Then perhaps he was describing Cthulu?
Posted on 03/08/2010 6:27:24 PM PST by TaraP
No, just speculating. Not all languages would have a word for an elephant's trunk.
Satan is described as a *Serpent* in the garden...I had wondered why was he on earth in the first place and where were his angels that had already been cast out of heaven.
I don’t know if we can conclude *Dragons* and *Serpents* can have any meaning to the extinction of the (Dinosaur*)?
lol now thats a stretch, i’m sure i can name lots of things that move slowly in the wind, that can better describe an elephants tail. A cedar implies very large and thick.
I thought Argentinasaurus was the biggest??
It was from Job’s time, right? He was supposedly before even Abraham. Personally, I lean towards elephants, what with the “drinking up of the river”, “eating grass” and enjoying the shade. Sure sounds like them and it was around the same geographical area.
My bad.
The thing was back-donkeywards? Is that better?
Sounds like a giant Crock to me.
I know this is a Religion Forum and all, but the “force in the navel of HIS belly” maybe describing a huge male sex organ and his “the sinews of his stones (testicles?)”. A BIG, Bull African elephant, yep! He “moved” his tail like a cedar, doesn’t mean his tail was “like” a cedar.
This is fun!
I say we should decide this issue concerning the scientific basis on a vote of journalists and climate scientists, so that we can settle this science and stop all contradictory conclusions once and for all.
Roll call vote...Gore? Nay. Obama? Nay...
Some interesting Spirtual food for thought is:
Maybe SATAN created Dinos?
The Bible gives a wonderful illustration of the hopeless nature of Satan’s insurrection. When he made his move, God cast him out of heaven so fast, his ejection resembled a bolt of lightning streaking across the sky. Jesus said, “I was watching Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18).
Even though God cast Satan out of heaven, He did not forever ban him from re-entering the heavenly realm. The account of Job tells us that the devil is still able to enter the gates of paradise.
“One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. The LORD said to Satan, ‘Where have you come from?’ Satan answered the LORD, ‘From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it’” (Job 1:6-7).
What was Satan doing on the earth?
There are a lot of things on earth even today that I don't think have any purpose. ;o)
This creature is not extinct, and all will see it one day. It is in the “deep” (the Second Heaven, or space), not in the ocean.
They found a bigger one, in southern India.
Lets hear it for the dinos!!!
Yes, because an elephant is a stretch but dinosaurs in Job aren't...;)
A cedar implies very large and thick.
And the verse - if you read it as it is written - does not say it is a cedar, just that it MOVES like a cedar. There is NO COMPARISON of the physical tail to the physical size or scale of the cedar tree! The ONLY comparison there is that the movement of the trunk is like how the cedar tree moves.
Really, the words are pretty plain and straight forward; it MOVES like the cedar tree. It is NOT like a tree in size at all. Trying to make that comparison IS a stretch.
We must be on the same wavelength..only you’re quicker on the post button. :o)
Then perhaps he was describing Cthulu?
Satan “creating” anything? NuhUh. Don’t think he has that kinda power.
read all of job 40 and 41, to keep it all in context. You will see an elephant is not what is being talked about
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