1. All of the basic “kinds” of living creatures were brought into existence in the same initial creation week. Moses wrote: ”. . . in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is . . .” (Ex. 20:11). This would include the dinosaurs (“terrible lizards”), and man as well.
2. Jesus affirmed that mankind has existed “from the beginning of the creation” (Mk. 10:6); this certainly excludes the notion that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before man appeared upon the planet.
3. Humanity was given dominion over all the lower creatures of the earth (Gen. 1:26). There is no reason to exclude dinosaurs from the scope of this passage....
Behemoth in the Book of Job
There seems to be a reference to dinosaurs in the book of Job.
What do you think?
Thank you...
2007-02-28 22:06:21 · 11 answers · asked by The Truth 2.0 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems odd to imagine Jesus Christ as a hunter, and there seems little basis upon which to suppose he hunted any game. In any event, larger species of animal would have become extinct during the Noachian Flood, thousands of years before Jesus came to the earth.
1. While the bible does use the term "day" to describe the six major divisions of chronology during creation, it seems that those six "days" must have spanned many thousands or millions or billions of years. There is no reason to assume that Jehovah intended for every (or any) species of dinosaur to survive until Adam's creation, or to Jesus' time on the earth.
2. Regarding what Jesus said at Mark 10:6 ("However, from the beginning of creation ‘He made them male and female.'"), one would have to be intentionally obtuse to insist that Jesus meant anything but a paraphrase of Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 5:2.
(Genesis 1:27) And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
(Genesis 5:2) Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man in the day of their being created.
3. If any species of dinosaur survived until Adam's creation, of course Adam would have had "dominion" over those animals. In fact, that must be acknowledged as a possibility, however unlikely.
(Genesis 1:21) God proceeded to create the great sea monsters ...and every winged flying creature [rather than "birds"]
There is no reason to hold the bible to any modern standards or definitions of the term "dinosaur". Interestingly, some bibles translate Job 40:15 to read "hippopotamus" rather than "Behemoth". The illustrative language in the next few verses certainly applies to this animal.
(Job 40:15-18) Here, now, is Behemoth that I have made as well as you. Green grass it eats just as a bull does. Here, now, its power is in its hips, And its dynamic energy in the tendons of its belly. It bends down its tail like a cedar; The sinews of its thighs are interwoven. Its bones are tubes of copper; Its strong bones are like wrought-iron rods.
2007-03-01 06:08:40 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Humans first appeared about 3-4 million years ago. Dinosaurs died out 65 milllion years ago. Humans and Dinosaurs had absolutly no contact with eachother, ever.
So, no. Just like every other human, Jesus did not hunt any type of dinosaur.
2007-02-28 23:06:48 · answer #2 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible because the people who were writing the word of God didn't know that they existed.
2007-02-28 22:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When Dinosaurs and Jesus walked the Earth!...Do you think he had a big club?...I don't mean the same kind of big club that he has now of course.
2007-02-28 22:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Math says that dinosaurs are older than the bible
2007-02-28 22:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by Four Eyes 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a work of fiction. I wouldn't read too much into it. Dinosaurs and humans never co-existed.
2007-02-28 22:10:18 · answer #6 · answered by Neilos 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jesus hunted raptors... by "rapturing" himself up into the air with a spear.
2007-02-28 22:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by Loathe thy neighbor. 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
it wasn't six days literaly 2Peter 3:8
'....But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.'
2007-02-28 22:14:32 · answer #8 · answered by ekduin 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure!!!
Then He Hunted YOU!!!
Wahoo!!!
2007-02-28 22:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think anyone who takes young earth creationism seriously has fear and/or sexual issues.
2007-02-28 22:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋