2007-11-13 16:53:35 · 16 answers · asked by ʌ_ʍ ʍr.smile 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes paul... "some"
2007-11-13 17:00:58 · update #1
angie, who are you to say that all of those verses are not metaphors?
2007-11-13 17:12:26 · update #2
"The fact that the bible does not mention all animals does not mean they did not exist, or did not exist during that time period."
so what's keeping you from saying a unicorn is a magical creature or a dinosaur too?
2007-11-14 12:46:30 · update #3
Because you can use the Bible to justify just about anything.
2007-11-13 16:59:04 · answer #1 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Have you read the description of a behemoth in the bible?
Job 40:15-24
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.
20 The hills bring him their produce,
and all the wild animals play nearby.
21 Under the lotus plants he lies,
hidden among the reeds in the marsh.
22 The lotuses conceal him in their shadow;
the poplars by the stream surround him.
23 When the river rages, he is not alarmed;
he is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.
24 Can anyone capture him by the eyes,
or trap him and pierce his nose?
Verse 17 says his tail sways like a cedar? If this was an elephant or a hippo its tail would not be described like a cedar tree.
bahbdouj~ Your first sentence proves you are just grasping at anything for an answer...you said "Leviathan I believe was found to b crocodille, and behemoth may be whale, or hippo." You've obviously not researched this on your own. How many whales do you see lying under shady trees and eating grass? Wait this must be before they evolved? Hmmm, so humans and other creatures evolved from creatures in the water, but whales evolved backwards from landwalking creatures to being unable to walk?
M~ Who are you to say that they are metaphors?
The terms that we use today for animals that we positively know were here during biblical times are not the same terms we used then. Also, there are many animals today that we know existed in biblical times that are not mentioned in the bible. The fact that the bible does not mention all animals does not mean they did not exist, or did not exist during that time period.
2007-11-14 01:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by Angie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've never read any reliable Biblical scholar who seriously considered that the behemoth and leviathan represented living, breathing dinosaurs...given the time-frame in which the Book of Job was written (roughly 700 B.C.E.), it would be hard to defend the idea that dinosaurs may have nearly lived long enough to see the rise of Julius Caesar. And if dinosaurs did live that recently, what accounted for their mass extinction? And why have no other civilizations from that or any other time period bothered to mention them, or their extinction?
The Book of Job is correctly classified as a book of poetry, and the descriptions of these creatures is almost certainly an example of poetic license (similar to the passage about horses in Job 39:19-25, in which horses are described as being "clothed in thunder" and capable of "swallowing the ground in fierceness and rage").
2007-11-14 01:35:54 · answer #3 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Words change pal. That's why an ox is called an ox today and not a unicorn. Are you the resident linguistics expert?
Hebrew for H3882 ××××ª× Transliteration
livyathan
Pronunciation
liv·yä·thän' (Key)
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
from H3867
TWOT Reference
1089b
Outline of Biblical Usage 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon
a) large aquatic animal
b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
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Hebrew for H930 ××××ת Transliteration
bÄhemowth
Pronunciation
be·hÄ·mohth' (Key)
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
in form a plural or H929, but really a singular of Egyptian derivation
TWOT Reference
208b
Outline of Biblical Usage 1) perhaps an extinct dinosaur
a) a Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
2007-11-14 01:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Leviathan I believe was found to b crocodille, and behemoth may be whale, or hippo.
There are plausable historical animals that fit the roles. But, remember this is mythology (the O.T. stories) you are asking about.
Unicorn may more likely be the orix, an antalope with long horns.
No dinosaurs in the Bible that I ever found.
2007-11-14 01:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by bahbdorje 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Some use it as a poor attempt to explain why the bible never mentions dinosaurs.
Others don't believe they are dinosaurs.
2007-11-14 00:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The word "unicorn" was not a mistranslation of the word for "ox". There was a word for both...guess which one was used!
2007-11-14 00:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by Dashes 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Didn't you know,they vanished,and were replaced by Pink unicorns!
2007-11-14 17:55:12 · answer #8 · answered by Life goes on... 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just more efforts to make the bible seem "topical." It won't work, but they get an "A" for effort. Got to give them credit for thinking.
2007-11-14 00:59:01 · answer #9 · answered by link955 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
People will always make things up to fit their own personal beliefs. It's much easier to ignore history and Etymology than to be proven wrong.
2007-11-14 00:59:06 · answer #10 · answered by Pathofreason.com 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋