Bible!! Dinosaurs?

Question

ok all you christian..folowers..why the hell doesent the bible mention dinosaurs. and why do you believe in something that some guy just made up like 9000 years after people existed? what happened to the original 8 gods, and that 1 god, the first god who hatched from a egg and looked like the guy from final fantasy

Answer 1

LOL!!! Good one! 100% FACT!!! Stick it to them!!!

Answer 2

".why the hell doesent the bible mention dinosaurs"
Partial list of animals not specifically mentioned in the bible
zebra
gibbon
polar bear
giraffe
llama
sloth
dinosaur
penguin
tiger
reindeer

Oddly enough, most *science* books printed today do not mention all of these either - including most biology books! Surely, we mustn't believe any of them. I can't *imagine* why the bible did not mention every animal that ever existed in the history of the world, can you? After all, *clearly* the purpose of the bible is to be a big list of all the animals that ever existed.....

"and why do you believe in something that some guy just made up like 9000 years after people existed?"
There are so many scientifically proven fallacies in this statement, I don't know where to begin.

"what happened to the original 8 gods"
Umm, there were 8? Really? Who knew?

"and that 1 god, the first god who hatched from a egg and looked like the guy from final fantasy"
I believe he became obsolete.

Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.com

Answer 3

Why could they not co-exist? The world is a big place, and to begin with there were only two people on earth, I am sure the dinosaurs did not live where man did, they would go off throughout the world. It was not till after the flood that mankind spread throughout the world, and by then most dinosaurs would have been killed in the flood. Man can handle large animals. We stay away from alligators, and we respect elephants, and rhinos etc. I can't see why it would be a major problem. Remember Jurassic Park was a fictional movie, not reality.

Answer 4

Take a look at 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 Isaiah 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 5

You are correct the word "dinosaur" isn't mentioned in the Bible, because the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s before that time they were known as dragons. There are thousands of legends of people seeing or killing dragons. Dragons in the bible are mentioned 35 times see (Deut.32:33). Heres a short story about how the word dinosaur came about: The discovery began back in the 1820s, when Gideon Mantell, an English doctor, found some unusual teeth and bones in a quarry. Dr Mantell realized there was something very different about these animal remains, and believed that he had found an entirely new group of reptiles. By 1841, about nine types of these different reptiles had been uncovered, including two called Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.

At this time, a famous British scientist (and creationist), Dr Richard Owen, coined the name ‘Dinosauria,’ meaning ‘terrible lizard,’ for this is what the huge bones made him think of.


All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? The answer may be in Job 40:15–24. In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig. Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: It was the largest of all the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river. He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, "He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him." In other words, God could've caused, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct. Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen

FINDING A DINOSAUR'S SOFT SPOTS
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/24/288786.aspx


"A couple of years ago, paleontologists were stunned to find that the soft tissue of a 70 MILLION-YEAR-OLD!! dinosaur was preserved within a fossil from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Such a thing had never been seen before. The discovery opened the door to all sorts of speculation about reconstructing dinosaur DNA, just as it was in the fictional "Jurassic Park" tales."

Faced with the implications of this discovery, secular evolutionists are scrambling to suggest a way soft tissue can be completely preserved in pristine condition, for they dismiss the possibility of young age. But unfortunately, Christian leaders who likewise hold to long ages are joining them in the search. Why must Christians fight this evidence? Shouldn't they welcome the possibility that the Bible is correct as it appears on the surface? Yes they should, but so strong is the commitment to millions and billions of years among many Christians that contrary evidence must be explained away.

Answer 6

The word dinosaur is not found any where in the bible, because the word dinosaur wasn't invented until the mid 1800's. The King James bible was translated into English in 1611, so we would not expect to find the word dinosaur in it.
But that doesn't mean that the animals we now call dinosaurs are not in the bible. It just means that if they are in the bible they are called by a different name.
In the book of Job the bible talks about these magnificent creatures. It uses the word "Behemoth" to describe these large creatures. (The word Behemoth means, Giant kingly beast) which is a dinosaur.

Answer 7

The Bible does mention dinosaurs, and you should read a little of the Bible just to try and understand a little bit about what Christians believe.

Answer 8

The bible doesn't mention dinosaurs for two reasons ...

First, the Bible is not a book of zoology or paleontology, and dinosaurs have absolutely nothing to do with God's plan of salvation (The Bible doesn't mention armadillos or moose or sharks either. Why would it?).

And second, people of biblical times had absolutely no clue that anything like dinosaurs had ever existed. On the rare occasion when a giant fossilized bone was inadvertently discovered, they attributed it to an extinct race of giant humans, not giant reptiles.

Answer 9

In Job in the Bible God talks about the behemoth and the leviathan those were creatures that no one of our day and age knows about . What you people think are dinosaurs fossils are just the bones of these age old creatures

Answer 10

--YOUR OBNOXIOUS attitude hardly deserves an answer, but for the benefit of some who might wonder, this is a possible reference to their creation:

(Genesis 1:20-21) “. . .” 21 And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good. . .”

--"THE GREAT SEA MONSTERS" --could have included dinosaurs!
--Did you hatch from a dinosaur egg?

Answer 11

Dinosaurs are mentioned in the bible. They are called giants.
How come secular science can't decide if the dinosaurs were ALL wiped out by a meteor, or they evolved into birds? I've been trying to brush up on these intelligent scientific theories and all I see is a bunch of confustion, fantasy and myths. As they call the bible a myth. Realy interesting.