put the bones together there would have been a really neat story in the bible to tell about it.

Answer 10

The Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs because they were all dead before man walked the earth and dinosaurs didn't write the Bible.

What happened to them is they died.