Based on Job chapters 38 to 41 there is a reference in chapter 40 to a creature known as behemoth (vv.15-24) as this is an obvious reference to a specific animal. Can you make the connection?
2007-03-01 15:18:25 · 9 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is debatable if that is the case. However, some feel that the dinosaurs are the Leviathans that the Scripture mention in more than one place ( Job 3:8 also ) .( mythological figure in Job )
Although Leviathan is basically the same name used in the Ugaritaric documents about a mythological sea monster, it is no at all clear that Job 41:1 is a reference to a monster. Some commentators have proposed that this is a reference to a large crocodile, and the "Leviathan" is used to heighten the emphasis on its uncontrolability.
The identity of Leviathan, basically a translation of the Hebrew word for "sea monster" or " sea serpent" , is disputed. The traditional view is that it is a crocodile. As in the case of the behemoth ( 40:15-24 ), the description of Leviathan begins as a grand,poetic description of a wee-known, formidable beast. But by the time the description is complete ( vv 18-21 , Leviathan has become fire breathing dragon, powerful symbol of chaos, evil and destruction.Ultimately, Leviathan's image is a portrait of chaos at the beginning of God's creation and of Satan at the consummation of the ages (Ps. 72:2-17, Is 27:1, 51:9 ). Only God can control and destroy Leviathans.
2007-03-01 15:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many tried to fit a Nile crocodile into the "Behemoth" description because it sounded so weird, but what we have since learned from finding their bones leaves an herbivorous dinosaur as the only candidate that fits. People see an answer like this and then ask sarcastically, "Did Noah take dinosaurs on the ark?" Sure, hatchlings. Who says any of the animals had to be adults?
2007-03-01 23:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I was in a Masonic related organization called Jobs Daughters. I think I know alot of the teachings of this book. Dinosaurs was never one I came across.
2007-03-01 23:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Mommyk232 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago there was no dinosaurs in the book of Job Get real brothers and sisters. Praise God.
2007-03-01 23:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. It's generally accepted to be an appatosaurus (I'm sure I spelled that wrong, but oh well). I couldn't be a hippo or elephant because it was described as having a tail like a tree trunk or something to that affect. Ever seen an elephant's tail? How 'bout a hippo's? NOT like a tree trunk.
2007-03-01 23:38:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
It is either describing a fictitious animal or something modern like a Hippo.
In the middle ages they had stories of fire breathing dragons, but everyone knows know that they did not exist.
2007-03-01 23:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a behemoth is a water animal
2007-03-01 23:20:58 · answer #7 · answered by J D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
likely an apatasaurus
and the leviathan is also mention in Job
2007-03-01 23:22:08 · answer #8 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but everybody interprets the bible in different ways.
That's why it doesn't have much value.
2007-03-01 23:21:26 · answer #9 · answered by Born of a Broken Man 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋