How do dinosaurs play into the bible times...?

Question

I've always wondered this ever since I was little. I mean we know there was dinosaurs... we have proof. and dinosaurs couldn't have lived during the same time period as humans. were they in the garden of Eden as well as earth? i mean the garden of Eden was peaceful so they could have gotten along but the fossils are found on Earth. I know when God created them in 7 days they probably weren't seven days in our days but God's days. But in Job he describes this animal that he saw he describes everything except the head and the description fits a dinosaur so how...

Answer 1

Take a look at Genesis 1:24-31. Here is a basic form of logic called a syllogism: T. Rex was 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 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 (Isaiah 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.

Most cultures throughout the world possess ancient stories about dragons and sea monsters that closely resemble what we today would call dinosaurs. For instance, the flag of Wales depicts a dragon, which by the way, is claimed to be the oldest national flag still in use. Dragon stories have been handed down for generations in most civilizations, and from people from different continents who never had contact with one another.

No doubt many of these stories have been exaggerated through the years, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have their original basis in fact. I believe many of the dragon legends are simply distorted versions of dinosaur encounters. As Paul Taylor has said, “Most of the dragon legends are full of exaggeration, magic and marvelous deeds. But this is not true of all of them. Many stories seem rather believable.”

It is true that many of them are mythical or legendary but it is also true that most legends are based on some truth. It cannot be an accident that so many separate peoples of the world tell such stories. The same can be deduced from the 250+ different flood stories from around the world. Flood legends in many cultures that have never even heard of the Bible, and yet many of them are very similar to the account in Genesis. Why? Because everyone is descended from Noah. Some of the details have been distorted from thousands of years of telling and retelling, but it is based in fact. I believe the same is true of the dragon legends.

As Eric Lyons has said, “Such similar stories of unique reptilian creatures in only a handful of places on the globe might reasonably be passed off as just coincidence. The ‘coincidence card,’ however, looks rather weak in light of the vast amount of testimony regarding the longstanding, widespread nature of dragon legends.”

There are hundreds of these types of legends. Evolutionists just say that it’s coincidence that many of them sound like dinosaurs. World Book Encyclopedia says: “The dragons of legend are strangely like actual creatures that have lived in the past. They are much like the great reptiles [dinosaurs] which inhabited the earth long before man was supposed to have appeared on earth.”

Answer 2

Dinosaurs lived before the writers of the bible said the world was made. What does that tell you? That dinosaurs were on the ark? That dinosaurs lived only a thousand years? Or does that tell you that at least some things that have happened cannot be explained by the bible. Perhaps you'll come to the correct conclusion that the bible is the work of man and that a god does not exist.

Answer 3

OK Lolo this is your real answer. The bible starts out in Genesis 1 :1 saying ,"in the beginning God created the heaves and the earth PERIOD . He didn't say when that was. In Genesis 1:2 it says " now the earth was MADE void (check the original manuscripts) . Now there is now way that it indicates that Genesis 1:2 follows immediately or shortly after Genesis 1:1. We just assumed it does. Well it doesn't. It is between Genesis 1: 1 and Genesis 1:2 that the book of Job's time period is placed. And it is called the first " earth-age" . a time dispensation , (not the age of the earth) and it was millions of years long. NOVANGEL IS WRONG GOD IS COMPARING HIS TAIL TO THE SIZE OF A CEDAR TREE. THAT WOULD MAKE BEHEMOTH AT LEAST 130 FT LONG. THAT CAN ONLY BE A DINOSAUR. NEXT THING YOU KNOW HE WILL SAY IT WAS A HIPPO !!

Answer 4

Dinosaurs only play when they’re young. At that time, they played just like any other Meso-youths. When Dinos grow up, they must find a job and go to work; just like the rest of us.

In the bible you will find that dinosaurs mostly played in the Garden of Eden after the owner, a tradesman who dealt in spices with the Europeans, discovered Adam and Eve, a couple of local schizophrenics had squatted there and ran them off his property. He then left the property unattended and run down and that’s when the Dinosaurs said, "damn look at all this property with trees and green grass and streams and plenty of food and stuff like that; lets get it".

Glad I could help.

Answer 5

None of the writers of the bible knew anything about dinosaurs. Period. End of story.

Answer 6

It's an elephant in Job. Unless you know the Biblical era Hebrew word for trunk, why is the trunk not the "tail"? If not, it could also be another body part.

40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
40:17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

Answer 7

Dinosaurs don't play ...And they were not around at the time of the god awful bible times as contrived by early superstitious religious leaders on the king's payroll.

Answer 8

They don't. The bible was written well before the discovery of fossils, so the writers didn't see it coming.

Answer 9

I just answered this recently on someone else's question and won best answer. Just Google dinosaur and human footprints and you will see evidence that they indeed lived together.

Answer 10

Nope.