Where do dinosaurs fit in with Biblical history? Any theories?

Question

No non-believers please.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The Bible covers the story of creation in less then a thousand words. In telling the story, the author is not as considered with the "history" or the "science" of creation as he is with the "theology" of creation. So the details he gives deal with who created and why rather then when and how.

The main theme of the Bible is God and his relationship with man. When it includes history, it is only because it is important to the story of God and man. It makes no mention of 90 % of the land masses on earth. They are not involved in the story of salvation. It makes no mention of many kinds of animals, including cats. They are no important to the story of salvation.

Since the existence (or not) of dinosaurs has no effect on whether Jesus died for your sins, why would God spend time on them? Especially if the current scientific teachings are correct that man and dinosaurs never meet nor have an influence on each other.

Hopefully you know that the word "dinosaur" was coined in the mid 1800s. The books of the Bible were completed more than 1700 years before that. The most common translation was made 200 years before that. So of course the word "dinosaur" does not appear. It had not been invented yet.

Before the 1800s, the creatures we called "dinosaurs", where called "dragons". science also indentified them with two very "dinosaur like" creatures described in the Bible, a land animal called the Behemoth, and a water animal called the Leviathan. Dragons, Behemoth and Levithan do appear in the Bible.

Answer 3

There seems to be a fixation with dinosaurs. Why I don't know!

The Bible is not teaching biology or species of the earth science. There are no tigers, elephants, giraffes, penguins, parrots, etc forever in the Bible. So, why should there be dinosaurs, especially if they had died out?

If the fossil record confuses you then you have been listening too much to those claiming the earth is 6000 years old. That is plain UN-BIBLICAL, and pure NONSENSE.

The Bible says that the Earth was created in the BEGINNING - thus giving us space to say One Bil, Two Bil, or 15 Billion years ago.

The six creative days have similar Biblical interpretation: Read this link:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

Answer 4

God created the earth. About 4.5 billion years or so later dinosaurs evolved from more simple organisms. About 40 million years later, after the dinosaurs had become extinct, God created man (perhaps instantaneously, or perhaps through evolution, but God did it just the same). At some point, likely about 6,500 years ago, God created Adam and Eve, the first in the line that would become Hebrews. Thus, the Bible begins. The dinosaurs are pre-history and pre-Bible. The "days" before Adam was created are likely symbolic and allegorical, summing up billions of years of activity. A thousand years is probably a wink of the eye for God.

And yes, I am a Christian. But the last I looked, the Bible was a spiritual guide and history of the Judeo-Christian people, not a science textbook. I see no reason why God, the creator of all things (and thus, science as well), would not act according to scientific principles. I don't believe in a crazy, chaotic, arbitrary God.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs are not relevant to Bible history, and so little is said about them. There are mentions of very large animals though. But again the Bible is about the history of mankind.
Many animals and other natural things are not mentioned either.

Answer 6

some say theyre in job 40
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Answer 7

revelations when all come back to life and different beings roam the earth in search of food human bodies.

Answer 8

i know that Adam was the first man on earth, but there were animals before him, i think. So the dinosuars were here before him