Why Doesn't The Bible Mention Dinosaurs?

Question

Why did the scribes forget to mention the 200 ton man-eating creatures that God created and must have been running around with Adam and Eve?

Why, if the scribes knew the ill-effects of eating shellfish and forbid the eating of shellfish, did they fail to mention that it was not the shellfish at all but the microbes God created that made people sick?

Answer 1

I guess " God " didn`t make paleontologists until they evolved from ancient Atheists ...

Answer 2

Firstly the book of Genesis was penned by Moses under inspiration and not the scribes.
The Bible doesnt provide specific answers to this question.According to the Genesis account animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or 'days'.If the Hebrew expression translated "great sea monsters"[Hebrew tanninim]includes dinosaurs,which often inhabited swampy,watery areas,this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth"day"(Gen.1:21).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.
When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose,God ended their life.But the Bible is silent on when He did this or how.We can sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose,even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time.
With the shellfish,you are missing the point.There were many animals that the Israelites were forbidden to eat.It was to their advantage as it kept them free from many sicknesses

Answer 3

It mentions dinosaurs (a word made up by man in the 1800's). Many of the worlds cultures also reference large man eating beasts - even up until now - but we prefer to not believe in dragons, Loch Ness monsters, Ogopogo and other such beasts.

But as a general item, dinosaurs were not around in a great enough number to be an issue.

Without a test to determine whether or not the shellfish was contaminated, it was safer to forbid eating. Even today we post signage on shellfish harvesting areas - advising us to not eat the shellfish (the signs do not say - don't eat the microbes).

Answer 4

The subject of the Bible is God's plan of salvation, how is was to be accomplished, and how to relate to him. There are many things not mentioned in the Bible because they are unimportant to the subject.

Whether Adam & Eve lived with dinosaurs or not has nothing to do with salvation. So why spend time discussing it? Whether the cause of illness is the shellfish or the microbes on it does not affect the plan of salvation. Simply not eating the shellfish is enough to avoid the microrobes. So restrict the fish and save the hundreds of pointless pages that would be needed to introduce people to microbiology in the stone ages.

As the Bible arleady run over 3.6 million words, God was smart enough not to had millions more on things that have nothing to do with his plan of salvation.

Answer 5

Well, there are a lot of things that are not in the Bible. They didn't know about the dinosaurs. But it was written that there were behemoths.

The scribes were writers not scientists, or doctors. Anyway how would anyone in that time period know about the ill effects of microbes? btw, the scribes didn't write the Bible, they wrote what was told to them. they were the "printers" of there time.

Answer 6

I hope you aren't offended by copy/pastes. If you are, then ignore this answer.

Dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible. The Bible uses ancient names like "behemoth" and "tannin." Behemoth means kingly, gigantic beasts. Tannin is a term which includes dragon-like animals and the great sea creatures such as whales, giant squids, and marine reptiles like the plesiosaurs that may have become extinct.

The Bible's best description of a dinosaur-like animal is recorded in Job chapter 40. "Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God…"(Job 40:15-19) The book of Job is very old, probably written around 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.

The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Their tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars - one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.

After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals certainly do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees! Although it cannot be stated with certainty, it appears that dinosaurs may have actually been mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 7

They were also told not to drink from a well with a dead animal in it....Why? ...they didn't know the reason they just obeyed. They were forbidden to eat pork and shellfish mainly because they spoil so quickly and there was no refrigeration.

Dinosaurs...they may have already been gone by the time Adam was created....but if not when Adam came on the scene the animals were in subjection to man. Maybe they were killed in the flood.
The bible does talk about the behemoth and the leviathin great monsters, and serpents.

Answer 8

Why does the doctor hand you a bottle of medicine and tell you to take it? Shouldn't he explain each minute detail of the micro biological functions? Do you actually think the scribes knew about microbes? Try reading the Bible with an open mind rather than looking for loopholes.

Answer 9

When God created the world everything was perfect, not evil, not microbes...nothing wrong. But Adam and Eve (read: you and me) choose to not listen to God, and fall in sin.
The Bible doesn't mention dinosaurs because God care about people, not animals. It is a book made for people not for animals.

Answer 10

As everyone else has said, it was a religious book. God was concerned to hand down the information to the scribes that was compatible only with the degree of knowledge that they had at the time. He didn't want to ummmmm..........embarrass them is the prevailing theory I do believe. Such as 'What are you talking about God? We don't know what microbes are?'

Answer 11

Does your faith hinge upon this issue? Land animals are mentioned right at the beginning of the bible.
The bible is concerned with the lives of the people of Israel, and trying to explain God to people, and records History.
I'm sure there were other books written about plants and animals, but the topic in the Bible is God.