Christians, a question from an Atheists: what happened to all the dragons?

Knights of the Round Table killed them all off.

Jewish

In Jewish religious texts, the first mention of a dragon-like creature is in the Biblical works of Job (26:13), and Isaiah (27:1) where it is called Nachash Bare'ach, or a "Pole Serpent".[21] This is identified in the Midrash Rabba to Genesis 1:21 as Leviathan from the word Taninim (תנינים) "and God created the great sea-monsters."[22] In modern Hebrew the word Taninim is used for Crocodiles but this is a 20th century usage unconnected with the original Biblical meaning.[citation needed]

In later Biblical texts, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Job, and Psalm 89 refer to a sea-demon called Rahab (not to be confused with Rahab, the woman of Jericho mentioned in the Book of Joshua). Isaiah 51:9 equates this Rahab with a dragon or monster. "Rahab" is the English transliteration of רהב (reb) with the several meanings: pride, a mythical sea-monster, or Egypt (as an emblematic name).[23] In the Douay-Rheims version, translated via Medieval Latin from the Vulgate, the word reb is rendered "the proud one" in Isaiah 51:9 and Job 26:12 and "the power of the sea" in Psalm 88:10 (Psalm 88 is equivalent to Psalm 89 in other versions due to different verse numbering in the Vulgate). The connection between the sea-monster and "Leviathan the serpent" is made in Isaiah 27:1.[24]

In Jewish astronomy this is also identified with the North Pole, the star Thuban which, around 4,500 years ago, was the star in the Draco constellation's "tail".[21] However this can also have been either the celestial pole or the ecliptic pole. The ancient observers noted that Draco was at the top of the celestial pole, giving the appearance that stars were "hanging" from it, and in Hebrew it is referred to as Teli, from talah (תלה) – to hang.[25] Hebrew writers from Arabic-speaking locations identified the Teli as Al Jaz'har, which is a Persian word for a "knot" or a "node" because of the intersection of the inclination of the orbit of a planet from the elliptic that forms two such nodes. In modern astronomy these are called the ascending node and the descending node, but in medieval astronomy they were referred to as "dragon's head" and "dragon's tail".[26]

The Merthyr Synagogue features a dragon on the front gable.[27]

Some versions say jackal & owl. Even the King James version was a translation from the original Greek Hebrew. I believe, like many, that dragon was just another name for the dinosaurs. I have read that most all cultures have stories about dragons and those descriptions (most of them) match for dinosaurs. The Bible talks of the Behemoth and the Leviathan - dinosaurs.

God bless you

Some people believe that dragons and dinosaurs are the same thing. Not just Christians believe this. If you look at historical artifacts of dragons and legend stories, they look and sound more like dinosaurs then what we picture dragons today. What happened to them? They became extinct. How? The same way other animals today become extinct. Yet some people believe that dinosaurs can still be alive today, including evolutionist. Evolutionist say if they found a living dinosaur, it's because they were in an environment that prevented them to evolve or helped them survive.

Therefore I will wail and howl,

I will go stripped and naked;

I will make a wailing like the jackals

KJV

Looked at 8 other versions no mention of a dragon.

Where you getting your info?

Dear mr. Atheist it's no use arguing with these religious morons, because they seem to think they always win in The end

by the way, i'm a Deist i believe in a god, but not following a religion)

Not a theist or an atheist, but a DEIST.!

You might say, (but wasnt god from religion?)

Well not entirely,religion is just a set of codes so people can follow it a certain way, basicaly following a crowd of blind sheep instructed that they will be safe if they so called happen to "read" "prey" e.t.c and dont do bad things like "wetlock" which is ridiculous in my own eyes.

SEE...i can believe in a god, but i can also believe that god could've been an alien being/scientist from a different planet far far away that mix breeded humans with something else...or themselves...e.t.c

so many theories, yet it makes religion look stupid.

THE END.

Yet, then they'res always that religious nut that will say "DEQUAN is a little crazy" when in reality they tend not to look in the mirror to check themselves.

Hi,jadedangel,

Atheism, the act of turning your back on your Creator, is a tough decision. It carries a lot of emotional baggage and even more uncertainty. This is generally relieved, although for only short periods of time, by lashing out at those who still have faith. You can think of it as their way of reassuring themselves that they made the correct decision - while deep inside they know that they haven't.

~ James E. Ellette

Daniel killed one

Bel and the Dragon 1:28 KJV

When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the dragon, and put the priests to death.

Komodo Dragons peacefully Live in the Indonesian Islands.

They were called dragons in those days. Today they are referred too as dinosaurs. The term dinosaur was first introduced in the 1800's.

Of course dragons existed. Look at our Welsh and Chinese history, which is rife with dragons, and the Welsh flag which features a dragon.