Dinosaur in the Bible, not a hippo, not an elephant?

Right you are Dante. This scripture is definitely describing a dinosaur , of some kind.... it could also be a brontosaur. I dont know why scientists have so much trouble with man and dinosaur living at the same time . All one has to do is go to Glenrose Texas where a human footprint is superimposed on a dinosaur footprint in limestone! Obviously most of the dinosaur bones we find were fossilized by Noahs flood. They even deny there was a floode! Talk about willingly ignorant!!!

2 Peter 3:3- 7 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

I respect and admire your well-thought out effort here but the serious flaw in your thinking here is contained in the passages:

23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

No creature on earth, not even the largest dinosaur ever, could have done this. It is physiological impossible. No animal on earth could have drunken up a river. His belly couldn't have held that much water.

So we have to conclude either (a) this passage from the Scriptures was either originally mistranslated or doctored in some way or (b) these passages were never meant to be taken literally.

It is written that 'To God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day.' What this means is that God's timetable for creating all other creatures, including dinosaurs, could have lasted millions of years before man was created in God's image. Our time is not our Lord's time. Stop trying to give the world a ten thousand year old timetable and you'll start seeing how foolish such claims are.

Deal with it. Dinosaurs were on earth and gone long before man showed up.

EDIT: The logic of God's timetable doesn't seem to work with you so let's try the correct translations, like:

17 His tail hardens like a cedar; the sinews of his tendons are knit together.

(The bible does not say his tail is as large a a cedar tree. It clearly states that the tail is hard like wood. The bible does not say cedar tree. It could have just as easily been talking about a tree branch = tree branch, much, much smaller but still hard.)

23 Behold, he plunders the river, and does not harden; he trusts that he will draw the Jordan into his mouth.

(All this correct translation means is that when he is thrusty enough he will dive into the Jorden River to drink.)

If you actually read and understand enough of the bible you'll understand that the Behemoth, like the Leviathan (sea creature) and the Ziz (a giant bird) were one of a kind large creatures made by God. They did not represent the plural, meaning that there is no mention in the bible of any other such monsters, meaning there were not flocks of giant birds or schools of giant sea monsters or herds or herds of giant behemonts during this time, meaning these monsters are not related to dinosaurs.

93, No. Behemoth, according to Hebrew mythology was a creature that had dominion over all land-based creatures, generally cattle types. It's a mythical animal, that some groups of Jews beleive will be feasted upon after the Messiah comes. The dinosaur thing is new, and in my opinion, neglectful of Hebrew mythology, language, and so forth. Edit- The hippo thing is a half truth- there were many hippo-like elements in the old art, but for the most part it is depicted as a strange cattle monster. Mom- Sometimes. Leviathan, as far as I've seen was originally a fish, then a croc, then a large serpent. The Ziz is obviously a Griffin. 93 93/93

No doubt he was a huge animal, and may possible have been a remnant of the dinos. Even today we occasionally find living creatures that were thought to be extinct and call them "living fossils". Nothing that big could have escaped our attention these days unless it lived way deep in the ocean (like the leviathan, mentioned in the same book) but back then, there were not so many people and they had no organized approach to the study of nature. Job is the oldest book of the Bible and there is no telling what he saw. Behemoth may have been the last of the mammoths for all we know.

So maybe the authors of the Bible found an ancient Apatosaur skeleton and called it a behemoth? That doesn't mean that they actually SAW a dinosaur. Many ancient peoples probably discovered dinosaur skeletons/bones, named them, and attempted to describe how they may have lived, based on the skeletal remains, since they had no idea what they truly were. They weren't incapable of analytical reasoning, just ignorant of the truth. It wouldn't be the first time that an author(s) misrepresented the truth of their "sightings" (intentionally or not). Ever heard of a dragon, a giant, a roc, the Loch Ness Monster, etc? What's your point?

23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

ummm... if you take this literally, which you should since it is "gods word", this doesnt fit the description of Apatosaurus.

no lone animal can drink up an entire river without either.

a) dieing

or

b) suffer complications that result in death.

the beauty about the bible is that is states it is perfect, it states that it is gods word, and metaphors and all that "artistic writing" simply means it is false on those premises.

i still dont know if it mentioned dinosaurs, but couldnt the bible mention DNA?

not mention deoxyribonucleic acid, just the basics of hereditary genes which science had no idea about.

The last dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago. The stories in the bible take place around 3,000 years ago. Sorry, Behemoth was an ox.

Just like it says "eats grass like a ox" It is an ox!

Good points, but the numbers refer to verses, I think. What chapter of the book of Job are they?

Behemoth's tail is moved like a cedar (tree). Elephants and hippos do not possess tails like cedars... more like twigs.

(Oh yes, and neither do oxen have tails like a cedar tree.)

Kudos to Ken Ham!!!! I agree!!!!

The world has fallen prey to secular views. If people would only read their bibles more they might see that it make a lot more sense than they criticize it for!!!

Thanks for bringing up this point.

People will believe anything...as long as it's not written in the BIBLE>