Dinosours

Any mention of them in any religious texts?

How does their existence fit into your beliefs? Does it even matter?

 

Job, chapters 40 and 41.

 

Unicorns and Dragons, jeez, this just gets more confusing. Arent these mythical beasts?

Know of a good site to find the history behind the books. Who, where, when they were written?

 

Job 40:15-18 (brachiosaur?)

"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron."


Job 41: 1, 7, 9, 12-17, 22-31 (pleisiosaur?)

"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

...Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?


...Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
...I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?

Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?

His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together; each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.

They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.

...Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.

The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

Arrows do not make him flee; slingstones are like chaff to him.

A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment."

 

Official NIV history on the book of Job

 

But dinysores are a million years old and stuff.

 

brachiosaurs didn't have bronze tubes for bones. obviously some poetic license in effect. so basically, a large powerful animal that eats grass. there are many.

sounds more like a turtle than a dinosaur. again, with the poetic license of somebody who's trying to make something sound extra, extra scary.

 

Super.

It's 5 am. Let it go man. Just let it go.

 

Wooly mammoth/elephant & Crocodile?

 

possibly. Or like super said, someone embellishing tales to make them more "ooh". Written by men after all....

IMO::: I'm a scientist (or I was before i grew up), so I'll use what I learned in my paleontology classes and state what is obvious to me, and that is that the existence of what are commonly referred to as "dinosaurs" and "humans" were separated in time by many millions of years. Many ways, IMO, to prove this, but I'm not going to shit on anyone else's beliefs.