Dinosaurs

[reformedct]

What is the biblical evidence for dinosaurs? also maybe any extrabiblical early Jewish/ancient literature?

Did God create dinosaurs in the time of Adam and Eve? hard to imagine a t-rex eating grass lol

[Kahtar]

What is the biblical evidence for dinosaurs? also maybe any extrabiblical early Jewish/ancient literature?

Did God create dinosaurs in the time of Adam and Eve? hard to imagine a t-rex eating grass lol

That IS kinda hard to imagine.
There is of course the leviathon, behemoth thing the descriptions of which suggest dino like attributes.
It is my understanding that all reptiles continue to grow their entire lifetimes. Genesis suggests that life expectancy was much greater prior to the flood.
If an aligator, for instance, was to live for 1500 years, how big would it get? Or a comoto dragon?

[BrckBrln]

Dinos lived long before the time of the Bible.

[Partaker of Christ]

Some say that 'dragons' are Dino's is scripture.

It is also said that, there are certain reptiles (like Crocks) that never stop growing. If in the beginning, man lived to very old age, then perhaps also every other living creature. That would allow for these such reptiles to grow to huge sizes.

[Partaker of Christ]

Dinos lived long before the time of the Bible.

You know this how?

[BrckBrln]

You know this how?

That thing called science.

[Partaker of Christ]

That thing called science.

So, we measure the truth of word of God against science?

[reformedct]

So, we measure the truth of word of God against science?

i think what he means is that by the time the Bible was written dinosaurs were long gone. but i could be misunderstanding

[BrckBrln]

So, we measure the truth of word of God against science?

Nowhere did I imply such a thing. I'm simply accepting what the book of nature, the nature that God created, tells us. And if it doesn't contradict something in the Word of God, then I see no reason not to believe it.

[Partaker of Christ]

Nowhere did I imply such a thing. I'm simply accepting what the book of nature, the nature that God created, tells us. And if it doesn't contradict something in the Word of God, then I see no reason not to believe it.

If Dinos died before the fall, doesn't that contradict the Word of God?

Sin came by Adam, and death by sin. If there was death before Adam, then there must have been sin in the world before Adam.

[BrckBrln]

If Dinos died before the fall, doesn't that contradict the Word of God?

Sin came by Adam, and death by sin. If there was death before Adam, then there must have been sin in the world before Adam.

It says death spread to all men, no mention of animals.

[Psalms Fan]

I don't think the Bible speaks much, if any, on dinosaurs (leviathan and behemoth may or may not be dinosaurs). But that doesn't mean that they did or didn't exist.

Also, dinosaurs are not just big lizards. Lizards are lizards, and dinosaurs are dinosaurs. Just like amphibians are amphibians and mammals are mammals. Dinosaurs have different bone structures than lizards, and are in fact closer to birds than to lizards. There are remarkable similarities between raptors and birds.

I don't have a doctrinal/theological answer for you about dinosaurs, since they're not a matter that God saw fit to give us as a matter of salvation history or anything pertaining to that in Scripture. I can give some words about the Resurrection or Christ's sufferings or the Trinity, but I don't have too many about dinosaurs or aliens or the ozone layer.

[Jemand]

If Dinos died before the fall, doesn't that contradict the Word of God?

Sin came by Adam, and death by sin. If there was death before Adam, then there must have been sin in the world before Adam.

No, the fact that dinosaurs lived hundreds of millions of years before any men walked the earth does not contradict the Word of God; it merely contradicts some inaccurate interpretations of it. The Bible makes no mention of dinosaurs, probably because they lived during a time that the Bible makes no mention of. Genesis 1:2 is understood by some people to be a reference to a time following that of dinosaurs but preceding the time of Adam.

Gen. 1:2. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. (NASB, 1995)

If that interpretation is correct, the existence and the death of the dinosaurs are irrelevant to the rest of the Bible and do not contradict it. And, of course, there are other interpretations of Genesis that allow for the existence and the death of the dinosaurs without contradicting anything written in the Bible. The most popular of these interpretations is that Gen. 1-11 is a series of epic tales that teach spiritual truths but which are not an accurate account of historical events. The story of Noah’s Ark strongly suggests the accuracy of this interpretation.

[tgallison]

That thing called science.

What science says is truth today, may well be a fairytale tomorrow.

To many false premises to suit me. Besides, who would trust man over God?


Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in thy sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ, Terrell

[BrckBrln]

Besides, who would trust man over God?

I am trusting what God did in history that man has discovered.