Why doesn't the Bible mention anything about prehistoric beasts?

Question

Thank you all for your response. I was just curious and had asked several people at a study group and a preacher and could not get an answer. It in no way changes any beliefs I have .I just wanted to know and a lot of your answers make sense to me. So thanks again to this great group!

Answer 1

The Bible is not meant to be an all encompassing book on the history of civilization, mankind, the universe, or anything else. It is meant to be a guide for understanding God and attaining salvation. It is a book inspired by God, but written by man, and more importantly, assembled by man. Don't be surprised when you find certain details omitted or glossed over. Some of the Bible is literal, some is poetic (e.g. Psalms), some is allegorical, some is metaphorical (e.g. The Prodigal Son). There is not even a definition given for what constitutes a "day" in God's terms. Also, the Bible won't contain various scientific discoveries not understood at the time it was written (i.e. there won't be anything about embryonic stem cell research). There were many writings about God, Jesus, and other matters of the history of the Israelites, Romans, etc. that was omitted from the formalized embodiment that we know today as the Bible. It was not written at one time, and there was a substantial amount of controversy about what should be contained in it. It wasn't put together as one entity until the Council of Nicaea under Emperor Constantine. The important message of the Bible is the gift of salvation from Jesus and Jesus’ message to the world, which was love your neighbor and love God.

Answer 2

Because the people who wrote it were unaware of the existence of prehistoric beasts.

Now we are. It's called the progress of knowledge. It rather blows the bottom out of the idea that the biblical authors were "divinely inspired;" at least, if they were, God felt it prudent to leave a lot out, and to make statements which would later be disproved by research.

The people who jump through hoops trying to make the crude biblical cosmology jibe with what we now know from science are worse than the outright "literalists." "Leviathan" was not a dinosaur, OK? Any more than the "Nephilim" were aliens, or the Ark of the Covenant was an early air hockey table.

Answer 3

At the time the bible was written people did not know about prehistoric beast. The Bible could hardly mention something it was not aware of. Even had the bible known about prehistoric beast why would it mention them the bible is about religion having nothing to do with prehistoric beast or events.

Answer 4

Wow!! I think we went a whole hour that time without this question coming up. That has to be a record.

The Bible is concerned with only one subject - God's plan of salvation for man. As the existence of dinosaurs millions of years ago has nothing to do with that subject - why mention it?

With the scriptures already running across 66 books with over 3.6 million words, it would be pointless to add even more about creatures that (according to current evolutinary theory) did not exist at the time of the Bible, and never interacted man.

But actually, there are references to creatures that appear to match the description of "dinosaurs" (a word that did not exist in the late 1800's, so it is not in the KJ Bible translated in the 1600s). They are referred to as "great sea creatures" in Genesis 1. They are referred to as leviathan and behemoth in Job, Psalms and Isaiah, and also as "dragons" (the word used until dinosaurs was invented).

Answer 5

Because the Bible is fictitious. It was written as a way for self-anointed priests to control the masses. Plus, the didn't know about dinosaurs, and since there was no real god conveying the origin of the Earth to the 'scholars', they didn't write about them.

Answer 6

Because they never did know that fossils even existed. Remember, people became interested in fossils only in the 18th century I believe. Even then there were two theories, one of evolution and the other was that God created life by trial and error, until He fell on the final version ! Of course this is nonsense !

Answer 7

For the same reason it doesn't mention subatomic particles, the continent of America, or the telephone: the people who wrote the Bible didn't know about these things.

It's pretty easy to understand this if you're willing to accept the truth.

Answer 8

The Bible has a theme.
Like any good book, it sticks to theme.
Prehistoric beasts are not part of the theme ....although,
Genesis 1:21 refers to:
"the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. . ."
Granted, that is but a general reference.
The book of Job refers to Leviathan and Behemoth.
We don't call any animals by those names these days, but all that means is there was a name change.

Answer 9

It does. Have not read the book of Genesis? When Adam and Eve were in the Garden, Eve was tempted of a snake. God reprimanded the snake for tempting Eve as he did and told him that from then on he would relegated to crawling on the ground. Now, instead of huge dinosaurs roaming the earth, we have snakes, lizards, and turtles. All relegated to crawl on the ground.

This all implies that the snake did not slither before that point.

Answer 10

Actually it does. Dinosaurs are not called "Dinosaurs" because that word didn't exist when the Bible was written. They used the word, "Dragon" instead. Job talks about the leviathan in his book and it's also mentioned in the Psalms and Isaiah. They're mentioned both in the Bible and throughout many cultures and artifacts.