It has been suggested that dinosaurs didn't exist because they are not mentioned in the Bible. Do Christians believe dinosaurs existed?

Answer 1

Answer:God created all living things on day 5 and 6. This includes dinosaurs. There are many animals not mentioned in The Bible, kangaroos, for example. This does not mean that I as a Christian don't believe in kangaroos. 1.) LeviathanThe Bible does make mention of creatures that have become extinct that we don't see today. For example the "leviathan".

Job 41:1 (KJV) Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:2 (KJV) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Job 41:3 (KJV) Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Job 41:4 (KJV) Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Job 41:5 (KJV) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Job 41:6 (KJV) Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 (KJV) Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Job 41:8 (KJV) Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Job 41:9 (KJV) Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Job 41:10 (KJV) None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Psalms 74:13 (KJV) Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Psalms 74:14 (KJV) Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalms 104:26 (KJV) There go the ships: there isthat leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

Isaiah 27:1 (KJV) In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2.) BehemothAnother animal mentioned is the "behemoth".

Job 40:15 (KJV) Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

Job 40:16 (KJV) Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Job 40:17 (KJV) He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

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

Job 40:19 (KJV) He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Job 40:20 (KJV) Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

Job 40:21 (KJV) He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Job 40:22 (KJV) The shady trees cover him withtheir shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Job 40:23 (KJV) Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Job 40:24 (KJV) He taketh it with his eyes: hisnose pierceth through snares.

Answer:Christians believe many things. There is much agreement and disagreement just as there is with other religions. In general though, most Christians believe that dinosaurs are simply not discussed in the assembly of books called the bible. There is the short answer.

Why aren't the dinosaurs mentioned at all? Why is the age before man when God created the angels; and the time when one-third of the angels rebelled under the archangel Lucifer; mentioned only very briefly? Perhaps because most of the bible deals with the children of God beginning with Adam, who was created long after the angels were created; and long after some of the angels rebelled; and long after the dinosaurs lived and died.

One great theory (and a very old one) is that the dinosaurs most likely died off and the earth made uninhabitable due to Lucifer's rebellion. In Genesis 1:2, we read that the earth was without form and void. The two Hebrew words translated here as "without form" and "void" are bohuw and tohuw which more accurately translate into "undistinguishable ruin" and "lie waste or desolate". Read these same exact words in Jeremiah 4:23 where Jeremiah is describing Jerusalem after its total destruction by war.

So in Genesis 1:3 and on, we read how God took an earth that was laid waste and in ruins (after the dinosaurs) and made in ready to begin his plans with mankind, made in his own image and likeness.

There is more to the bible and true Christianity that what you hear from the graduates of the minister factories.

Answer 2

Most Christians, both Creationists and those who advocate Evolution, argue that dinosaurs did exist. Christians who support Evolution typically argue that dinosaurs existed in the timeframe advocated by Paleontologists (roughly between 220-65 million years ago). Creationists typically argue that dinosaurs existed until the time of Noah, when they became extinct.

Answer 3

Jewish answer: Dinosaurs are mentioned explicitly, in Genesis 1:21. The relevant Hebrew word is mistranslated as "sea monsters," but elsewhere refers to land-creatures as well (Exodus ch.7).