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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
DINOSAURS IN THE BIBLE
Dinosaur-like creatures are mentioned in the Bible. The Bible uses ancient names like "behemoth" (beh-HEE-moth) and "tannin." Behemoth means kingly, gigantic beasts. Tannin is a term which includes dragon-like animals and the great sea creatures such as whales, giant squids, and marine reptiles like the plesiosaurs (PLEE-see-oh-sors) that may have become extinct (died out).
The Bible's best description of a dinosaur-like animal is in Job chapter 40...
Job 40:15-19(NIV) -"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feed on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron. He ranks first among the works of God..."
The book of Job is very old, written after the worldwide flood of Noah's time and probably about 2,000 years before Jesus was born. Here God describes a great king of the land animals like some of the biggest dinosaurs, the Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. It was a gigantic plant-eater with great muscles and very strong bones. The long Diplodocus had leg bones so strong that he could have held three others on his back.
The behemoth were not afraid. They did not need to be; they were huge. Behemoth tails were so long and strong that God compared them to cedars--one of the largest and most spectacular trees of the ancient world.
After all the behemoth had died out, many people forgot about them. Dinosaurs were extinct and the fossil skeletons that are in museums today did not begin to be put together until about 150 years ago. Today, some people have mistakenly guessed that the behemoth mentioned in the Bible might be an elephant or a hippopotamus. But those animals do not have tails like the thick, tall trunks of cedar trees!
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But in that excerpt you quoted Cerek it does not mention the TRUNK of a cedar. It just says sways like a cedar. First of all were their cedars in that part of the world at that time? I don't know? Is that how it has been translated?
Secondly do the trunks of any
tree sway? It was you that compared tails to tree trunks, not Job. I've never seen a tree trunk sway unless they are extremely young and small. Perhaps the tips of the trees sway yes.. but that is not very trunk like.. Elephants tails sway back and forth. Sorry but when i read that passage you quoted it screams Elephant to me.
Regardless both of our arguments on this are totally unfounded and we are both seeing what we want to see in that passage.
[ 12-04-2002, 01:19 PM: Message edited by: Djinn Raffo ]