Bible Question Answered - What Does The Bible Say About Dinosaurs?

What Does The Bible Say About Dinosaurs?

This is not a "deep" subject of Bible truths however, it does come up from time-to-time, especially if you have children or if you're fascinated by these HUGE reptiles.

Answer:  The Bible does not specifically provide an answer to this question.  So we have to use our power of reasoning.  Before 1824, dinosaurs were unknown to humans.  It was in that year that bones of several kinds of fossilized reptiles were unearthed in England.  Since then dinosaur fossils have been discovered on every continent!

So when did they live?  The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above the layers where dinosaur fossils have been found, from this scientists generally conclude that humans came later, after the dinosaurs were gone.  According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative days.  Genesis 1:21 says "And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind.  And God got to see that [it was] good."  If the Hebrew expression translated "great sea monsters" included dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy or watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth day.

It is after the sixth day that the Bible talks about God creating man.  This would be consistent with scientific findings.  Hence it is reasonable to conclude that dinosaurs had a purpose that they fulfilled.  We can only speculate that purpose to have been some kind of preparation of the earth for human habitation, 

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