Why does it say God created fish and then birds, but never mentioned dinosaurs?

Question

If it was by God he could of said I created huge reptiles but destroyed them all, but he never

Answer 1

it's because the world wasn't created by God.
When the bible was written, people didn't knew about dinosaurs,
that's why they don't mention it.
Evolution created life forms, and dinosaurs didn't make it, so no dinosaurs walk the earth today.
God has nothing to do with it.. ;)

Answer 2

They are included in the next group God made, the animals that "creep" upon the earth. They were so common that they received no special recognition. Just as it does not mention insects, amphibians, or other reptiles.

There are mentions of creatures which have all the characteristics normally associated with "dinosaurs" (a word created 300 after the King James translation was published). There are mentions of the behemoth and leviathan.

Plus of humans never had any interaction with large, reptilian creatures, explain why every single ancient culture and mythology in the world has stories of dragons? What was the origin of all those thousands of creatures if not dinosaurs?

There is a mention of the extinction of the majority of the dinosaurs species, just as there is a mention of the disappearance of many non-dinosaur species, in the story of the Great Flood. While at attempt was made to carry over the species, it is obvious that not all survived.

Answer 3

We have two questions in your search for an answer on this one and i will try and answer them as best as i can.

The earth as we know it today was formed from what many scientists now believe within a 10000 year time frame. The earth went through a time of renewal and was created with Man and animals as is described in the Bible and up to the time of Noah. Prior to this the earth existed with dinasaurs on it, and there was different species of Dianasaur that roamed the earth millions of years ago.

It wasnt till a major cataclysm such as an asteroid(S) that hit the earth that the earth went into darkness, and was lifeless. Once the dinosaurs had vanished its then God started to create man and the fish and the fowl and the waters and day and night etc etc. So for the beginnings of man it was the beginning. God, in the Bible is talking to man and woman. He says in Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. He is assuring us that he was the designer and creator of the world even before the dinosaurs.

When we talk about God creating the world in 6 days its not a literal 6 days. There was an extensive time period that the earth was formed and transformed and it was during this period that the Dinosaurs reigned king. Then they vanished at a time period within the creation sequence due to major upheavels in the earth and from the heavens such as asteroids. It was towards the 6th day that God created living creatures and man to occupy it. It was ready at that point for man to come and reproduce on it.

Answer 4

Why do we get this question so much... go to that little search box and look it up because i know i have responded to a message like this at least 5 times.

aa... but i will answer anyways

The word “dinosaur” was originally coined in 1841, more than three thousand years after the Bible first referred to “Tanniyn.” (Tanniyn is mention as a dragon but can also be translated as serpent,” “sea monster,” “dinosaur,” “great creature,” and “reptile.”)

The bible specifically talks about the Behemoth and Leviathan (kronosaurus)

here it is from the bible...

Behemoth(brachiosaurus) 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.”, plus according to national graphic the only animal ever found with such a tail would be the brachiosaurus)
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.”


Don't let people try to confuse you with it could have been a bear or tiger or blah blah blah because no other animal on earth fits a description like the one described here besides a Dinosaur.

Answer 5

I don't know what kind of detail may be reasonably expected in an explanation that in one translation is 968 words including all the verse numbers!

Thus the account is brief to the point where the purpose is obvious -- it is not for the sake of giving us detail; rather, it is given simply to have the assurance that God did it in order, and that God did it.

There is an HP that claims the Bible mentions the dins. I do not make such claim. Rather, if the Genesis account was for solving a question everybody has sooner or later, then wouldn't it be enough to mention animals that existed around people rather than including extinct ones too -- remember its brevity!

This link claims the dins are in the Bible:
http://www.s8int.com/

On this link here there is a discussion from the Biblical viewpoint and trying to solve the various problems proponents of evolution throw up.
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

Answer 6

It also doesn't say He created cats. Not specifically anyway. It does say that He created all animals and then Adam named them. Some dino's are just big reptiles. Remember how Adam and his decendants lived for many years. I believe that the atmospheric conditions at the time allowed it. Now, if reptiles never stop growing, imagine if one lived for a hundred yrs or so. He describes a big dino in the book of Job.

Answer 7

Genesis chapter one is poem, a creation poem, that counters the creation poems of other cultures around Israel at that time. God speaks to His people where they are...no museums back then, no complete fossilized skeletons. It would have made no sense to the ancient Israelites if God spoke about huge reptiles; huge reptiles were not known. The other creation poems were known.

Answer 8

Because when the people who wrote the bible were around the dinosaurs hadn't yet been discovered and there was very little in the way of what we now call science. If you don't know about something how can you write about it?

Answer 9

Just because dinosaurs aren't mentioned doesn't mean that the bible is false. Just because something isn't meantioned in a book doesn't mean that the entire thing is just a pack of lies.

Answer 10

True. But the Bible also does not record the location and pathway of every river and stream or the height of every mountaintop. The exclusion of that information does not preclude the existence of rivers and mountains outside the known world.