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What has happen to all of the lovely "Creatures/Monsters" in the Bible?

The Bible is the proclaimed book of "God" to many "Christians" however, what has happpen to all the fascinating creatures in the bible? like the..

Leviathon (SMDH) - Job 3:8 ( too many to list)

Behemoth ( IS NOT A DINOSAUR) - Job 40:15

Cockatrice (LMAO) - Jeremiah 8:17

Cherubs (o_O) - Pslams 18:10

Satyr (ABSURD) - Isaiah 13:21

Unicorns (LOL) - Isiah 34:7

Fiery Serpents (.......) - Numbers 21:6

Dragons (!!!!) - Isiah 43:20

Okay, how do i suppose to believe a book that tells me about "Satyrs dancing in the desert?" unicorns coming from heaven! i guess these creatures are "Rare" today! or they were "Dinosaurs" according to "Christians".

If you are a Christian and believe in the bible, then you must also! believe in "Cockatrices"..and if you do, i will be glad to give you my doctors phone & fax number.

Update:

People...these creatures! are "MYTHOLOGY" STOP WITH THE DOGMATIC NONSENSE!..SMDH!

Update 2:

@ Ray G

That is ABSURD! a unicorn is a rhino? that is an insult! a unicorn is a horse with a horn on it's head! NOT A RHINO!

Update 3:

LMAO!!!!!!!

@ Defender

Just shut up! that is a logial fallacy known as "Argumentum Ad Ignorantium" AND ARUGMENT FROM IGNORANCE! THERE ARE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE BEHEMOTH IN THE BIBLE!...a behemoth is not a dinosaur!

1.because there is no evidence for such a dinosaur like the behemoth!

2.A behemoth is a greek mythological creature YOU IDIOT!

And a liviathon and dragon ONCE AGAIN IS NOT A DINOSAUR! you are officialy and IDIOT!

And who are you calling a moron? you are the one WHO BELIEVES IN THE BIBLE!....LMAO! so you also believe that god created light on the 2nd day and created the sun on the fourth?..HAHAHAHAH! you're an IDIOT!

Update 4:

@ Barney

What are you retarded? i followed the subject i asked a question and i provided details so please..use common sense! next time you try to clown someone! it makes you look stupid!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I gave up trying to follow "God's Word" after I was unable to strictly adhere to "His" admonitions regarding my atonement for my period every month.

    Leviticus 15:28 decrees that after her flow stops, a woman who was menstruating must count off seven days before she is considered clean again. On the eighth day, she must present two birds to the priest for an atonement for having had a menstrual discharge.

    Do you have ANY idea how hard it was to catch 2 birds every freaking month? They all got wise to me and started hiding around my cycle. And my priest wasn't too thrilled, either. What kind of priest was he?

    But, in answer to your question, now that I don't read the Bible anymore, I spend more time in my garden. Which is good, because my neighbors smoke a LOT of weed.

    When the wind blows just right, I can get a little stoned, and I can see unicorns and satyrs romping in the flowers! Sometimes I can see Jesus too...but I think that's actually my neighbor, lol.

    Source(s): spiritual agnostic with a garden
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The simple answer: the translators of the King James Version were not as knowledgeable about ancient languages OR about actual animal species as we are today. Put simply: cockatrice and dragon are mistranslations. Satyr is in one passage used in analogy, but the word translated "satyr" can also be accurately translated "male goat" - i.e. billy goat.

    Leviathan and Behemoth describe modern megafauna.

    Cherubs are a type of angel (though, certainly, similar in some respects to sphinxes or karibu). Ezekiel describes cherubim in great detail.

    Unicorn is an archaic English word for rhinoceros. Unfortunately, most modern editions of the King James Version leave out the marginal notes provided by the translators which indicated this.

    Serpents can be fiery without being "alight". They can be fiery in color or as a consequence of their poison. Judging from the description, either or both is likely.

    A) People...these creatures! are "MYTHOLOGY" STOP WITH THE DOGMATIC NONSENSE!..SMDH!

    In 3 cases, yes. In all 3 cases, a correct translation resolves the perceived problem.

    B) That is ABSURD! a unicorn is a rhino? that is an insult! a unicorn is a horse with a horn on it's head! NOT A RHINO!

    Who told you that, and why did you believe them? Seriously - you should read Paracelsus' Bestiary. THEN tell us that a unicorn is a horse with a horn. Apparently, your mythology does not agree with the mythology known by the translators of the KJV.

    C) THERE ARE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE BEHEMOTH IN THE BIBLE!.

    Name two.

    D) A behemoth is a greek mythological creature YOU IDIOT!

    Shame on you! Making up a story and then calling someone an idiot for not knowing the story you just made up!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behemoth

    E) so you also believe that god created light on the 2nd day and created the sun on the fourth?..HAHAHAHAH! you're an IDIOT!

    So let me get this straight - you believe that no light existed before the sun was formed? And you're calling someone *else* an idiot?

    Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

  • 1 decade ago

    1) these creatures never really existed, they're in the Bible simply because of the way the language the transcripts were originally written in were later translated. Or:

    2) thousands of species have become extinct over the centuries. Maybe these were among those species.

    You can take your pick of one of these two, or come up with your own hypothesis.

    Edit: There was a show on tv which used cgi to show how the ancient greeks could have found a mamoth skeleton and, not knowing what the live animal looked like, put it together like a man's skeleton. The cgi showed a creature that looked very much like cyclops did. So many of the so-called mythical creatures could easily have come from man's put bones together incorrectly.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    This is why: It is infantile to think that a lady used to be manufactured from a rib (as individuals/gods had been manufactured from frame constituents in different religions now known as myths), a person used to be swallowed via a fish and survived, a bald guy ordered a undergo to kill forty two kids, a person break up the ocean, guys developed a ship conserving all 'wanted' vegetation and animals + meals to maintain them alive for forty days, the rainbow is a promise not to flood the earth once more, angels fought means up top within the sky and a few had been solid right into a fiery hell, and so on.

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  • Ray G
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You will find that the Old English, into which the Bible was first translated, had many words for animals that are no longer used today. Linnaeus had not yet come along and given the world his little hierarchy of life, so they did not use the modern system of taxonomy. I don't have my references with me, so can't answer all of these, but the unicorns, for instance, were rhinos. I have no idea what Job might have been looking at, unless they were evolutionary throwbacks, what we would call a "living fossil" today. People still occasionally find things that were thought to be extinct.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You moron.

    Leviathan is referenced twice, not too many times to list.

    Behemoth IS a dinosaur; tell me why it isn't!

    Fiery serpents is the literal way of saying poisonous serpents.

    Dragons is the ancient word for dinosaur.

  • Barney
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    If you knew how to follow the subject and article in a sentence you would know.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    What happened to them? Nothing--they never existed. Thanks for your concern though. (People are actually DEFENDING these claims?!?! LUDICROUS!!)

    Source(s): Common sense, logic, biology, zoology, taxonomy, etc...etc...etc....
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