Were do the dinosours fit in the bible when it says god created the earth and man in 6 days?

Answer 1

Look under animals. Dinosaurs were animals.

Answer 2

Genesis is one of many creation accounts in the Bible - it is told from the perspective of a view from the planet (as opposed to looking at the planet from elsewhere)

The "days" are not 24 hr periods, but long periods of time (millions of years . . . they vary from age to age). This is upheld elsewhere in the Bible where prophets use the same word for day, to mean long periods of time, or an 'age'.

[Example: there was a time when sunlight did not reach this planet surface . . . due to thick atmosphere. . . even though the star we call 'the sun' was 'shinning . . . so from the perspective of being on the planet, there was no light - untill God did the next creation "age" . . . eventually sheding light on the subject. (pun intended) . . . Again; there was a time when we had no moon, but wham! The right impact with the right body, at the right angle, with the right effect . . . created and added what we now know as our moon and our plate techtonics.]

The phrase, used in the Genesis account, "and there was morning and there was evening" is where most 'young earth' people say, "see . . . it is a 24 hr period." They should be read, "and there was a beginning and an end." (like a day has a beginning and an end)

Read on:

Well then, why is the phrase not written about the seventh day? (go ahead . . . check your Bible)

The seventh day is still "today" . . . this is upheld by references in Hebrews.

Would the author (God through man) mix his metaphors on the seventh day, different from the first six days? No . . . all the 'days' in the Genesis account are "ages" . . . we are still in the seventh age.

When God re-creates everything (see Revelation) then we will be in the "eighth day" or "eighth age"

All of that to say this: The dinosaurs fit right where the scientists find them in the fossil record . . . they were creatures that God created and they went extinct (via a catastrophic meteor impact? or something?)

Answer 3

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.

Recommended Resource: Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved: Answers from the Bible" by Ken Ham.

Answer 4

Since the Bible was produced by man as a journalistic work in which God was quoted we've been using it as a reference, but where does it say He was the publisher? Like most religious tomes, the Bible is presented in allegory form which one may take literally as undeniable truth or use as a search engine to prompt even more questions. God (this is a matter of faith, not documentation) and planet Earth are quite a bit older than Jesus' journey to sacrifice and the 6 day timeline is
not necessarily a matter of 144 hours or 100 million years.

Answer 5

"..dinosaurs [the name coined by a creationist - Dr Richard Owen] are consistent with biblical creation. There is compelling evidence that dinosaurs lived relatively recently—and were documented by people and various nations.."

"The Bible tells us that God created all of the land animals on the sixth day of creation. As dinosaurs were land animals, they must have been made on this day, alongside Adam and Eve, who were also created on Day Six" (Genesis 1:24-31).
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Carl Baugh, Ph.D., has excavated eleven dinosaurs (Acrocanthosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, etc.), 475 dinosaur tracks, 86 human footprints, 7 cat prints, and other fossil remains - all in Cretaceous limestone. Excavations were professionally documented along the Paluxy River and various other international locations.

Among museums this entity makes a unique contribution, demonstrating that man and dinosaur lived contemporaneously.

MARINE MONSTERS--[Leviathan (Job 3:8-'mourning'; 41:1-34/Ps.74:14;104:26/ Isa.27:1); see also Lam.4:3 & Amos 9:3].

PTEROSAURS--[esp. the bioluminescent flying reptiles (Isa.14:29 & 30:6)].

DINOSAURS--[see Strong's Concordance(KJV) under "dragon(s);" also Exod. 7:9-10 (#8577, not #5175)].

The best dinosaur passage in the Bible is Job 40:15-24 where God speaks to Job concerning BEHEMOTH ["most excellent beasts"--intensive plural of

Day 6 'cattle' ("behemah")], a huge sauropod dinosaur (especially notice verses 17 &19)
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Answer 6

Just because the Bible doesn't necessarily mention dinosaurs, doesn't mean they didn't exist and just because everything was created in 6 days doesn't mean that dinosaurs don't exist.

The Bible never mentions Giraffes... does that mean that they don't exist?

Who ever said that man and dinosaurs didn't co-exist... most scientists say that they did.

Behemoth is a word used in the book of Job in the Bible and some people say that it is Job talking about a dinosaur.

Job 40:15-24
Check it out!

Answer 7

Hi, I am a student of the manuscripts:
You can find dinosaurs in the Book of Job.
As far as God creating the earth in 6 days, well, the Bible never said that.
Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth." See that period? When does it say God did that? It doesn't - just "in the beginning".
People believe that as they continue reading, that its a description of that first creation - its not. God in Genesis is describing his rejuvination of the Earth to ready it for flesh habitation, not the first creation of it. 2peter tells you of all three earth ages. We are in the second. There was an entire earth age before this one we live in now. Thats all but cemented in fact in the manuscripts. Why did the Earth need to be rejuvinated? Because the last earth AGE
(not the terafirma - the age) was destroyed by God after the war where Satan rebelled.
The earth became void and without form
as a result of that destruction, and sat in that condition for countless billions of years.

Answer 8

Debate seldom finally ends up interior the fact -- just to human beings protecting their factors of view. besides the undeniable fact that, the respond isn't any. you're to take the Bible actually while it says that God created the heaven and the earth, which includes guy, in six successive tiers of attempt or stages. word that in the time of a few scriptures they're pronounced as "circumstances" extremely of days, and that those "days" have been calculated earlier the solar grew to alter into seen on the exterior of the planet.

Answer 9

In Genesis 1, when the waters brought forth the sea dragons also. Some of the bird species brought forth of water moved to land. And also, they kept growing and got really big in that nothing died until after the fall of Adam. Then they still grew and didn't die for a long time.

Also, a day to God is an age/1000yrs, or an age/1000yrs is like a day.

And the days were different because the sun, moon & stars placed in the firmament happened around the 3rd or 4th day.

Answer 10

HELLLLOOOO! People, people, people! Get it straight!

The Bible is NOT A SCIENCE TEXTBOOK. The Bible is NOT A BIOLOGY LESSON. The Bible is NOT A PALEONTOLOGICAL CLASS.

It IS the story of a people who came to the recognition that there is only one God and that said God wants a personal relationship with His creation. They weren't interested in exactly how He did whatever He did. They didn't have a clue HOW He did it. They didn't CARE HOW HE DID IT! They only cared that HE did it, not a bunch of godlets, scrapping around and making nice, then fighting amongst themselves like everyone else believed in.

GET A GRIP, PEOPLE! Genesis is NOT HISTORY! It's THEOLOGY!

Answer 11

I dont think we can equate our regular 24 hours day to the biblical day. I think the 6 days refer to the period it took for initial stage setting i.e. for life to be able to progress on this planet. Dinosaurs etc come later in the play.