Always curious..
2007-11-12 10:06:29 · 13 answers · asked by A. Browning 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What about zebras or hippos or frogs? He doesn't name the animals one by one or else it would be one long boring story.
2007-11-12 10:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by moonman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't mention all the lifeforms that were created before the Bible was written strangely enough.
There's no mention of saber tooth tigers, mammoths, trilobites, megalodons, bony fish and billions of other prehistoric species. This is because the account of Genesis shouldn't be taken literally.
Creationists love to say dinosaurs are in there in the Bible because they're so popular but dinosaurs only existed for roughly 150 million years, a blink of time in geologic history. If people had a better grasp of the natural history of the earth and the billions of other species besides the dinosaurs that existed they would realize that either God had to actively create new species when older ones went extinct which is a bit like evolution or that God created all the trillions of species in genesis 6000 years ago which is impossible because there isn't enough room on the earth for every species to coexist. This is shown by the billions of fossils which only represent a tiny proportion of all the lifeforms that actually existed.
2007-11-12 18:11:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
Job chapter 40 as someone already mentioned.
And Genesis chapter one:
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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2007-11-12 18:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The dinosaurs were created with the other animals.
2007-11-12 18:18:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gen. 1:24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creatures according to its kind; cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
2007-11-12 18:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by 9_ladydi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes he does.... in the book of Job he describes 2 animals that were probably Dinosaurs although there are those who disagree with me that they are.
here is a desciption of one of them.. what do you think
15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
2007-11-12 18:16:29 · answer #6 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Job 40
15 "Look at the behemoth,
which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.
16 What strength he has in his loins,
what power in the muscles of his belly!
17 His tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are close-knit.
18 His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like rods of iron.
19 He ranks first among the works of God,
yet his Maker can approach him with his sword.
2007-11-12 18:11:59 · answer #7 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think He just talks about animals in general, and perhaps dinosaurs fall in that category. Remember everything in the Bible is not meant literally... it was written by man, afterall.
2007-11-12 18:09:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes...leviathon, behemoth, unicorn---which is thought to be a triceratops type animal, tanniyn..which are dragons...the ancient word for what we call dinosaurs.
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml
2007-11-12 18:16:16 · answer #9 · answered by paul h 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it sure doesn't....but it does go on to mention that anyone who goes into convultions for no apparent reason are taken by deamons and should be put to death. We now know that condition is called EPILEPSY. It also refers to stoning children to death...what a sacred scientific book to live by.
2007-11-12 18:12:56 · answer #10 · answered by Noressa S 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋