where in the bible?...?

Question

does it talk about dinosaurs......i know it talks about giant creatures but i forgot where can someon help me........

Answer 1

Read Job chapter 40.

The creature there described as behemoth, if you read it all, fits exactly the beast described when I was in grade school and high school as a "brontosaurus".

Bibles which have footnotes calling it a hippo or an elephant are NOT being responsible.

Pastor Art

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Nowhere. In the Book of Job, creatures called a "behemoth" and a "leviathan" are described, but since the Book of Job was written in approximately 700 B.C.E., it's highly unlikely that the author was discussing living, breathing dinosaurs, unless you're prepared to accept the notion that dinosaurs may have almost lived long enough to see Julius Caesar, and absolutely nobody in the world except the author of Job happened to notice or write anything about them. Most scholars believe the two beasts described in Job represent a hippoptamus and a crocodile, if not some mythological beasts entirely.

HOWEVER:

Another intriguing, if unlikely, theory has been put forth: suppose the author of Job wasn't describing dinosaurs...but merely speculating about them. Paleontology is a relatively new science, and the first true dinosaur fossils were discovered entirely by accident. Is it possible an ancient people may have discovered some type of fossilized remains, and described them to the best of their imagination's ability? As I said, intriguing.

Pastor Art, if your high school referred to anything called a "brontosaurus", they did you a great disservice, as no such creature exists. The dinosaur in question is called an "apatosaurus"...the brontosaurus was an incorrect name given to a species that had already been discovered and named earlier.

Answer 4

The bible mentions giant creatures, in Genesis, hello! in the making of the creation. it never specifically says, in the 5th day God created dinosaurs. There's only fossils that can serve as evidence that there was giant creatures.

Answer 5

In the book of Job, they are referred to as 'behemeth.' Their tales were as wide as a cedar tree.

“Dinosaur” Names, Then and Now
Name and date first written in the Bible Scientific Name (best estimate) and date the name appeared
tanniyn (dragon) before 1400 BC dinosaur 1841 AD
behemoth before 1400 BC brachiosaurus 1903 AD
Leviathan before 1400 BC kronosaurus 1901 AD

Answer 6

Job chapter 40:15

Answer 7

It doesn't talk about dinosaurs at all. It mentions behemoth which people say means dinosaurs.

Job 40:15-24

Some bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.”

Answer 8

The goat herders kind of goofed up on that one, causing no end of grief to the fundies of today who have to come up with some idiotic explanation.

Answer 9

The book of Job,,,Look there.

Answer 10

Who cares? The bible is as valid a document, and should be taken as seriously as any other comic book.