Behemoth Job 40:15-24
It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.”
Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
“ HE IS THE FIRST OF THE WAYS OF GOD.”
“He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
2006-12-09 13:13:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The concept would contradict the whole concept of the bible. What do you realy think it is talking about?
2006-12-09 13:15:53 · answer #1 · answered by Your hero until you meet Jesus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like how you came in mid-verse to clip out the beginning. "Look at the behemoth, which I have made ALONG WITH YOU". Also, in other translations, the line you pointed out reads "He ranks first among the works of God, yet his Maker can approach him with his sword." It would be kind of pointless to say, "I made him first, but I can tame him." That's not what's really being said. The whole reason He used a dinosaur there was that it was one of the greatest of His creations, and it still obeyed Him. The dinosaur wasn't first, it was just physically greater than the others.
2006-12-12 18:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by stickymongoose 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. You assume that scripture is a reliable source
2. There were some huge mammalian behemoths long after the dinosaurs and such a description could easily fit some of them
3. Your description could fit an elephant, a rhino or a hippo.
2006-12-09 13:18:22 · answer #3 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are you bible worshippers out of your cotton picken mind? What about all the huge carnivorous dinosaurs who ate everything in sight?
If man ever coexisted with dinosaurs, man wouldn't now exist because he would have been eaten and stompted on.
jesus freak above me sees the bible as a 'concept piece'.
2006-12-09 13:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What says I'm less studied in biblical matters then you, ignorant fool
2006-12-12 15:10:57 · answer #5 · answered by Greyboy's Ghost 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋