DRAGONS In cHrIsTiAnItY???
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i think its in the book of revelations
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One book I read had dragons portrayed like people. They were in giant houses and had their own political system. Even managed to get enough cloth to wear clothing. I HATED THE BOOK!!!!!!!!
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I am an Orthodox Jew and did a quick check on a few of my books.  The one thing I cannot find is any link between that kind of symbol and Judaism.  It was not used by any of the 12 tribes or any of the various Kings of Israel.\n\nIt doesn't meant here isn't any (I am no authority on this matter), but I cannot find one.  Maybe something more local to you and the area though.  Another option is that it is merely decorative- especially if it is an oriental dragon, orientalism has come and gone in fashion.  (A sudden thought- he wasn't originally Welsh was he?  It is a slim chance, I know)
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You probably saw the Animal Planet special "Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real."\n\nThe fire-breathing flying dragons protrayed on the show certainly never existed, but the dragon myth arose to explain dinosaur bones discovered by ancient people. So, in a sense, dragons were real, just not like the ones seen on this show or in any movie with a heroic knight.
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No.\n\nIf you examine the representations of dragons over time, you can watch them change.  European dragons become increasingly snake-like in their description, until the earliest descriptions are essentially exaggerated traveller's tales of large African snakes.  Fire breathing wasn't added until much later, after dragons came to be identified with Satan in mideval mythology.\n\nChinese dragons are based on the Chinese alligators.  When the alligators exhale, they sometimes blow out a mist of water left in their nostrils, looking like a little cloud.  This was included in pictures of the alligators and the "celestial" alligators of Chinese mythology.  (Basically, all animals had a magical counterpart.)  Pictures of the clouds became exaggerated over time, as the body of the "dragons" became longer.\n\nNumerous animals have been called dragons (leafy sea dragons, komodo dragons, bearded dragons, dragonflies, etc.) but those were all named for the dragon myths, not vice-versa.
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Where does it mention dinosaurs in the Bible?
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dragons, irish dragons....
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Good luck...\n\nCan a Christian believe in evolution?  I do.  I know that this world hasn't always been as we know it now.  I know that I as a homo sapien, evolved from something else.  God can create and destroy as he so chooses.\n\nWhy then are dinosaurs not in the Bible?\nWhy does the Bible not reference such catastrophic events that wiped them out?\n\nIn my opinion, because it isn't something we necessarily need concern ourselves with.  The fact that GIANT lizards once walked this earth is pretty darned fascinating.  Can we learn anything from them?  Unless we want to turn ourselves into giant lizards I think not.\n\nWhat we need to concern ourselves with is the history as it is written in the Bible.  The Bible is not only a religious tool, but also one that can be studied for it's historical content and story.  \n\nDo I believe the stories? YES!  Do I believe that everything happened exactly as it is written? YES!  \n\nI believe the world was created in seven days.  But what is our definition of days compared to Godly days.  \n\nThat we will not know until we can ask our creator.  (But frankly, by the time I die and go to heaven, Days will hardly matter to me anymore.)
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Hello danielb6891.. :)\n\nYes, we do have the Authority to cast out demons..which gives us the Authority over demons, this is what the scripture says:\n\nMark 16\n\n14  ¶ Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.\n \n15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Acts 1.8 \n \n16  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.\n \n17  And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;\n \n18  they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.\n \n============================================================\n\nMatthew 10\n\n8  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.\n \n============================================================\n\nMark 6\n\n13  And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. \n\n============================================================\n\nSome demons only come out with much praying and fasting.. \n\n============================================================\n\nIn Jesus Most Precious Name..\nWith Love..In Christ.. \n \ndemons are not metaphorical..they are real..they come out screaming and cursing..
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This is a hard question though it does not say specficly that dinosaurs was created in the Bible, God did give Adam the authority to name every living creature..\n\n\n\nThe Bible refers to many the common animals we know today. The list includes lions, wolves, bears, sheep, cattle and dogs along with various kinds of birds, rodents, reptiles, and insects. What is interesting is that this extensive list includes three animals that we no longer recognize. These three are (in the original Hebrew language) tanniyn, b@hemowth (yes, it’s spelled correctly—at least as close as we can get in Roman characters), and livyathan.\n\n\nAlthough we alter the spelling of behemoth and Leviathan slightly, we still use those same words in bibles today. However, tanniyn is always translated into another word when we write it in English. Tanniyn occurs 28 times in the Bible and is normally translated “dragon.” It is also translated “serpent,” “sea monster,” “dinosaur,” “great creature,” and “reptile.” Behemoth and Leviathan are relatively specific creatures, perhaps each was a single kind of animal. Tanniyn is a more general term, and it can be thought of as the original version of the word “dinosaur.” The word “dinosaur” was originally coined in 1841, more than three thousand years after the Bible first referred to “Tanniyn.”\n\n\nBehemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24\n\n\nIt “eats grass like an ox.” \nIt “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”) \nIts “bones are like beams of bronze,\nHis ribs like bars of iron.” \n“He is the first of the ways of God.” \n“He lies under the lotus trees,\nIn a covert of reeds and marsh.” \nSome bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”\n\nWe would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”\n\n\nLeviathan has the following attributes according to Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—just enough to make the point.\n\n\n“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.” \n“Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?” \n“His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.” \n“His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.” \n“Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.” \n“On earth there is nothing like him, which is
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The baby dragon in a jar turned out to be a double hoax.\n\nThe original story, reported in several papers a few years ago, was that the dragon was uncovered in a British garage.  The story was that it had been discovered by German scientists in the 1890s and sent to the British Natural History Museum for examination.  The Museum, suspecting a hoax, ordered the specimen destroyed, but the janitor who was supposed to dispose of the specimen intervened and took it home instead.\n\nThe dragon is incredibly detailed, and realistic looking.  It even has the threads of an umbilical cord (which reptiles don't have).\n\nThe reason it's so detailed is that it was actually created quite recently, by Crawley Creatures, the model makers behind BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs television series.  It was commisioned by author Allistair Mitchell (who writes under the pen name P.R. Moredun) as an elaborate means of creating interest in his novel (which at the time had been repeatedly rejected by publishers).\n\nHis book, 'Unearthly History' is a 'thriller for adults and children', and surprisingly enough, features a dragon.\n\nSo it was all a big publicity stunt.  And a fairly successful one too, since it is now being published by Waterstone.
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Look up the Dragon and Serpent in Mythology. They are well known in the Aztec, Chinese and Japanese Mythology as well as many other ancient cultures.\nThere are bodies of water that some say water creatures like the one in Loch ness reside, some have written that they could be creatures of the dinosaur era, I mean if crocodiles/alligators have survived whats to say that others havent.\nWith Aliens, I am sure we are not alone in our galaxy and universe.
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Just like any other mythology and fantasy, there are certain truths to which what we hear in common are real or not. Dragons do not exist, have not existed, and will not exist. They merely were imaginative characterizations of creatures such as dinosaurs. They exist in stories only because of the fact that they resemble something for certain people. That is to say, dragons are mere symbolisms. \n\nThe thing about China and England is that they differ in location and culture, and perhaps much, much more. China's symbolism of the dragon means it portrays fortune, wealth, prosperity and luck. That's why they're usually red. (In Chinese, red symbolizes prosperity). \nIn England, dragons are gray because, there, they symbolize monstrosity or weirdness. English myths and stories used the dragon in the Medieval times as something evil. Something to fear. And so therefore, knights in shining armors had to slay the dragon.\n\nSo, even though Chinese think of the dragon as something good, the British on the other hand think of the dragon as something dangerous. The dragons merely existed in tales and fictional literature; scientifically, there had been no evidence whatsoever of remnants of dragons. ok? get it?
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Read "wonder that was India" by A L Basham . you will find enough to satisfy your curiosity. \n  gerk05, sorry but there were never any dragons in India.
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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Its not the dragons so much as the ALIENS!!! it talks about!!
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For centuries, the Chinese dragon has been a symbol of power and mystery. Depicted in countless legends, both Eastern and Western, the dragon has provoked man to fear and worship it. In medieval Europe, it was a bloodthirsty, fire-breathing figure. Its malevolence and ferociousness struck terror in all. However, in Asia, it is the contrary. The mighty dragon is a mythical beast long celebrated for its benevolence, intelligence and good will. The Chinese dragon has been a common symbol of identity for Far Eastern cultures.\n\nIn fact, Chinese people all over the world are affectionately known as “lung de chuan ren”, or the "descendants of the dragon”. There are several distinct species of Chinese dragons. The Horned Dragon is considered to be the mightiest. The Celestial Dragon supports the heavens and protects the Gods. The Earth Dragon rules all of the earth. The Spiritual Dragon controls the wind and rain. The Treasure Dragon is the keeper of precious metals and gems. The Winged Dragon is the only dragon with wings. The Coiling Dragon dwells in the ocean. The Yellow Dragon is a hornless dragon known for its scholarly knowledge.