How come in the bible there are no accounts of dinosaurs but yet they are there???

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Answer 1

Before 1824, dinosaurs were unknown to man. In that year the bones of several kinds of fossilized reptiles were unearthed in England. British paleontologist Richard Owen called these animals Dinosauria, from the two Greek words deinos and sauros, meaning “terrible lizard.” The name remains in common use to this day, although while dinosaurs are reptiles, they are not lizards.

While the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.

Some dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.
When the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.

Answer 2

I guess because Genesis leaps from the moment of universal creation to the moment Eden was created in just a few steps and leaves out all of the intervening millions of years.
Personally, I think it's because whoever wrote Genesis was trying to make sense of a history they didn't witness and was so big they couldn't comprehend. Even if there had been dinosaurs in the inspiring vision, the human writer (who had never seen dinosaurs) wouldn't have known how to describe them and so just lumped them in with the rest of the "beasts" along with whales and aardvarks and other creatures that aren't native to the Middle East.
Besides - the Bible isn't about animals or georgraphy; it's about the human history and philosophy of that particular region of the world at that particular time.

Answer 3

'but they are there'? Are you implying that dinosaurs and men coexisted? That is absurd to say the least. Considering the bible was written by men over a couple of hundred year span about 1,700 years ago (and has been editted and re-written countless times since) and the last of the dinosaurs were gone roughly 65 million years ago, is it really any wonder that dinosaurs are not mentioned in the bible?

Answer 4

Time changes all. The dinosaurs probably roamed the earth for thousands or millions of years. Then came the asteroid which caused the ice-age and they all died off. Only six thousand years ago Jesus said: "Let us make man in our image". The dinosaurs have long since past so why should the Bible mention them when the Bible is purposed as a blue-print for the creation of man?

Answer 5

Because the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life existed for billions of years before God and the Bible start recording time on Earth which starting on the 1st. Day of Creation is only the modern eras of time.

Answer 6

It might have references to dinosaurs. But it is not a dinosaur book. It wasn't for telling of the times before the replenishment of the Earth. It was to be about the creation that was in the interest of man, the part that would be under man's authority.

The Bible goes on and describes man's fall out of God's grace, the loss of contact man had with God, the establishment of a covenant which would illustrate that man was incapable of obtaining righteousness on his own, and the establishment of a New Covenant that made it possible for man to return to a relationship with God by God.

So it wasn't a book about microbiology, Nano Technology, Metalurgy, or dinosaurs, etc.

Answer 7

OH YES ONLY HAKIM from all the answers I read got it bulls eye correct

neither was the earth created in six days - where it is mentioned in the bible that god created this and that and on this world and forgotten about the jurrasic erea completely ->>

Thats why Galileo was house prisoned for life on heresy for publishing the facts that the earth goes around the sun and not the sun goes around the earth as bible says.

DO YOU KNOW how many people from the scientific community were murdered in the name of heresy !!

I belive in JESUS and the holy spirit not its religion - its man made

Answer 8

The leviathan and the behemoth are clearly dinosaurs by the descriptions given of them in the Bible. These are not animals because elephants and hippopotamuses were already called that before the Bible was written.

Answer 9

Because the human all to human creators of the bible did not know about dinosaurs. They did not know about India and china-heck the geography of bible is so small-knowledge of the world is limited to that geography it seems jehovah knew as much of the world as his creators..No true god is ambiguous, favors anypart of its creation over another, has a chosen people, sets one part of its creation against the other-is not jealous or in need of adoration or worship by its creation. ...

Answer 10

The Bible is not an encyclopedia that God wrote in order to satisfy our curiosity about everything on earth. It was written to address our spiritual needs and teach us how to have a right relationship with Him. Anything not specifically related to that issue, you probably won't find there. Since I can't imagine how dinosaurs could possibly be relevant to salvation, it doesn't surprise me at all that they aren't mentioned.