Posted on 03/08/2010 6:27:24 PM PST by TaraP
Job 40:15-24 Behemoth
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. http://www.answersincreation.org/job4041a.htm There is one certainty about Job 40-41…they are not dinosaurs that lived 6,000 years ago. With the possibilities presented, I leave it up to the reader to decide for themselves what the correct answer is. We probably won’t know for certain until we get to heaven.
What do I believe? I lean toward the dinosaur theory. You may say, “How can Bible writers, such as David in Psalm 74, write about a dinosaur if it lived 65 million years ago?” This is simple. There were certainly dinosaur fossils available in Bible times.
They are in the rocks now, so they must have been in the rocks then. David, and others, probably saw these fossils, and wrote about them (see Paleontology Pioneers and Aboriginal Dinosaurs?
Do you agree with this theory?
yes.
Elephants, Buffalo, Hippopotamus, etc.
I suspect God, or His Angels, told the writers about dinosaurs. Or, since God made man in His own image, man was intelligent enough to figure it out.
I had always thought the Dinos died in the great flood.
I just don’t believe the Dinos were killed by an Asteroid like they are saying as *It’s Official*
Rosie?
Why didn’t Noah take a pair onto the ark?
I don't believe an impact alone killed off the dinosaurs. It just facilitated their demise. The flood you spoke of would have happened thousands of years ago. The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, so the time line doesn't fit with the theory of them being killed in the flood.
With a tail like a cedar? I don’t think so.
17a He moveth his tail like a cedar:
“Elephants, Buffalo, Hippopotamus, etc.” Wrong! Read it again.What is described doesn’t roam this world today.
Some say Noah did, but after the flood they starved to death and went extinct.....
Sadly, like unicorns, the dinosaurs were playing silly games.
sounds like it.
I thought that all dinos were hatched from eggs.
That’s true....So dinos existed long before the creation of human beings but their had to be a purpose why Dinos were on the earth.....
Problem with that is this line: 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar:
I don't know the answer, but it's difficult to think of a creature that has lived in what most believe is the period of man's presence on the earth that fits the description of the behemoth. Interesting thing about the book of Job is that no one knows when it was written. Some think it may be the oldest book of the Bible. Unlike most of the other books of the Old Testament, there's no reference that makes it fit into a time frame. Some think it's a folk tale. Others think it's something from way, way, back.
They did stumble across dinosaur bones back in ancient times but mistook them for other things. That’s why they believed in the Titans: they thought the bones were of huge one eyed people!
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