When God created the heavens and earth, and then Adam and Eve, where do the dinosaurs come ito play???

Answer 1

Take a look at Genesis 1:24ff. Here is a basic form of logic called a syllogism: T. Rex is a land animal. Land animals were made on day 6. Therefore, T. Rex was made on day 6. So, according to the Bible, dinosaurs lived beside man. Dinosaurs were made on day six of the creation week the same as man; they were beasts of the earth.

Now, turn to Job 40:15-24. Job was questioning God because of his suffering, and so God comes and challenges Job with His creation. Many people say, “Job 40 can’t be speaking of a dinosaur.” They say that, not because the description doesn’t fit, but because of their preconceived conception that man and dinosaurs didn’t live together.

The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the hippopotamus or the elephant.” Something to keep in mind—the footnotes are not a part of the original. Well, the tail of an elephant or hippo is like a twig, not a cedar (most dogs have longer tails). Throughout the Scriptures, cedars were known for their great size and length. Nothing on earth today fits this description, but a sauropod type of dinosaur does. The largest we have found was over 120 feet long. That sounds to me like the “chief”—not a hippo.

And then in Job 41, God describes the Leviathan (Isa. 27:1 calls it the dragon in the sea). The margin of the NIV says, “Possibly the crocodile.” But the description again doesn’t fit any animal alive today. Besides, man has never had a problem catching crocodiles, even primitive tribes, but God says in Job 41 that Leviathan couldn’t be caught.

Some think this was just a mythical creature since it speaks of it breathing fire. And yes, Job is a poetic book and those could just be poetic descriptions. But not necessarily. Impossible you say? What about the electric eel that can produce enough electricity to stun a horse? If the electric eel was extinct and all we could find were its fossils, would we be able to know that it could generate electricity? Nope. What about the firefly and anglerfish that can produce light? What about the bombardier beetle that can fire a boiling mixture of chemicals at its enemies that is 212 degrees Fahrenheit? Why couldn’t God have created certain water-living reptiles that were capable of expelling hot gaseous fumes that could ignite? Most animals produce methane anyway, which is a flammable gas. Stories of fire-breathing dragons have circulated for thousands of years.

Also, keep in mind that Behemoth and Leviathan were included along with real creatures that Job knew about. Read Job sometime.

In Isa. 30:6, Isaiah speaks of flying serpents. I also find it interesting that Herodotus, the Greek Historian who lived around 450 BC wrote about flying serpents in Arabia. He talked about finding their bones and described their snake-like bodies and bat-like wings. And the Jewish historian from the first century, Josephus, wrote about Moses and the Israelites having a difficult time passing through a particular region because of the presence of flying serpents. I think they were speaking of one of the pterosaurs like the pterodactyl, pteranodon, or rhamphorhynchus.

Answer 2

When he created the rest of the animals. You can read about them in the book of Job.
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 3

If you look at the timeline on an evolutionary scale, it was right between the 3rd and 5th day. I take the days to mean 'Eras' and not specific 'days' because it says in the Bible a thousand years is but a day to God. So following that reasoning, God knows no time, we are the ones that invented that.
Amphibians began to appear in the Paleozoic era, about 362 mya and 290 mya. The reptiles began to show up about 208 to 145 mya in the Mesozoic Era. We started to show up on the sixth day, in the Cenozoic in the Tertiary/Pliocene era.
There are many references to dragons, serpents, leviathan and behemoth in the Bible. These were animals of great strength and very large. I imagine they found skeletal remains of dinosaurs and other saurians and wondered what could possibly be so huge. It doesn't take much imagination when you see the skulls of a T-Rex to come up with a huge beast with razor sharp teeth. If those bones were exposed, wouldn't you (without the foreknowledge) wonder if there were others alive? I sure would. Whatever left those bones was once alive and though they may have never seen them, they would wonder where the others are.

Answer 4

Dinosaurs appear to have happenned before man. The heavens and the earth are still in a state of creation. Are we the last advanced creature in our eyes? How about in the eyes of science? Not sure of the Adam and Eve story, but something to start with.

Answer 5

Land animals were created on Day 5 according to Genesis 1:23-24. This would include dinosaurs.

Since there was not death before sin entered the world, it means that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Kind of different than what evolution teaches.

Answer 6

The Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.
Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.
When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve arrived on Earth almost 38,000 years ago, well after the Age of Dinosaurs. They were NOT the first human beings and the planet was well populated by the time of their arrival. For more information on this fascinating subject and a much closer look at this amazing couple, I highly recommend the book Adam and Eve - A Tragic Love Story. This is a serious and scholarly work and it will shed a great deal of light on all your Adam and Eve Questions.

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Answer 8

The bible describes the six "days" it took to create the heavens and the earth...but to an infinite God, a "day" could last a million earth-years. So the dinosaurs came between when God created the animals and the creeping crawling things and the fishes of the sea. Man came much much later.

Answer 9

That's the thing...There was no "Creation", Adam and Eve, Eden, etc. Read a book on science, unless you are interested in ancient mythology than keep that bible, though it is very incomplete. Dinosaurs evolved during the Triassic. They died out at the end of the Cretacous(sp), and we evolved about 100,000 years ago. Don't take the bible seriously, considering it supports slavery, geocentrism, and flat earth. Scienced proved it wrong.

Answer 10

In the Bible it says that God created the earth in six days, and on the seventh day rested. So I would assume that although the bible doesn't make a dirrect referance to the creation of dinosaurs, that he made them on day six when he created the creatures of land. If you look in Genesis there are referances to very large creatures that people guess might be dinosaurs. Does that help?