Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Genesis – Myth or Reality?

“Come now, and let us reason together”

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.”

(Prov. 1:7)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” (Prov. 9:10)

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

Genesis – Myth or Reality?

Day 6

“the earth, the sea and all that is in them.”

“the earth, the sea and all that is in them.”

ICR Discovery Center - Dallas

Dinosaur Valley State Park – Glen Rose

Dinosaur Valley State Park – Glen Rose

Dinosaur Valley State Park – Glen Rose

Dinosaur Valley State Park – Glen Rose

Dinosaurs in the Bible?

Dinosaurs existed in the past.

Dinosaurs existed in the recent past!

Triceratops

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Stegosaurus

Velociraptor

Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus

Plesiosaur

Barney (not a real dinosaur)

Dinosaur (1842)

“fearfully great lizard”

“Dragón”

…are not animations like this image.

…were real creatures that lived on the earth.

“the earth, the sea and all that is in them.”

“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you.” (Job 40:15)

“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you.” (Job 40:15)

15 "Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox.

16 See now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles.

17 He moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

18 His bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.

Job 40:15-18

Job 40:15-18

Argentinosaurus

Behemoth?

Behemoth? I don’t think so!

Job 40:15-18

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook?”

livyathan

1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,

Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?

2 Can you put a reed through his nose,

Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:1-2

3 Will he make many supplications to you?

Will he speak softly to you?

4 Will he make a covenant with you?

Will you take him as a servant forever?

5 Will you play with him as with a bird,

Or will you leash him for your maidens?

Job 41:3-5

6 Will your companions make a banquet of him?

Will they apportion him among the merchants?

7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons,

Or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:6-7

8 Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle;

Never do it again!

9 Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false;

Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him?

10 No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.

Job 41:8-10

Who then is able to stand against Me?

11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him?

Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:10-11

Leviathan? – Job 41:1-34

Leviathan? – Job 41:1-34

Leviathan? – Job 41:1-34

Leviathan? – Job 41:1-34

Kronosaurus

Job 40 & 41 – Behemoth, Leviathan

Isaiah 27:1 – Leviathan , serpent, dragon

In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,

Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

Leviathan that twisted serpent;

And He will slay the reptile (dragon) that is in the sea.

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Isaiah 27:1

The burden against the beasts of the South.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,

From which came the lioness and lion,

The viper and fiery flying serpent,

They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,

And their treasures on the humps of camels,

To a people who shall not profit;

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Isaiah 30:6

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’ 4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales.

Ezekiel 29:3-4

Take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monster (dragon) in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, troubling the waters with your feet and fouling their rivers.”

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Ezekiel 32:2

Job 40 & 41 – Behemoth, Leviathan

Isaiah 27:1 – Leviathan , serpent, dragon

Ezekiel 29:3-4 – dragon, monster

Ezekiel 32:2 – dragon, monster

Revelation 12, 13, 16, 20 – great dragon

Isaiah 30:6 – fiery flying serpent

Job 41:19-21

19 Out of his mouth go burning lights;

Sparks of fire shoot out.

20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils,

As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

21 His breath kindles coals,

And a flame goes out of his mouth.

The electric eel

The angler fish

The firefly

The bombardier beetle

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Gen. 18:14)

God can create Leviathan exactly as

God described it in Job 41!

Dracorex Hogwartsia

Pachycephalosaurus

Dracorex Hogwartsia

Dracorex Hogwartsia

Pachycephalosaurus

Dracorex Hogwartsia

Pachycephalosaurus

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“17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

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(Ephesians 4:17-18)

“The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.” (Psalm 119:160)

Genesis – Myth or Reality?

“Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord”