Why aren't there dinosaurs in the bible?

Answer 1

Because the people that wrote the Bible did not know about the dinosaurs that predated them.

The animal in Job 40 is described also as a hippopotamus and elephant. No where in Job is the word dinosaur mentioned.

Answer 2

To Royal Racer:
You wrote: Be warned:..Hippos dont have tails the size of Cedar trees...Alligators dont eat grass..................THESE ARE DINOS.

40:18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

My reply:
Depends on the size of the cedar tree as there were all sizes of dinosaurs (you even mentioned alligators) and all sizes of cedar trees. Parts of the descriptions apply to elephants and other parts apply to other animals. The christian bible does not state nor does it imply that all of the traits described apply to one animal.

So, the bible does not clearly make any reference to dinosaurs. However, while in an evangelical drunken stupor, an evangelical might interpret that statement to mean dinosaurs.

Whenever I hear such garbage, I look up to the heavens and look at constellations and wonder, just what kind of DRUGS were people taking to get them to see those shapes?

I wonder the same when I read things like what Royal Racer wrote.

Now some reality:
No large dinosaur has existed on Earth for about 65,000,000 years. The earliest human-like upright walking organism, Australopithecus afarensis, walked the earth only about 3,200,000 years ago so dinosaurs were long gone by the time "Lucy" lived.

In addition, the bible was written over a few centuries by numerous people starting about 1500 years ago. The writing of the bible has been matched to styles of syntax that were prevalent during certain time periods. The time periods were spread over a few hundred years. Those doing the matching were recognized biblical scholars.

The bible was NOT written by god, it was written by men and sold to gullible people as if it was written by god. Many of those types of people, unlike the dinosaurs, still live today.

Answer 3

Because the Bible is not historical evidence. All the Flintstonists telling you to read Job are deluded. The dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years! Humans have just begun to emerge in the last 2 million years! The two never coexisted.

Answer 4

Pope John Paul II said The Bible is God's love letter to his children.
The bible is not about science data but the revelation of God and his nature and ways given progressively until God became incarnate and visible in Jesus who said he is equal to God and one with God. The 6 day Genesis story is divine wisdom revealing God is the source of things powerful enough to create all by simply speaking it into being such as perhaps happened in the Big Bang moment. He composed it in a way even children and uneducated people can understand the point being made. I'm sure glad there's no dinosaurs in my neighborhood. Nice to watch but not to feed.

Answer 5

While the word dinosaur doesn't appear in the Bible, most anyway, many large animals fitting the descriptions of dinosaurs certainly are in the Bible.

Answer 6

The word "dinosaur" is a modern invention, coined by someone in 1841.

The bible talks about some pretty weird creatures that have never really been identified....Read the book of Job chapters 40 & 41.

god bless

Answer 7

Dinosaurs, or dragons, are mentioned in the Bible. Gn 1:21 speaks of God creating whales on the fifth day of creation. The Hebrew word translated here as whales is generally translated dragons. It is translated as monsters once, whale(s) twice, serpent(s) thrice, and dragon(s) 21 times so there is reason to believe they where referring to dragons/dinosaurs.

Answer 8

Dinosaur bones weren't identified as being from prehistoric creatures until the 19th century, before that any that were found were thought to be from "dragons". As man became more enlightened, science expanded and myths were dismissed.

The Bible is fiction, it's writers were disillusioned men.

Answer 9

Job

behemoths = dinosaurs.

behemoths were huge.

What other creatures would you refer to as a behemoth? an elephant? they are not behemoths.

perhaps a Blue whale - this could have been a levithian since they are usually referred to as huge creatures of the sea.

Answer 10

I would like to address a comment to "Academic". Please explain the occurrence of human foot prints and those of "Dinosaurs" occurring in the same sedimentary rock? Would you say that they were put there afterwards? Maybe a bit more study (academia) would help here.

Answer 11

Why aren't cats mentioned in the bible?

Beware of people telling you "leviathan" and "behemoth" are dinosaurs. They sound like large creatures, to be sure, but not all large creatures are dinosaurs. Also, references to these two words are usually written in poetic language that is probably figurative. Could they be references to dinosaurs? Perhaps...but probably not.