Where are dinosaurs first mentioned in the bible?

Answer 1

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There are two sides to this issue, depending on one's view of the historical timeline. For the sake of this answer, let's refer to them as "young earth" vs. "old earth." In no way shall these sections attempt to defend or discredit either position. The Young Earth idea supports the literal interpretation of days and years in Genesis, resulting in a roughly 6,000 year timeline for Earth and the universe. This idea faces the burden of reconciling itself with scientific discoveries and conclusions; some solutions include:

• space-time warping to make light from "billions of light-years away" travel more quickly to our eyes;
• the idea that the universe was created "old," or with everything, including lightspeed forces, already in place to support the entire system instantaneously;
• the Biblical flood accounts for misinterpretations of archeological evidence that supports an old Earth.

In this model, dinosaurs were around until about the time of the flood, and some actually boarded Noah's Ark. Some supporting this view believe that the Old Testament references to "leviathan" (Jonah, Job) and "behemoth" (Job, Psalms) and other large animals were, in fact, references to dinosaurs made before current terminology was accepted. Generic extinction, perhaps as a result of the catastrophic environmental changes brought about as a result of the flood, is credited for the lack of dinosaurs among today's fauna.

Answer 2

Dinosaurs are not mentioned in The Bible but it seems likely they would have roamed with the other animals. They would have been destroyed from the Flood.

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The Bible does not say anything about any dinosaurs.

Answer 3

if you are looking for dinosaurs in the bible, you won't find it under the word "Dinosaur" (meaning terrible lizard) because that name was invented by Sir Richard Owen in 1841! long after bible times. However, the bible does mention a creature that could be a dinosaur in Job 40:15-19: "Behold the behemoth, which i made with you; he eats grass like an ox, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly. he moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are like tubes of bronze; his limbs are like bars of iron. he is the chief of the way of God: his maker brings near his sword." ....... I know. i dont really get it either! most scientist say this creature was an elephant, or a hippopotamus. But elehants and hippo's dont have tails like a cedar tree at all! they tiny tails that are only 60cm long! cedar trees are way over that length. many christians think that "behemoth" PRO:(be-he-mith) was a Dinosaur called, "BRACHIOSAURUS" one of the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived. it had massive legs and feet. a 20 metre long neck and tail (like a cedar tree!) So that proves that Evolution probably didn't exist.

Answer 4

No. The last dinosaurs became extinct around 65 million years ago, while the stories in the Bible deal with just the last few thousand years.

Some pious Christians see biblical references to the leviathan and the behemoth as possible references to the largest of the dinosaurs, but the leviathan and the behemoth were really just mythical chaos monsters similar to the chaos monsters of other religions of the ancient Near East.

Answer 5

Dinosaurs are indeed in the Bible. Take note that the word dinosaur (which means terrible lizard) was not invented until the 1800s. Instead of dinosaur they used words in the bible like dragon, behemoth, leviathan and others. Job 41-42 mention both behemoth and leviathan and in Isaiah it talks about the leviathan being a terrible serpent and a horrible reptile.

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no they are not mentioned in the bible and neither is the ice age.

Answer 6

A:Dinosaurs are never mentioned in the Bible, as they became extinct around 65 million years ago and the biblical authors knew nothing of them.

Some interpret biblical references to Yamm, Leviathan and Behemoth as references to dinosaurs, but these were mythical chaos monsters that are also attested in the religious writings of other nations in the ancient Near East. In the Bible and in other Near Eastern religions, Leviathan was a serpent with seven heads.

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No dinosaurs were extant by the time God made man in His image on the sixth day of His re-creation of a ruined earth... and are not mentioned in the Bible.

They became extinct sometime between the first verse of Genesis 1, when God created the universe; including the earth -- and the second verse, that tells us that something caused the earth to become "without form and void" [a ruined, wasted planet].

These two first verses of Genesis 1 make no mention of any kind of "timeline." It neither says WHEN God created the universe and the earth... nor does it say HOW MUCH TIME ELAPSED between the original creation and the moment when the earth became, at least in this account, inexplicably destroyed. [Hint: "there was war in heaven" - Rev.12:7]

But, since dinosaurs have never been seen sharing the earth with man in any accounts of recorded history [except in movies, books, and men's imaginations] and the fossil record reveals that they did exist -- it becomes clear, biblically speaking, that they were destroyed along with every other living thing on earth in Genesis verse 2, chapter 1; by whatever caused the earth to become "without form and void."

Fossils are the result of "sudden" and "catastrophic" upheaval on the earth. Living creatures and other things became suddenly trapped in layers of liquid earth, some sealed and permanently set... some instantly frozen... and in some cases "pressure cooked" perhaps for centuries or millennia... all permanently preserved, with no opportunity for the slow, natural stages of decomposition.

Genesis 1:2 also doesn't say "how long the earth remained in its ruined state following its destruction" before God decided to remodel it. The Bible begins counting time on earth from the moment Jesus [the Creator God of the Old Testament - the WORD - John 1:3] said, "Let there be light" [verse 3] -- approximately 6000 years ago.

"...and the evening [nighttime] and the morning [daytime] were the first day." (verse 5) The first 24-hour day.

Dinosaurs were destroyed before God restored the ruined earth to sustain man... and mention of them in the Bible is pertinent neither to man's Salvation and his future birth into God's Family, nor to the restoration of the Kingdom of God to earth -- the real message of the Bible.

Answer 7

There's no mention of dinosaurs in the Bible. The authors and actors in the Bible knew nothing of them. Dinosaurs were extinct long before these people were born.

ADDITIONALLY:

Dinosaurs became extinct before God CREATED the first two people... long before these two created mortal sexual beings [male and female created He them] even began "birthing" others.

Dinosaurs were swallowed up by the earth sometime between the first and second verses of Genesis 1 -- before verse 3 of Genesis 1; when God began to "RE-create" a "ruined earth" in the famed "seven-day creation account" [which is actually a refurbishing of the ruined, already-existing earth; not the creation of it from nothing]. They were swallowed up sometime between the original "perfect" creation of the earth and the universe in verse 1, which mentions no "time frame" as to how long the creation of the universe took; nor how much time passed afterward, to the time when the earth "suddenly," without explanation in the Genesis account, became "WITHOUT FORM and VOID" in verse 2.

We must look elsewhere in Scripture for an explanation for this ruination of the earth: like in Revelation 12:

"THEN THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN. Michael and the angels under his command fought the Dragon [Satan] and his angels. And the Dragon lost the battle and was FORCED OUT OF HEAVEN. This great Dragon - the ancient Serpent called the Devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world - WAS THROWN DOWN TO EARTH WITH ALL HIS ANGELS." (Rev.12:7-9 NLT New Living Translation)

"...'LORD, even the demons obey us WHEN WE USE YOUR NAME!' 'Yes,' He [Jesus] told them, I SAW SATAN FALLING FROM HEAVEN AS A FLASH OF LIGHTNING!'" (Luke 10:17-18 NLT)

Can anyone guess what happens to a planet when impacted by powerful spiritual forces [or spirit beings such as angels who wield all the forces and laws of nature] such as lightning, meteors, asteroids, volcanic eruption and earthquakes?

If you can't... depending upon the amount of the forces applied to the impact upon the planet... it's quite probable that the planet would "become without form and void!"

The originally "inspired" Wording for "without form" is the Hebrew: "tohuw" [to'-hoo]. Which means:

"...to lie waste; a desolation (of surface); i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain: KJV--confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness." (Strong's Definitions)

The Bible tells us that "God did NOT MAKE THE EARTH 'TOHUW' [empty; in vain, a worthless thing] IN THE BEGINNING when He made the universe [see Isa.45:18 where the same word, tohuw, is used]. God is PERFECT, and He doesn't make things "imperfectly." Therefore, the earth BECAME a "worthless, empty, desert wasteland" [tohuw] sometime AFTER the original PERFECT creation of the earth and the universe in Genesis 1.

No... the earth's destruction and imperfect global condition OCCURRED... HAPPENED... later [no biblical time frame is mentioned between Gen.1; verses 1 & 2], when Satan and his demons rebelled against God's Authority before man was created; fomenting that "war in heaven"... which, in turn... DESTROYED THE EARTH WITH THE IMPACT OF THEM UPON IT when they were FORCED out of heaven!

This is when whatever lifeforms were alive on the original earth [like dinosaurs] DIED! The impact upon the earth wasn't "gradual," taking hundreds, or thousands, or millions and billions of years to occur. It was "sudden" and "catastrophic!"

Entire herds of dinosaurs and other creatures [whatever there were, then], globally, were SWALLOWED UP, WHOLE, BY A SUDDENLY-RAVAGED EARTH in a BRIEF MOMENT of time. They didn't die a slow, normal death with time to "decompose" and return to the "dust of the earth" like happens usually in death.

These herds were "buried alive!" The earth opened up, swallowed them individually and/or in herds... slammed shut upon them, crushing them with whatever immense pressures and temperatures the earth can impose upon itself and the things within it -- and the earth PRESSURE COOKED THEM... for who knows how long before the LORD decided to begin to "RE-create" the earth in Genesis 1, verse 3.

It's evident that God waited long enough for them to "cook sufficiently" beneath the earth's surface at the proper pressures and temperatures, at least, to create all the "crude oil reserves" that man uses now to run the errantly-governed world he has created for himself.

The biblical evidence is that no man "saw" or even "knew of " the existence of any dinosaurs until he began to discover their fossils buried beneath the earth's surface. The earth the first two people saw was PERFECTLY MADE... with the plants and animals we see extant upon the earth, today [no dinosaurs]... and it was met with God's wholehearted approval:

".... Then God looked over all He had made, and He saw that IT WAS EXCELLENT IN EVERY WAY..." (Gen.1:31 NLT)

Answer 8

Science tells us that the last of the dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago, long before the first man on earth, and therefore they simply do not fit into a biblical timeline. Both 'Young-earth' and 'Old-earth' attempts to make them fit fail with fatal flaws.

Although the first creation story in Genesis (1:1-2:4a) has beasts of the earth created before man (although on the same 'day'), they are all created after the birds. However, we know that dinosaurs existed long before birds. This alone creates an impossibility in harmonising this creation account with the evidence of dinosaurs. Even if we adopt the 'Old-earth' notion of a biblical day symbolising a great period of time, the sequence of creation is wrong.

The second creation story in Genesis (beginning in Genesis 2:4b) has beasts of the earth created after the first man (Adam), not only contrary to the first creation story but contrary to scientific evidence. Morever, the biblical genealogy from Adam to the Israelites indicates that Adam was created around 4000 BCE, far too late for the time of the dinosaurs. The 'Old-earth' notion of a biblical day symbolising a great period of time is of no use to us here, not only because the sequence is wrong but because the biblical genealogy of the human race prevents this.

Dinosaurs can not be fitted properly into the timeline of either biblical creation account, although the first creation account is a marginally better fit than the second.

Answer 9

They aren't really mentioned that much, but the Old Testament mentions dinosaurs a few times in the Book of Job

Answer 10

Their creation by God is stated explicitly in Genesis 1:21. The Hebrew word (taninim) refers to various types of reptiles.