2006-11-13 05:49:54 · 11 answers · asked by burny mc 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genesis speaks to the creation of Earth. We know that these animals roamed the earth. Yet, the bible makes no mention of their existence.
2006-11-13 09:32:25 · update #1
No the word "dinosaur" is not in the bible. Neither is kangaroo, or hippopotamus. But, check out Job 40:15-18
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Sounds like a dinosaur to me.
2006-11-13 05:57:33 · answer #1 · answered by pohustla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've also been plagued by that very same question. If the knowledge given to those who wrote the Bible was indeed all knowing there should have been some reference to those creatures that were the masters of the planet milleniums before humans existed. As you already know, human beings did not co-exist with dinosaurs since we are a relatively new species. There is also no mention of the ice age that wiped out all life on earth when an asteroid smashed into our planet, sending vast amounts of dust and debris into the atmosphere, effectively blocking out the sun and dropping the earth's climate. I guess according to the Bible, none of this is relevant.
2006-11-13 05:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as how Dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man even walked this Earth, it is not a stretch to understand why they are not. The people of this time were not exposed to this type of knowledge about their planet at the time. They even thought the planet was flat back then.
2006-11-13 05:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may actually be.
I have heard it hypothesized, and not unintelligently, that some of the rumors of giants in the OT stemmed from really really large bones (that we now know to be dinosaur) that might have gotten unearthed in various ways. They wouldn't have had the science or the ability to put them back together to see what they had made, and given the immense amount of time, its not like they would have had any idea or models to go by.
2006-11-13 06:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are--maybe. Read Job--there's a whole section on the "behemoth" and the "leviathan" that sounds a lot like a description of a dinosaur.
2006-11-13 05:58:04 · answer #5 · answered by elwing 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now tell us why there would be dinosaurs in the bible, like your just kidding right ?.
2006-11-13 05:57:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, it's because the christian god was not born when dinosaurs were around and the society in which he was living was inferior to ours scientifically speaking.
2006-11-13 06:16:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word dinosaur was not created until c. 1730's. years after the bible was written.
2006-11-13 05:53:21 · answer #8 · answered by Kenneth G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same reason there are no llamas in the hockey hall of fame
It is not relevant to the context of what is being told
2006-11-13 05:56:07 · answer #9 · answered by judge_smails_sir 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you maybe want to place your question in the Mythology section ?
Next time put such a question in the correct catagory
2006-11-13 05:53:24 · answer #10 · answered by Thomas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋