Just a query about God and the dinosaurs...?

Question

Did he make them and just forget to put them into the bible? God created the world in 7 days, finishing off with mankind. At what point did he create dinosaurs? What I want to know is do Christians believe that dinosaurs existed before man, simultaneously lived with man or never existed at all?

Answer 1

To deny the existance of dinosaurs would be as foolish as denying the existance of yesterday. We have fossils to prove this. So the question is - how does one explain it?

There are many theories that have been set forth on this interesting question. Some are as imaginative as labeling these fossils as the remains of demons who perished during the war in heaven and who were thrown to earth.

Others believe that the creation timeline is not literal. Even the bible itself states metaphorically that one day to man is as a thousand years to God. If God is a being who may transcend time, who in fact exists on every plain and realm of existance, then time has no meaning. It is very plausible that the Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth prior the the creation of Man and the creatures that God gave him dominion over.

It is also important to remember that the first four books of the bible were written by Moses. Prior to Moses' written record, all of the information was passed down by word of mouth and song. It is possible that some information wasn't passed along, and that only the critical information was passed down - as many things in Genesis seem to be "rushed" and incomplete. Surely more went on in the Garden of Eden than just the fall of Man, yet we don't have a record of them... not because nothing happened, but because it was not necessary to pass along. If Moses didn't know of the fossils, he had no reason to make mention of them.

There are even more theories, but you might get too bored reading about all of them in this forum. Keep your faith and focus on Christ, and the dinosaur answer will someday be shown to you when you ask your Savior and Lord, when you stand before Him and dine with Him in the everafter.

God bless you!

Answer 2

There is a mention of a dinosaur type creature in the Bible. In Job 40, it talks of a 'behemoth' with a tail 'like a cedar tree' that eats grass 'like an oxen'. Originally this was thought to be a rhino or a similar creature but is actually a dinosaur. This, in terms of Bible chronology happened after the Flood and Noah, so they must have been some young dinosaurs or their eggs on the Ark with Noah.
Also, many scholars believe that ancient and mediaeval texts referring to dragons may actually be referring to dinosaurs, at a time when the Greek word dinosaur was not used or known. The first use of the word dinosaur was around the 1850s, when the present systen of classification was being developed, and many new species were given names.
There is also an idea between both creationists and some scientists that dinosaurs may be hiding in unexplored forestland,which is plausible considering that we discover new species in places too dangerous to explore until now.

Answer 3

The Bible doesn't dwell on Dinosaurs because its not important. If you read the Bible at all you will notice that no creature is ever dwelt upon, only humanity and the Lord. But saying that there are a couple of references of two creatures within the Bible that people have pondered over. One is Leviathan and the other is Behemoth. These possible could be Dinosaurs, but nobody is sure.
This is a personal believe, and I'm prepared to be wrong. I believe that the dinosaurs weren't around millions of years ago, but I do believe they existed. I believe they where around maybe 10 to 20 thousand years ago and they got wiped out with the flood during the time of Noah. As I said I know that I could be wrong, but then again so could science.

Answer 4

There's so many stupid answers on here I can't give them all a rating. The dinosaurs died long before man was on earth. They only lived simultaneously in the movies.
If you are a bible lover THEY WERE ANIMALS and genesis says he created the animals. It doesn't say why we had to wait till the last day when all the other animals got preferential treatment.
He also created bugs twice according to genesis But I'll let that go because I don't believe any of it.
Carbon dating may not be that accurate but they never found any human remains that are even close enough in age to dinosaurs to be within the margin of error.
So many of you are showing how ignorant you are.You believe the bible and guess the rest.
Why is genesis the only part of the original bible that Christians believe?
The new testament is just a sequel. It should be called:
"Bible II The life and times of Jesus H Christ"
There's been another sequel since then.
The Mormons should be allowed to add the third testament to the bible.
If the bible was never written everything on earth would make a lot more sense. There would be less confusion.Maybe even less ignorant people.

Answer 5

Bible is a spiritual book not an archaeological book. God asked Moses things that are only important. If God asked Moses to write everything that took place during the creation, don't you wonder how many page bible would end up and do you think Moses can finish writing it since the CREATION TOOK BILLIONS OF YEARS.

God created the world in 7 days. True. BUT, there were HINTS in the bible why should we not believe that the 7 days mentioned was human days composed of 24 hours.

Genesis 1:5 spoke about 1st day. How come that it was called 1st day when sun and moon was only made on the fourth day? The answer is provided by II Peter 3:8,:

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

BUT, never be mistaken about this passage. It says one day is AS a thousand years. It doesn't say EQUAL. So, what does it means? God never feel boredome. 1 day is as 1000. 1 is as 1 billion....and so on.

So, the days mentions in Genesis is not 24 hours..well, no one knows how long it was. Only God knows. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

In fact, SCIENTIFICALLY, day is relative. A day is different when you are in Earth, different when you are in moon, different when you are in Jupiter;....

Now, when was the dinosaur created? I believe that it was on the 6th day as written in Genesis1:24-25. It was also written that they were created before man.

Answer 6

In the Bible large monstrous animals are mentioned, although it doesn't say the word dinosaurs, many believe that the monstrous animals mentioned are in fact dinosaurs.
Job 40: 15-18, 23 Job 41 Psa 74:14 Psa 104:26
There where also mentions of dragons that some believe were in fact dinosaurs.
The reason the word dinosaur isn't used is because the Bible was translated and written in the 1600's and the word dinosaur wasn't around until it was penned in the 1800's

Answer 7

I am a Christian - I believe God created the universe and all that's in it - but - I do not think 7 days in our time is necessarily God's timing - Archaeology tells us about dinosaurs and many other prehistoric creatures. Looking at how these creatures must have looked - I think God has a great sense of humour!! Archaeology also suggests that we came after the dinosaurs. I don't worry too much about it - all will be clear in the end.

Answer 8

First, if I said "the day of steam" or "the day of the mobile phone" would you think I was talking about literal "days, or periods of (ubdefined span) time? I hope you would think the latter.
Right, so when the bible says creation took seven days, it also does not mean literal days.
In this contesxt could not a creation day actually be millions of years?
This does not actually disprove evolution within certain limits, as species are evolving all the time. Look at the difference between cave man, and modern man.
This doesnot mean however that man came from monkeys.
On the fifth day God created animal (including monkeys, dinosaurs etc, but not neccesarily all together)
On the sixth day He created man.
Before you ridicule this answer, just think and meditate on it.

Answer 9

No....

Believe it or not.... the dinosaurs were created by Lucifer and God wiped out all of the dino's with a world flood before he (God) created Mankind. Man was to have dominion over all the world, therefore Man could not co-exist with such monstrosities.

The flood is evident in Gen. 1:2 & 9.....

There is no record of dinosaurs in the bible.

Answer 10

There's a lot of debate about this. i believe ultimately that the bible is true. Some take the bible creation story literally, while others take it figuratively. Whichever the case, the dinosaurs must have appeared before man did, since man only appeared on the 6th day. Its probably safe to assume that dinosaurs appeared together with all the other animals.

As for dating methods, there are numeous geologists that question the way fossils are dated. They can really be grossly off the real timeframe they appear in. So, even though its the only thing we have now(the dating method), it might not be entirely accurate. A good website discussing this topic is:

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~plaisted/ce/dating.html

For other general information, you can try:
http://www.megabaud.fi/~lampola/english/17evidences.html#12

To answer your question, dinosaurs, to me, were created before man, and probably have simultaneously lived with man.