Where are the dinosaurs in the bible?

Question

I have difficulty with the scripture because of its errors.

I think the "origin" of life is too complex a matter for the human mind to grasp. I think the truth lies somewhere in the positing that there is no beging nor end. (like energy - cant be created nor destroyed).
Try teaching a gorilla algebra!

Answer 1

The dinosaurs were in their fossil form.

Answer 2

Some people think Job 41:1, NIV, is talking about dinosaurs. "Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?” Or Job 40:15, “Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.“ There are many other verses in the Bible about dragons that are considered references about dinosaurs, as well. Most Bible scholars suggest that the descriptions in Job are of crocodiles or of hippopotamus. Both lived in the Near East in those days. It is tempting to think that dragons are a faded memory of dinosaurs, but we cannot be sure. We can only speculate.

Answer 3

Job 40:15-19

There are 3 heaven and earth ages, same heaven and earth but different ages.

II Pet.3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS
Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

To that earth age the world that then was, belongs all fossils and remains. Scientific estimates or guesses; universe or heavens 20 billion years old, earth 4.6 billion years old, moon 200 to 300 million years younger than earth, dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, Ice Age 2.5 million years ago.
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BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER PERISHED
Gen.1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

AND THE EARTH WAS
The word “was” (hayah) in Hebrew, was not distinguished by the Revisers, that is the verb “to be” from “to become”. The same Hebrew word “hayah” is translated “became” in Gen.2:7.
AND THE EARTH BECAME

WITHOUT FORM H8414 tohu (to'-hoo) From an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain: - confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

VOID H922 bohu (bo'-hoo) From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, that is, (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin: - emptiness, void.
AND THE EARTH BECAME DESOLATE AND EMPTY
Earth was not created that way but became desolate and empty due to Satan’s rebellion. A global overflowing of water, but not Noah’s deluge. Darkness was upon the (face) of the deep, in other words the whole earth.
Into this we can read; dinosaur extinction, destruction of Atlantis, breakup of Gondwana Land, and the Ice Age.
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BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW
Gen.1:2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen.1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

About 63 A.D. Peter writes, the heavens and the earth which are now. The heaven and earth age we are in now, today.
BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE
RESERVED UNTO FIRE
AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN
PERDITION G684 apoleia (ap-o'-li-a) From a presumed derivative of G622; ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal): - damnable (-nation), destruction, die, perdition, X perish, pernicious ways, waste.
Some will perish eternally and not see the third heaven and earth age.

Answer 4

Genesis 1:20-25

Answer 5

The word "dinosaur" was first invented, coined, and used in 1841. Therefore it is not in the Bible.

However, dinosaur-like creatures clearly are mentioned and described in the Bible!

You can find other names for large creatures ... creatures with a tails like cedar trees, etc.

Large creatures which quite probably were what we call "dinosaurs".

behemoth, Leviathan, and tanniyn

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You say you have "difficulty with the scripture because of its errors". Perhaps the difficulty is with your errors in understanding the Bible?

Answer 6

Unicorns? I haven't read that in my Bible. Dinosaurs, yes.

The origin of life is complex and miraculous. It's amazing to think that God created life out of nothing just by speaking. You might be interested in the book "The Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel. It's quite interesting.

Answer 7

Personally. I don't believe dinosaures ever existed but very large beasts did. My question is How do scientists know the names of so-called dinos? How are they going to just name a dino when they find new bones. Makes no sense. Anyway, God created the heavens and the earth and every living creature, creeping, crawling, in the sea and land. How else did they get here? I guess a person has to truelly believe in God before they can possibly believe anything else.

Answer 8

If you have concerns about errors in the bible, study them and find out if there are answers to your concerns other than throwing the baby out with the bath water. I had similar concerns when I first became a christian and with studying each individual question I had, i discovered, it wasn't a problem with the bible, but a problem either with the translating a extremely complex language into a much simpler one or with my understanding of what I thought I knew about the bible. Also God lives outside His creation. He is not subject to the laws of thermodynamics.

Answer 9

Yes, but they weren't called "Dinosaurs". That words wasn't created until the 1800s.

Consider this is Job...
1. Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
2. Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

An enormous sea beast.

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.

Sounds like a Bracheosaur or similar.

There is also mention of dragons. They would have even made it on the Ark in the form of eggs or adolescents.

Sure. They're in there! Isn't that cool and exciting?

Answer 10

The Scriptures are inerrant in history, doctrine and ethics. If you can prove otherwise, please do so.

Job 40:15 -24, Job 41:1 - 10

The laws of thermodynamics reveal that the universe did have a beginning and will therefore, have an end.

Answer 11

Where are elephants listed, where are dogs mentioned, where are jellyfish spoken of? Not everything alive is listed in the bible.

Ofcourse, there is the behemoth in the bible, could be described as a dinosaur, or could be a rino. Hard to tell.