where did dinosaurs come from religionwise?

Question

Me and my brother have been talking alot about the bible and dinosaurs lately. He's really skeptical about the bible and there has to be logic behing everything and me on the other hand I'm more with Faith. But this one question of his has me stuck. I believe dinosaurs did roam the earth but then why are they not mentioned ANYWHERE in the bible!

Answer 1

What I'm about to say will be very controversial in Yahoo.
Genesis says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and..."
You know the rest.
But if you use a good concordance and bible dictionary, you will see that the word translated "created", is more acurately translated "re-created". Ouch.
Not many Sunday school teachers do the homework to learn that the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah speak about people who were on the earth before Adam. In the book of Hebrews, Paul says they were subject to angels. In other words, angels ran the place. Today, angels are subject to people.

The books also talk about a great rebellion that caused an enormous catastaphe. It was the rebellion that caused the angel Lucifer to be cast down, and it plummeted the world into a sort-of reverse evolution and into spiritual darkness. The darkness lasted for eons and God had nothing to do with it. The bible says God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. Dinosaurs walked the earth during that time. The bible also says that with the Lord, a thousand years is like a day, and a day is like a thousand years. That is a clue.

When God was ready, he recreated the heavens and the earth when the Spirit of God moved over the darkness.

You won't find this in Sunday school. Not many preachers are interested in doing the research. But it is there if you wish to find it.

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Answer 2

I am a degreed Theologian my friend, and will do my best to answer this excellent question you presented. In Genesis 6:4 the word "giants" is mentioned. Before I begin to give an explanation, let me inform you that the word "dinosaur" is a term that was penned long after the Bible was completely written, and what is why the word isn't "found" in the Scriptures. When reading Genesis 6:4 we need to be careful not to mix the context at the beginning of that verse with that which follows. Allow me to explain: The verse reads: "There were giants in the Earth in those days; (then it reads)..."and also AFTER THAT (the key word is "after"). The "giants" being referred to here are in fact the "dinosaurs". But notice very carefuly that the text reads, "AFTER THAT". Many so-called arrogant scientist have tried to explian "where" the dinosaurs have gone and what contributed to their destruction. But if anyone studies the Word of God with an open eye and heart filled with spiritual understanding, it will become clear that the dinosaurs were exterminated in the great waters of the world-wide flood in the days of Noah. In reading Genesis 6:4, two subjects are being presented between the first and second halves of the verse. I study the Bible from the Original languages (Hebrew of the OT and Greek of the NT)...and in the Hebrew of the OT on Genesis 6:4, this context is clearly divided and can't go without being clearly noticed by anyone knowing the Hebrew tongue. The "translation" however, mixes the contexts of this important verse so that it "appears" to be talking about the same issue. Here is my personal e-mail address, which I invite you to use as often and as freely as you like, should any other questions about God's great and eternal Book should come to your mind. My e-mail is: [e-mail] Please use it as often as you have need. Your friend in Christ our Saviour,

Larry A. Maynard II, Th.M; Th.D

Answer 3

I'm really sorry about not remembering the passage, but there is a verse or two in the book of Job that mentions large creatures of some kind, and it may refer to kinds of dinosaurs. Maybe a sauropod.

But, generally, I tend to think that the dinosaurs went out in the flood. They probably didn't fit in Noah's ark, and maybe they weren't really part of God's great plan anyway.

Also, some people take the Creation story metaphorically, and consider that 1 day might actually mean 1 massive segment of time where God used evolution or something else to watch things become created. By that theory, dinosaurs could have come and gone before the "day" God created Adam.

Answer 4

Wiki steps in with an answer that takes care of your question of dinosaurs in the bible. Almost typed in Biblical Dinosaurs but that is a whole other theological discussion of religion.

Some Jews and Christians believe that dinosaurs appear in the Old Testament, and regard this as evidence that the animals were still alive during early human history.

As it is a modern coinage, the Bible does not use the word "dinosaur", but the Hebrew word tanniyn (/tan·ˈnin/) may be interpreted as referring to them. In English translations, tanniyn may be translated as “sea monster” or “serpent”, but it is usually translated as “dragon”. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and are found both on land and in the water. At another point, the Bible describes a huge creature called a "behemoth" (Job 40:15-24) whose "tail sways like a cedar"; the behemoth is described as ranking "first among the works of God" and as impossible to capture (vs. 24). Some Biblical scholars identify the behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus, but these animals have very thin tails that are not comparable to a cedar tree. Creationists therefore identify the behemoth with dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus which had huge tails.[1] Critics point out that the tail is described as swaying like a cedar, not being as large as a cedar.

The Leviathan is another creature referred to in the Bible's Old Testament; it is described as having a variety of dinosaur, dragon, and water-serpent-like characteristics.

Answer 5

The term dinosaur wasn't coined until the 1800's. The Bible was written long before than.

There are many references to "dinosuars" in the Bible. The most famous is Job 40, where Job confronts God. if you also read in Genesis, when God created the world, he created the "great beasts". Those beasts would probably have been dinosaurs.

Answer 6

The bible makes OCCASIONAL references to monsters, especially in the ocean. Some Biblical types that have no idea of how geology works will try to convince you that this proves dinosaurs coexisted with humans. The bible makes numerous references to cows and sheep, so you’d think that such significant beasts as dinosaurs would be mentioned in SOME sort of detail.

But then the bible is full of self contradictions that make it IMPOSSIBLE to read it as an absolutely true collection of writings. See the website at http://www.evilbible.com/Biblical%20Contradictions.htm

Answer 7

The bible states that God created Earth in 6 days about 6-7,000 years ago. Science states the Earth has been here for millions upon millions of years. I see a flaw in Christianity!

Answer 8

Dinosaurs just never caught the spirit fever. Perhaps that is why they were all extinct several million years prior to the events recorded in the Bible. They made God so mad for ignoring him, He blasted them from the planet.

Answer 9

Because the middle eastern farmers who wrote the bible betweem 3000 and 1000 years ago had never heard of dinosaurs.

Or Australia. So how did kangaroos and koalas get on the ark?

Answer 10

Yeah, they are mentioned a few times, just not as dinosaurs.