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2007-05-14 17:30:17 · 14 answers · asked by Johnny w 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Read Job 40
2007-05-14 17:32:51 · answer #1 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The book of Job makes a long list of ordinary animals. Among the list are the leviathan and the behemoth. Their descriptions are like no animal living today, but perfectly match what we know about some types of dinosaurs.
All things were created in the first six days, including dinosaurs. Dinos and humans lived at the same time. Some time after the Flood the dinosaurs died out. (I say this because the book of Job came after the book of Genesis which describes the Flood.)
There is much fossil evidence of this. When fossils of animals that "don't belong together in the Evolutionist faith" show up together, Evolutionists say they have been "reworked" (or moved). How bout we just accept what is right there in front of us?
Also, the bible mentions "dragons" in many places - the word "dinosaur" wasn't coined until hundreds of years later, obviously.
2007-05-15 00:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just in case you don´t know your question provoked by an "atheist movement". Well, there is no such thing as "the Bible" if you want to say that you read "the Bible" you must understand that there are two Testaments and that the Old one differs from the New one mainly because of Jesus coming. Lots of interpretations can be done on the Old testament mainly because they are a gathering of scriptures many thousand years old, so give the Holly Scriptures that credit either you believe or not and don´t judge them with a 2007 mind reading over the internet and watching satellite tv in your mobile phone. If some events of the past decades are not that clear is obvious that the Bible (after many translations) must have somethings not well translated or missinterpretated over all this centuries, don´t you think?
2007-05-15 00:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by taiwanes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if the biblical writers knew about dinosaurs, which they certainly did not, what possible reason would they have for mentioning them? Can you imagine Paul writing, "now that I have addressed the theological and moral issues you needed to hear, a short lecture on extinct reptiles". Dinosaurs have nothing to do with the message of salvation, and that is the purpose of the Bible.
2007-05-15 00:46:04 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, If you look into the book of Job, chapters 40&41, there is described a behemoth and a leviathan. some say that the behemoth was actually a elephant or a hippo but look at the description-vs 16 says "his tail sways like a cedar". ever see an elephant or hippos tail? And if you read genesis, animals and poeple didn't start eating meat until after the flood.
2007-05-15 00:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by resdogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to remember that in the bible God created man last. It does not really say how long everything really lasted. A day could mean more than that....we do not really know. But this is what I think......
I think that God created the world and it took longer than just what a day is to us but the bible calls it a day. Then God made the animals. I think that maybe God decided to change some of the animals because he knew that they couldn't co-exist with humans. This is where I think that evolution took place. So I believe that the animals were created first and then changed to suit humans existence and then we were created last.
But also you have to remember that this is just speculation. No one really knows the answers to questions like this. No one will ever know, unless you die and go to heaven and meet God and ask.
2007-05-15 00:48:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs were already extinct by the time the bible came about ... Adam and Eve came long after they'd already come and gone. Kind o' makes you think about what else might have been not mentioned in the book, huh?
2007-05-15 00:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by OP 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no "dinosaurs" in the Bible. There is a reference to Leviathan, and maybe a couple other references to large animals, that fundamentalists translate to mean dinosaurs.
2007-05-15 00:35:20 · answer #8 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the bible doesn't mention very many dinosaurs, it infers them sometimes but one that is stated is in Job 40:15- 41:34, it is referred to as the behemoth, then it goes to the leviathan, then possibly switches to another dinosaur, there weren't many but there were some. since there wasn't many, it wasn't really a big threat to the human population.
2007-05-15 00:41:16 · answer #9 · answered by ~*.:Kyla:.*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One could make the argument that cats and dogs aren't in the bible either. Since there are no lists of each and every animal, bird, fish, insect, etc., in the bible, this is where we have to take some things on faith.
Sandy
2007-05-15 00:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by Sandy M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋