Are dinosaurs ever mentioned in the Bible?
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Not explicitly. But many Christians take the liberty to give a compatible meaning to the Creation story. When God made the animals of the earth in one day...some say that that includes dinosaurs and that one day in "God's time" is symbolic for a period of time that's extraordinarly long in human terms.\n\nThen again, I've also heard people who dismiss the whole dinosaur discovery thing as something the devil planted in the ground to shake people's faith.
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if you would read the bible you would know and to answer the question  it is almost the same as the universe he was made of many particles and he has parents i wonder who made dinosaures if they were on earth before humans
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Technically dinosaurs were not even known to have exist until the first evidence was discovered in either the 18th or 19th century. In the book of Genesis note: not to be interepted literally!! It states ( after the life in the sea,animals on land) Sorry I can't quote exactly however; look at all the animals that exist. The Bible would be a LONG book!
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I can at least give documentation that God does exits.\nNow take the Bible. It was written many hundreds of years apart.\nThe book of Job. this was written hundreds of years before Christ.\nIn Job, God explains to Job how the behemoth, or, dinosaurs lived. At the time of Job, the dinosaurs were dead millions of years. But God describes how the dinosaurs lived. Man can describe what the bones of dinosaurs look like, but, not how they live.\nExample 2. \nThe book of Psalm was also written around the time of King David. The book of Psalm describes the Crucifixion of Jesus.\nEven how the roman soldiers would be gambling for his clothes.\n\nChristians at least have a bases for believing.
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Nobody really knows for sure. Not mentioned anywhere in the bible or in any historical records.
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It doesn't.  The dinosaurs existed millions of years before mankind. They died off around 65 million years ago.
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The 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\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.” To make things clearer, we constructed the following table comparing the scientific names with the Biblical names tanniyn, behemoth, and Leviathan.\n\n\n\n\n \n \n&#92;Did Dinosaurs Really Exist?\nDinosaurs certainly did roam the Earth in the ancient past! Fossils of dinosaurs have been found all over the world, and their bones are displayed in museums for all to see. Scientists have been able to reconstruct many of their skeletons, so we know much about how they may have looked.\n\nWhen Were Dinosaurs Found?\nThe story of their discovery began back in the 1820s, when Gideon Mantell, an English doctor, found some unusual teeth and bones in a quarry. Dr Mantell realized there was something very different about these animal remains, and believed that he had found an entirely new group of reptiles. By 1841, about nine types of these different reptiles had been uncovered, including two called Megalosaurus and Iguanodon.\n\nAt this time, a famous British scientist (and creationist), Dr Richard Owen, coined the name ‘Dinosauria,’ meaning ‘terrible lizard,’ for this is what the huge bones made him think of.\n\nWhat Makes Dinosaurs Different?\nOther than the huge size of some dinosaurs, the major feature that really distinguishes dinosaurs from other reptiles (such as crocodiles) is the position of their limbs. Dinosaurs had posture that was fully erect, similar to that in mammals. Most other reptiles have limbs in a sprawling position. For instance, compare the way a crocodile ‘walks’ with that of, say, a cow. Dinosaurs would have moved like a cow, with the limbs supporting the body from beneath. Crocodiles ‘waddle,’ as their limbs project sideways from their body.\n\nHow Big Were Dinosaurs?\nSome were as small as chickens, and others were even smaller. Of course, some dinosaurs were very large, weighing in at an estimated 80 tons and standing 40 feet high! The average size of a dinosaur, however, was probably about that of a small horse. \n\nWhen Did Dinosaurs Live?\nThe story we have all heard from movies, television, newspapers, and most magazines and textbooks is that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs ‘ruled the Earth’ for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists’ story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists
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No. This is because Dinosaurs died out around 65 Million years ago. The bible refers to events in the last few thousand years. According to fundementalist christians the world was created 4000 years ago. The are even building a museum in America which shows Dinosaurs living side by side with humans. THIS IS NOT CORRECT AND IS INSANE TO BELIEVE. There was a programme on the BBC on this museum a few days ago which showed one of those big horned dinosaurs with a sadlle on which gave me a good laugh! I think their reason for the Dinosaurs not surviving the flood was that they couldn't fit on the ark, which also gave me a good laugh ;)
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That's interesting that you ask if they were his pets because of this verse from the book of Job that describes some type of gigantic creature with a Hebrew word whose translation is uncertain and long before the modern term "dinosaur" came into use.\n\nHere God is talking to Job about what He can do and asking Job if he thinks that he can do the same.\n\nJob 41:1  "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?  (2)  Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?  (3)  Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?  (4)  Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?\n\nliwyātān: I. A masculine proper noun meaning Leviathan. It describes a huge indomitable being that God created and whom only He fully comprehends and controls.\n\nA further description God gives of this animal makes it seem like a sea going fire breathing dragon.\n\nJob 41:15  His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.  (16)  One is so near to another that no air can come between them.  (17)  They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.  (18)  His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.  (19)  Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.  (20)  Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.  (21)  His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.\n\n\nHere's another unknown creature that God asks Job about.\n\nJob 40:15  Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.  (16)  Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.  (17)  He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.  (18)  His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.  (19)  He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.  (20)  Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.  (21)  He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.  (22)  The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.  (23)  Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.  (24)  He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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It doesn't prove anything that cats are not mentioned in the Bible.  There is no mention of any kind of pets in the Bible....dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.  As far as I can tell, people in Bible days didn't keep pets.  They had enough things to contend with in their lives without trying to keep an animal alive and well.
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They're mentioned in the Bible I think in the way that a primitive society would write about dinosaurs. As giant beast and dragons and so forth.\n\nIf you listen to most Christians rhetoric about the dinosaurs, you'll realize they cannot reconcile archaeological findings with their own beliefs. Many of them deny the existence of dinosaurs all together. Some say they're not as old as science has claimed. Some even say they lived on other planets and when G*d used the material to make the earth he took the bones with it.\n\nThe fact of the matter is we are living with people who use an outdated reference guide for life. They cannot admit that they've been had. The earth is not 6000 years old. The earth is not 10,000 years old. Dinosaurs DID exist. And we evolved from a species similar to ourselves.\n\nI won't claim G*D did not create the dinosaurs....as I don't know. \nAnd I won't claim science is perfect....we all know it's not.\nBut when you take the overwhelming preponderance of evidence and throw it all out the window because of a book your mommy told you was true.....well, that's just stupid.
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I don't really know which was first, but I would have to guess dinosaurs.  Remember, that one of God's weeks is probably not a week to us.  There are some rules on time in the Bible, and in one scripture (can't remember where it is in the Bible), one day for God is a thousand years for us.
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I have studied earth science. \nFirst of all, their scientific name is a (best estimate) i.e. in their opinion. so the wee table is just their own version of what refers to modern day equivalent in science. \nThe only evidence they use to suggest the bible is talking about a dinosaur (rather than elephant or hippo) is a tail like a Cedar.  this could apply to crocodile but they don't mention that - apart from to say "oh -BTW it can't be a croc eh?" without actually giving any decent reason as to why.\nI don't know why I can't read Job 41 18-21without realising it breathes fire.  Such obviousness escapes me.  As also does the beetle chat. err...because one thing (and I haven't bothered to look up if it can) breathes fire, another surely can? What - how does that work? Because a flea can jump 50 times it's own heigth, can I? Also, all earth scientist would love to have a fire breathing lizard, but no studies have proved it's existance.   \nThen later (I'm skimming this now, there's loads of made up stuff), they say "Nobody has ever proven that the Bible contains any inaccurately recorded information" - well I'd kind of like to see the other way round.  Proving a negative is, well, impossible.  If I said there is a planet made of jelly a milllion light years away, does that make me correct until proven wrong? \nthen they do that wonderful thing of "hmm yes we have evidence of dinosaurs being created one day before man etc etc...but in order to see it you have to read through pages and pages of more subjective chat", personally I gave up cos if they are that confident they would put there evidence right in their on their page, or at least give a description of how.  \nThis page is someone's belief and doen't make me think anything other than what I have studied through rational science.
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Read Job 41:15-24. This animal "behemoth" does line up with all the features of a dinosaur. And it doesn't fully line up with any other animal that I know.\nAn interesting fact might be that Job is considered to be the oldest book in the Bible.
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Sadly, there are no dinosaurs left living today.  All evidence indicates that they completely died out 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.\n\nThere is some evidence to indicate that birds are descended from one branch of the dinosaurs (not everyone agrees on this), and so in some sense it could be said that dinosaurs are not truly extinct, but that's like saying that since we're still around the Australopithecines are not extinct.  \n\nThe animals that bear the characteristic features that lead them to be classified as dinosaurs are indeed extinct.\n\nCrocodiles and alligators are somewhat related to the ancestors of the dinosaurs, but are not and never were dinosaurs themselves.  They share some of the features of the dinosaurs (teeth set in socketed roots in the jaw etc.), and are the most 'advanced' reptiles alive today, but they are not dinosaurs.\n\nThere are some who claim that creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster ('Nessie') are Plesiosaurs that somehow managed to survive for millions of years, but there is very little evidence to suggest that Nessie actually exists, and even if she did, Plesiosaurs were not Dinosaurs.  They're Plesiosaurs, a totally different lineage with considerably divergent skull morphology from the Dinosaurs.\n\nThere is a creature rumoured to exist deep in the jungles of the Congo, known as Mkele Mbembe.  Descriptions of Mkele Mbembe sound as though they might (might) be describing a small sauropod Dinosaur of some kind.  If Mkele Mbembe exists (doubtful), and it turns out that it is indeed a living Dinosaur (also doubtful) then we would have a living Dinosaur still on the planet, and we'd have to try and figure out why no Dinosaur fossils have shown up anywhere on Earth in that 65 million year span.
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If you look through time, God only existed from th time when humans got themselves educated, to a certain degree, they worshipped anything like the sun rising, water in a stream, etc. Before that with the earth being around for over 4 1/2 billion years did the dinosaurs believe in God?
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Yes.  Egytian hyroglyphics show dinosars.  Other cave drawings show dinosaurs.  Europe and Asia both have a lot of mythology about dragons.  Leviation, mentioned in Job 40, breathed fire.