Dinosaurs..?

Question

OK I am a religous person, I believe in God and what the Bible says. Well in the Bible there is no mention of anything close to Dinosours. In the beginging when God made everthing, there is no mention of dinosours. And after Christ death and the A.D. time period started, complex civilitations began to grow. Leaving no room for dinosours anywhere in history. Yet we find fossiles of them. When do they fit into history? and How?

All I am asking is how they fit in because when all of the creatures were created there is nothing that even closely resembles dinosours. In you can be polite and tell me where it says anything resembling them or what you think.

I know that there were complex civiliztions before Jesus I was just talking about MORE advanced civilizations.

Answer 1

When 'creatures that move along the ground' are mentioned in Genesis (1:24), on the sixth day, people (like me) who believe in the day-age theory of creation believe that this terminology refers to the dinosaurs. (Keep in mind though, that millions of year could have elapsed between the beginning of 'day' six and the end of 'day' six).

Hope that helps! God bless!

Answer 2

Dinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.

According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’

Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” (the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim′] ) Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.
We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29, LXX). Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.—Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:14.

Answer 3

The bible doesn't specifically list any of the creatures that were created. Lions and bears and several others are talked about throughout the bible. So why is that? Apparently, all of them were just a part of nature. Dinosaurs aren't even mentioned in older secular texts because the term is recent. Evolution brought the term into being. We have scientists claiming new discoveries almost everyday now. It's ridiculous and laughable because one discovery discredits others. Amazing what notoriety does to people. You need to look through the smoke. So called dinosaurs are large reptiles. Put large into context. In Pre-Flood days everything lived long. Look at all the mammoth elephants frozen in ice. They claim they're from the same period of time. They're basically hairy elephants. So what! There are not very many large reptiles found even today. Most are small. And even today we have Komodo dragons which are large lizards. Don't worry about the large reptiles that are called modern day dinosaur. But do note where all the fossil finds are -- in low lands where water flows into. Interesting thing since we believe most species were destroyed in the flood. Another thing to remember, our modern day understanding of dinosaurs, what they ate and what they did, is based on what modern day men tell us. They weren't around to make observations whereas those who wrote history were. Modern day man can't even agree on T-Rex - veg or meat eater?

The evidence does not support these suppositions. Do you believe God whose word has not changed since it was written or man who is always flip-flopping and creating justification for their sin?

Answer 4

Dinosaurs never existed. If you look at the so called fossils you'll realize that all they can show you are small pieces of bones that fit into enormous hand made structures. Have you ever been to a prehistoric museum? It's the biggest con you could imagine. Don't believe everything you're told. There were no dinosaurs and no millions of years before man. God just created the world as it's written in the Bible.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible, mostly in the Book of Job. They are not called Dinosaurs, they are called Behemoths and Leviathans. They existed at the same time as man. There are footprints of a man and a Dinosaur walking side by side and overlapping each other for miles in Glen Rose, Texas. Most of them died during the Great Flood about 4000 years ago. If you want to see the truth, go to wwwdrdino.com or www.creationevidence.org

Answer 6

I'm a religious person, too. But I think that not everything (i.e., the entire recoridng of history) could be captured in the Bible. I mean, we know that other civilizations existed with hthe Hebrews in the Bible, right? Yet, we know nothing about their entire culture if we strictly looked at the Bible. In Genesis, when it explains that God created animals prior to creating Adam, I like to think that those animals included dinosaurs, and other pre-human creatures. I mean, how did humans (or Adam for that matter) know what was really created before Adam was created if Adam wasn't there to witness God Working, with the exception of God creating Eve? Also, the Torah (first five books of the Bible) are considered to be written by Moses, many generations after Adam was created. Who's to say that by the time the story got down to him that he left out the trivial stuff like dinosaurs, and only put in the important stuff?
Who knows, God could have just as easily wiped dinosaurs out with a flood (before he created new animals and man) like He did to all of the sinners when he told Noah to create the ark and load it with his family and animals. All that should matter is that they existed at one time, and God had to have created them, probably before we humans were around.

Answer 7

You've kind of skipped the complex civilisations that came Before Christ. The ones that, apart from anything else, meant there was a Pharaoh to enslave Moses, and a Roman Empire to have some regional governor call a census so Joseph and Mary would go to Bethlehem.
Let's just continue to ignore the millions of years prior to that, that the earth existed.
I'm not being mean here, I'm pointing out simple facts from a kid's history book.
If you don't want to believe in dinosaurs, fine.
Just try and get you human historical facts a little straighter, okay.

Answer 8

The answer is in the first 2 verses of the Bible.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Period, end of sentence. It does not say how long ago.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Verse 2 in the Hebrew reads,
And the earth became waste and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

God destroyed the first earth age due to Satan's rebellion.

Answer 9

Friend if you actually read the bible correctly In Gen 1:28 God told Adam to REPLINISH the earth The same thing He told Noah in Gen. 9, Now in 1st Cor. 6:1-3 Does it not appear to you that the Saints shall judge the world, Know ye not that the saints shall even judge the angls(fallen Angels) 2nd Pter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned But cast them down to hell & delivered them into chains of darkness To be reserved unto Jusgement. now in Revelation 20 :3-15 Everything that was chained in hell at the great white throne judgement, God will bring them up to be judged by the saints. And they ALL will be cast into the lake of fire, Satan, Fallen angels, Hell, The wicked dead, & Death will be cast into the lake of fire to be destroyed.. Need anymore scriptures. I have them.

Answer 10

The bible was written by people who had no knowledge of anything outside of their small part of the world. If they would have found very large bones in that area, their superstitious minds would have told them the bones were from giants.
Remember, the writers of the bible stories were ordinary men with no knowledge of science. Their entire lives were spent in grubbing out a living in a very poor area. There was never enough to eat. Next to thinking about their food supply, was their superstitious imaginations.
Every rock had evil spitits hiding behind it. Everyone suspected of neighbors casting evil spells on them. If a person glanced at another, he was "overlooking you".
It was great times for run-away imaginations, but nobody imagioned dinosaurs.

Answer 11

This earth in millons of years old.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Did it say when the beginning was? No

Dinosaurs are Job 40

Job 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

He eats grass as an ox.

Job 40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Job 40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

What, he has a tail like a CEDAR tree. What has a tail like a mightly cedar tree today? Nothing living today does.

Job 40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

bars of iron, thats huge and strong