Why aren't Dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?

Question

Seriously...why?

I can't believe these rigid self absorbed answers-Don't you think that if we're talking of God creating the earth there would be some bloomin mention? Lying of Hooh hah get off you little pony...

Yeh penguins, so ferocious, probably wouldn't score a mention, but you'd think that a ferocious meat eating bad boy would next to the garden of eden, would score a tiny mention, We're talking in the beginning here..please stop beating around the bush. I really do just want to know...

Yeh penguins, so ferocious, probably wouldn't score a mention, but you'd think that a large meat eating bad boy next to the garden of eden, would score a tiny mention, We're talking in the beginning here..please stop beating around the bush. I really do just want to know...

Answer 1

Because they hadn't been discovered yet.
Actually that's not exactly true, but the church tended to quash any such discoveries. Going so far as to destroying the evidence.

Oh man, 'lyin of judah' is at it again! *rolls eyes* honestly, I've never seen such a shining example of pious fraud before.

Answer 2

They are, but the word "dinosaur" wasn't made up until 1844. Before that, they were called "dragons". The Bible mentions dragons 35 times. The book of Job mentions an animal that can only be a brachiosaur. It is described as the biggest animal God ever made; it eats grass, lives in the swamp, has giant bones that are like iron, has a big belly, and has a tail like a cedar tree. Some people think that this is an elephant or a hippo, but how many elephants or hippos do you see with a "tail like a cedar tree"?
The book of Job also mentions a dinosaur called "Leviathan". Keep in mind that Job lived during the few hundred years after the Flood, and Noah brought specimens of EVERY kind of animal, including dinosaurs. Of the largest animals, he would have brought only babies or juveniles. These animals got off the ark and began to repopulate, but due to the climate change, many died out. A few kinds survived, and gave rise to dragon legends all around the world. Every culture of antiquity has dragon legends. Even Marco Polo saw them in China when he visited. A few species, such as plesiosaurs, cadborosaurs, pterosaurs and diplodocus are still reported as being alive all around the world, even today.

Answer 3

Because the goat herders, and other biblical fiction writers had no idea they existed. Notice there is also no mention of animals only found in North America, or Australia. All that is mentioned is what was known locally, at the time. They talk about "asses" and "fowls", etc. Does it still sound like "god's" word? Didn't "god" know about the animal life he had just "created"? This is a dead give-away, an irrefutable proof that the bible is not the word of a universe-creating, omnipresent, all-knowing "god." It's the "word" of a group of uneducated, ignorant zealots, who had a penchant for vindictiveness, violence, torture, killing, and some curious sexual obsessions.

Answer 4

Actually they are mentioned. Ocean dwelling dinosaurs are mentioned (leviathan) Isaiah 27:1, Psalm 74:14; Psalm 104:25-26

Land dwelling (behemoth) Job 40:15-24

Answer 5

Well first of all, since all modern birds belong to the dinosaur family (birds are descended from theropod dinosaurs of the raptor lineage), any time you see a bird in the bible, there's your dinosaur.

Second of all, all other dinosaurs died out sixty four and a half million years before the narrative portion of Genesis begins. There's nothing to mention at this point but fossils....

Answer 6

First, because the Bible is not a book of paleontology or zoology. Armadillos and sharks aren't mentioned either. What would dinosaurs have to do with God's message of salvation??

Secondly, because writers of biblical times had no clue that anything like dinosaurs had ever existed. On the rare occasion when a giant bone was unearthed, they attributed it to an extinct race of giant humans, not giant reptiles.

Answer 7

I find penguins far more fascinating then dinosaurs. Why weren't penguins mentioned? Probably because the authors never saw one.

Answer 8

The Bible is mainly explaining the line from The first Adam to the second Adam, Jesus Christ of Davids line, God wants us to know the important things, the things we need to know, a dinosaur is not going to affect us in any way, we need to know The Letters God gives to us, so we can fully understand and be prepared for the Holy Kingdom.

Answer 9

They are mentioned.

For a biblical study on dinosaurs in the Old Testament, I would definitely recommend using the Authorized Version (AV)/King James Version (KJV) of the Scriptures which were translated into English from the Masoretic text in 1611 [230 years before the word "dinosaur" was available!]. Using a Strong's Concordance, you will find the Hebrew word "tannin" is used 25 times, and is translated as 'dragon(s),''serpent(s),' 'monster(s)' [and, in the more modern versions, improperly as 'jackal(s)']. The key to remember is to look for Hebrew Lexicon #8577.

DAY 5--[Gen.1:20-21]--Creation of marine monsters (Hebrew "tannin," includes large marine 'mammals' and 'reptiles') and winged/flying creatures (Hebrew "o(w)ph," includes all feathered and non-feathered flyers--even pterosaurs, the flying reptiles!)

DAY 6--[Gen.1:24-25]--Making of dinosaurs and other land creatures, divided among the cattle (Hebrew "behemah," includes all quadrupedal, hoofed/blunt-toed ungulates), beasts of the earth (bipedal/quadrupedal, talon-toed), and creeping things (quadrupedal/multi-legged ground crawlers).

FLOOD YEAR (~2350 B.C.)

[Gen.6:17,19-20; 7:14-15; 9:17,19]--Juvenile representatives of every terrestrial, air-breathing kind (not species), including dinosaurs and pterosaurs, were directed by God to the Ark.

Those outside the Ark would be left to be scavenged by marine predators or be buried and fossilized quickly.

POST-FLOOD PERIOD

MARINE MONSTERS--[Leviathan (Job 3:8-'mourning'; 41:1-34/Ps.74:14;104:26/ Isa.27:1); see also Lam.4:3 & Amos 9:3].

PTEROSAURS--[esp. the bioluminescent flying reptiles (Isa.14:29 & 30:6)].

DINOSAURS--[see Strong's Concordance(KJV) under "dragon(s);" also Exod. 7:9-10 (#8577, not #5175)].

The best dinosaur passage in the Bible is Job 40:15-24 where God speaks to Job concerning BEHEMOTH ["most excellent beasts"--intensive plural of


Day 6 'cattle' ("behemah")], a huge sauropod dinosaur (especially notice verses 17 &19 !!!).

Answer 10

Why would anybody feel the need to mention Giant lizards? Erm...?? Maybe just maybe they had not been discovered when it was "written?"