Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?

Answer 1

Because dinosaurs actually existed

Answer 2

They are. Get a Strongs Exhaustive to go with a King James version. And the Dinosaurs are mentioned as root words in Hebrew Genesis 1:21 great=GDWL, whales = TNYN = sea dragon, serpent or whale. Job 7:12 is TNYN )Tanyn)also.

Also the Leviathan & Behemoth is described in the bible. These were after the flood. Leviathan = Job41:1, Ps74:14,104:26; Isaiah27:1 Behemoth = Job40. Also, Job may be the oldest book written available.

Dinosaurs only grew sooo big because they lived so long & didn't quit growing. Today crocodiles (also could be considered a dragon) will also continue to grow & can get big, but they don't live to be 1000 yrs old either. Also when the fallen angels raped women on earth & had giant offspring (Gen.6). It would be neat to find fossils of these giants.

Answer 3

The Bible writes very little about the animals that existed in the pre-flood days. The dinosaurs would have been created on the 5th, 6th day of creation. They would have been around and living on earth at the same time as man. They very well were place on Noah's ark (babies) and made it to the other side of the flood. The change in the environment, caused by the flood very well ended their existence.

Some Christians believe that Job 40:15-24 is describing a dinosaur, that it could possibly be a Brachiosaurus. But we just don't have enough information to be certain.

Answer 4

Great job Uncle John and Christian Betty and many others. I am thinking maybe humans were actually even smaller then despite the guy telling you people were giants (proven fact - watch the history channel sometime) and dinosaurs were before the first human civilizations. You posed an excellent question. I am a believer but the Bible does leave some info to be desired sometimes unfortunately. However it has been translated many many times and through all of that may have lost a little information since there aren't always exact translations between languages if that makes sense.

Answer 5

Why should they be? If dinosaurs were in existence - and science suggests that they had disappeared before human beings appeared on earth - why would they be mentioned anyway? Any more than any of the other thousands of animals not mentioned in the Bible?

The Bible is not a scientific handbook, nor is it an encyclopedia. It is the story of the developing understanding of God by His human creation, and the growing relationship that understanding brought with it.

Answer 6

The bible actually does mention dinosaurs, but not under that name.

Answer 7

The bible was written by an ancient people using their knowledge of the world they saw around them. It is important to realise that the bible and science are trying to answer two different questions. Science (with dinosaurs and evolution) tells us how the world was created. As Christians we believe the bible answers the question of why the world was created... not so much how.

Answer 8

Dinosaurs bones were find during the early presence of human on this planet, but their interpretation was not well done at the time, but the Greek (Antiquities), did already speculate about the fact that those fossils findings could be related to ancient life on earth, but this was a marginal fact in the society of the time, and very few were interested in this. Also, you must understand that fossils are often found in small pieces and most of the time need to be assemble to look at something that we can refer too. So in fact at the time, writing something about fossils could have look like talking at evil looking beings... Dragons myth has evolved from fossils findings (from China), Unicorn also was from fossils findings... So the bible may have missed most of those, but mythology have taken them abord...

Answer 9

Because the term ' dinosaurs" is a modern term. What you need to look for is the word "dragon". I believe they were hunted to near extention for food and bones as tools. Remember the shining Knights-they got fame from killing dragons. Many dinosaurs have been found with soft tissue still intact and recently T. Rex was found with bood droplets. You can do a search on T. Rex and blood and read for yourself. Think young earth.Read you Bible.

Answer 10

Generic answer: This question is asked a million times a day. Just read Job. Dinosaurs are mentioned just not by the name "dinosaurs."

Can't you people at least do research????

Answer 11

They are there but the word dinosaur is a relatively new one so you would not find it in there simply because when it was written the word didn't exist.

Instead you will find the words dragon, Leviathan, Behemoth.

Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24

It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
“He is the first of the ways of God.”
“He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”

A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”

Leviathan has the following attributes according to Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—just enough to make the point.

“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
“Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
“His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.”
“His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.”
“Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.”
“On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
[a] Note: The word translated “reptile” here is the Hebrew word tanniyn. This shows that “Leviathan” was also a “tanniyn” (dragon).