I believe in God, but I was just wondering about why the Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs, because we have proof that they existed with fossils.
2006-09-17 15:52:26 · 16 answers · asked by *~HoNeYBeE~* 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good question - here is another one - How many animals are not mentioned in the Bible? LOTS - but this is a question that will be answered on judgment day!
Thanks for the good question!
2006-09-17 15:58:29 · answer #1 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? the answer may be in Job 40: 15, 24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called behemoth. Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo's tail isn't like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all the creatures God made, was plant eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.
2006-09-17 22:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by Jason M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sad to say honey, but the Bible was written by a bunch of supersticious people a long time ago, who did not have the technology & resources to prove that the earth was, in fact, a place of great evolution over billions of years of time before them.
The Bible was written as a way of explaining something that they did not know the answers to, as we do now.
They simply wrote down what they "Knew" at the time & left it to thier followers to draw thier own conclusions through future generations.
The people that made up the Bible did not know anything about the Dinosaurs because they had been extinct for millions of years before the evolution of man took place.
Only recently have human beings been able to have the technology & resorces to dig beneath billions of years of soil & unearth bones & fossils of creatures that prove that there was, in fact, life on earth millions of years before the Bible states there was.
The people who wrote the Bible simply did not know about what the world was like before the dawn of man or even how man came to be, so they drew thier own conclusions & wrote them down for others to follow in future generations.
I am not saying that they did it for sinister purposes, I think they honestly did not know, & did what any self-respecting person at the time would have done: formed thier own theories & wrote them down for others to follow.
2006-09-17 23:09:38 · answer #3 · answered by Lauren C.: Led-head 4 (∞) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is the written record of God's workings among two groups of people: the people of ancient Israel and those people that lived in the time of Jesus and shortly afterwards. The Bible records how people perceived thier relationship with God, how they lived lives of righteousness, how they understood relationships with fellow human beings ought to be conducted and many other aspects of worship and holiness.
Yes, dinosaurs existed. However, the Bible is sacred scripture, not a science book and it does not need to discuss them.
2006-09-17 23:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In genesis there is reference to a beast called a behemoth that many biblical scholars have asserted were the one and only mention of dinosaurs in the bible.
2006-09-17 22:56:58 · answer #5 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does somewhere in dueterometry( sorry cant spell) I can look it up for you.My hypothesis is that after the flood the climate changed causing some animals to die and some animals could of died on the ark making it impossible to reproduce.Don't hold me to it I just think that's what happened. I will ask God for you when I go to see Him
2006-09-17 22:57:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Job chapter 41.
2006-09-17 22:58:40 · answer #7 · answered by parepidemos_00 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dinosaurs are not relevent to our salvation. many animals were not mentioned in the bible. some extinct, some not extinct.
2006-09-17 23:01:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wasn't very much knowledge about the pre-history of the Earth at that point of time. So there was no way the PEOPLE that wrote it could've known.
2006-09-17 22:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by Big Daddy T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Behemoth and Leviathon are mentioned...they are believed to be dinosaurs of that age.
2006-09-18 00:51:02 · answer #10 · answered by belle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋