Why doesn't the Bible make any reference to Dinosaurs in the creation story?

Answer 1

The name dinosaur is a name given by man to the said mammal, but the creation is in the bible and it is not God who is naming the animals or insects or whatever name to be called. Read this verse in the bible.

Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good

dinosaur

di·no·saur [dnə sàwr]
(plural di·no·saurs)
noun
1. extinct reptile: an extinct, chiefly terrestrial reptile that lived in the Mesozoic Era.
Some dinosaurs were the largest known land animals.

Order: Ornithischia, Saurischia
2. outmoded person or thing: somebody or something that is hopelessly out of date or incapable of adapting to change


[Mid-19th century. < modern Latin dinosaurus < Greek deinos "terrible" + sauros "lizard"]


-di·no·sau·ri·an [dnə sáwree ən], adjective


This is how it was name.

.Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Gen 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
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Answer 2

the actual term "dinosaur" hasn't been invented until the middle 1800's. According to the Bible, God created all land creatures on the sixth day. Since dinosaurs are land creatures, we can assume dinosaurs were made on the sixth day with Adam and Eve. If God designed and created dinosaurs, they would have been fully functional. Instead of the actual word Dinosaur, the word Dragon has been used in the Bible many times. You can substitute the word Dinosaur for Dragon and it would fit perfectly. Creation scientists believe they used the word dragon instead of dinosaur before the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800's. There are old history books that describe "dragons" that fit perfectly with what the modern scientists call "dinosaurs"

i hope this helps ;D

Answer 3

The answer is really simple disosaurs lived and died before man was created and the Bible is not a Biology or zoology text book it deals with the History of mankind from it creation to some point in the future and specifically as it deals with His dealings with His People if it mentioned every animal, insect . plant ect it would be a book with Billions of chapters instead of the 66 Books that Make up the Inspired word of God hope that answers your question Gorbalizer P.S. for those who think that the world was created in 7 24 hr days you really need to read the Bible not just guess whay it says ie in the days of Noah refered to a time span covering many centuries so a creative day in milenia in length o.k.

Answer 4

Well it doesn't make any reference to Pluto or mars either, much less lady bugs or even yourself. Just because the bible says the first day doesn't exactly mean 24 hours, I mean there was not even time then much less days. A day to God is the same as a thousand years. God has no concept of time, he is infinite we are finite. Who's to say that God made the light the waters and let the trees grow to full maturity all over the earth to support the herbivores then the animals and so on.....just not capsized by time. When Moses wrote this i believe the Dinosaurs were irrelevant to the message he was telling.

Answer 5

you ought to evaluate that the be conscious "dinosaur" is a be conscious coined in present day situations. you will no longer discover "dinosaur" interior the Bible because of the fact the Bible exchange into written long earlier the be conscious exchange into even invented. yet you will discover animals interior the Bible whose actual descriptions ARE interior the Bible, and those descriptions greater healthful what we now seek advice from as dinosaurs. The e book of activity lists Leviathan and Behemoth in activity 40 and 40-one. different references are for the period of the Bible, making point out of those 2 as properly as dragons. (The be conscious "dragon" can advise many stuff interior the previous testomony, a brilliant form of creatures which incorporates screech owls and mythological banshees.) yet examine with an open techniques, and the Holy Spirit will prepare you that dinosaurs are certainly interior the Bible. as properly activity, you will discover them suggested in Psalms, Isaiah, and a variety of of different different books of the Bible.

Answer 6

The Bible does not contain facts, necessarily, and it certainly does not contain everything written in the time period. Though I do not dismiss the Bible, it must be pointed out that it is mostly a collection of biases and opinions. Perhaps Dinosaurs were never created and are but an elaborate hoax by scientists (as some believe). Perhaps dinosaurs are covered by the reference that God created "everything". Or maybe the Bible and God are just false altogether. It's really up to you to "filter through" in what you choose to believe or not.

Answer 7

The earth is four billion five hundred thousand years old. The Torah or old testament is about seven thousand to five thousand years old. It was written by jewish priests who knew nothing except for what they saw and were taught as children. The scriptures were not divinely inspired and were just metaphorical stories trying to warn people to not stray away from god. Alot of the stories were based off older tales they were taught as children. That is the truth my dear friend if you'd like to hear the Christian or Jewish version read the book and don't doubt it for a second.

Answer 8

The Bible gives a quick historical account of what happened in general. It cannot give an entire list of all species and their phyla as it is NOT a journal. That is not its purpose and it would be very cumbersome as well as there are perhaps billions of species of plant, animal, bacterium, etc. It should get on with the story and just summarize the events of the universe's formation.

edit;
I did a check into the Bible. Genesis Chapter mentions that He created ALL living creatures. As dinosaurs, protists, fungi, etc. are all living creatures, obviously they are included in the Bible, but as I said, it would be too cumbersome too list ALL species of living organisms.

Answer 9

I don't remember any animals being mentioned in the creation story. So that is why not even the dinosaurs were mentioned in the creation story.

Answer 10

Although Adam had named all the animals that God created, the creation story isn't about them, but about man and his sacred relationship with God.

The Bible's intent was not to focus on such curiosities, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ for man's salvation. It is unknown exactly how much information was omitted through translations and purposeful deletions, but the primary focus of these scriptures is the forward look, not what was necessarily before Adam and Eve.