The bible does mention DINOSAURS!?

Question

the bible does mention dinosaurs... just thought i would share because i always see someone asking why the bible never mentioned it =)

The word “dinosaur” was originally coined in 1841, more than three thousand years after the Bible first referred to “Tanniyn.” (Tanniyn is mention as a dragon but can also be translated as serpent,” “sea monster,” “dinosaur,” “great creature,” and “reptile.”)

The bible specifically talks about the Behemoth and Leviathan

here it is from the bible...

Behemoth(brachiosaurus) has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24:
It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang 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.”

Does anyone disagree that the bible does not mention Dinosaurs?

Answer 1

No, I don't disagree. You are correct, the word dinosaur was made up long after. I have told someone else that God didn't waste time talking about every single thing He created because the bible was not meant for me to study the animal kingdom. It was written for humans to have direction for life and to find out about salvation.

Answer 2

NO and there are quite a lot of other animals, the remains of which have been found, which were also not mentioned in the bible. For some peculiar reason it is the lack of the word dinosaur which troubles people but not the lack of the word giraffe or elephant. I don't believe that dodo is mentioned either but we know they existed - once.

Answer 3

Only the illusion-friendly brain of man can interpret spam to be prime rib. The Bible would be much more valid were it written clearly and plainly, and were God to appear in the sky JUST ONCE and tell us all how real he is.

It could also be taken more seriously if there was ANY valid historical record of the most important savior to ever walk the planet: Jesus.

It might also be more convincing if science hadn't trumped religion at every turn over the past several hundred years. The church fought tooth and nail against those who suggested that the Earth revolved around the sun. Some who suggested such were forced to recant or they were tortured and executed.

Answer 4

The topic of dinosaurs in the Bible is part of a larger ongoing debate within the Christian community over the age of the earth, the proper interpretation of Genesis, and how to interpret the physical evidences we find all around us. Those who believe in an older age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does not mention dinosaurs, because according to their paradigm, dinosaurs died out millions of years before the first man ever walked the earth. The men who wrote the Bible down couldn’t have seen dinosaurs alive.

Those who believe in a younger age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does mention dinosaurs though it never actually uses the word “dinosaur.” Instead, it uses the Hebrew word tanniyn (pronounced tan-neen; Strong’s #08577). Tanniyn is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles; sometimes it’s “sea monster,” sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon.” The tanniyn appear to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament and are found both on land and in the water.

In addition to mentioning these giant reptiles in general nearly thirty times throughout the Old Testament, the Bible describes a couple of creatures in such a way that some scholars believe the writers may have been describing dinosaurs. Behemoth is said to be the mightiest of all God’s creatures, a giant whose tail is likened to a cedar tree (Job 40:15ff). Some scholars have tried to identify Behemoth as either an elephant or a hippopotamus. Others point out that elephants and hippopotamuses have very thin tails, nothing comparable to a cedar tree. Dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus and the Diplodocus on the other had huge tails which one could easily compare to a cedar tree.

Nearly every ancient civilization has some sort of art depicting giant reptilian creatures. Petroglyphs, artifacts and even little clay figurines found in North America resemble modern depictions of dinosaurs. Rock carvings in South America depict men riding Diplodocus-like creatures and, amazingly, bear the familiar images of Triceratops-, Pterodactyl- and Tyrannosaurus Rex-like creatures. Roman mosaics, Mayan pottery and Babylonian city walls all testify to man’s trans-cultural, geographically-unbounded fascination with these creatures. Sober accounts like those of Marco Polo’s Il Milione mingle with fantastic tales of treasure-hoarding beasts. Modern day reports of sightings persist though they are usually treated with overwhelming skepticism.

In addition to the substantial amount of anthropic and historical evidences for the coexistence of dinosaur and man, there are other physical evidences, like the fossilized footprints of humans and dinosaurs found together at places in North America and West-Central Asia.

Answer 5

The lack of education in America is astounding. The USA currently has to import REAL scientists from Europe and Asia because so many Americans think Adam and Eve rode Dinosaurs to Church on Sunday and the Flintstones is a documentary.

No, there are no Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible.

But there are talking snakes, and apparently you don't know that there is no such thing.

Answer 6

People of biblical times had absolutely no concept of dinosaurs. On the few occasions when a giant bone was unearthed, they attributed it to a lost race of giant humans, not to extinct giant reptiles. There are a few passages describing known animals of their day, like the hippopotamus and crocodile, which some people misinterpret as references to dinosaurs, a clear impossibility.

Answer 7

Sounds more like one of the MEN who wrote the Bible stumbled across the bones and decided to write about it. It still doesn't explain the obvious error in the Bible which says that the Earth was created in less than a week.

Answer 8

It sounds more like an elephant.
Since people weren't around when dinosaurs were living, but were when elephants and whales were, it must those that it speaks of.

I'm sorry, but if this a Creationist thing where the world was created 6,000 years ago, with fossils in place, I must bow out due to scientific knowledge and common sense.

Answer 9

Oh that's wonderful Dear. You have such a great imagination, can you also tell us where in the Bible are computers mentioned ? Some people are still scared to use them and think they might be instruments of the devil because computers are not in the Bible.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 10

And yet it entire fails to explain how evolutions has placed them at pre-dating Human civilisation by more than 200 million years, and why there isn't even any mention of Human sub-species like the Neanderthal.

Perhaps they were part of god's draft design of Humans, while he was still learning sculture?