Does the Bible Really Talk About Dinosaurs?

[devendrasingh123]

Hey brothers and sisters,

I’ve been reading and studying Genesis and Job lately, and I came across something interesting some scholars believe the “behemoth” and “leviathan” mentioned in the Bible could be descriptions of dinosaurs. Others say they’re symbolic or refer to known animals like hippos or crocodiles.

Personally, I find it fascinating how God’s creation is so vast and mysterious that we might still be discovering how it all fits with Scripture. The Bible might not use the word “dinosaur,” but could it still describe creatures that lived in ancient times?

I found this article that dives deeper into the topic and gives different perspectives — it’s worth a read if you’re curious: Dinosaurs in the Bible? What Scripture Really Says About Ancient Giants

What do you think? Could dinosaurs have been part of God’s creation in the same timeline as humans, or were they long gone before Adam and Eve? I’d love to hear your thoughts and Bible references.

Blessings,
Rajput Kuldevi

 

[Dino246]

Hello and welcome to CC!

There is a wealth of evidence supporting the historical existence of dinosaurs. The huge creatures described in the Bible don’t match any animals known today but do correspond with known dinosaurs. As for concurrent existence with humans, dinosaurs were either created along with other animals, or the Bible is not a n adequate record of history.

I would encourage you to check out the website for the ministry “Answers in Genesis” for a more comprehensive explanation.

 

[2ndTimeIsTheCharm]

Hey brothers and sisters,

I’ve been reading and studying Genesis and Job lately, and I came across something interesting some scholars believe the “behemoth” and “leviathan” mentioned in the Bible could be descriptions of dinosaurs. Others say they’re symbolic or refer to known animals like hippos or crocodiles.

Personally, I find it fascinating how God’s creation is so vast and mysterious that we might still be discovering how it all fits with Scripture. The Bible might not use the word “dinosaur,” but could it still describe creatures that lived in ancient times?

I found this article that dives deeper into the topic and gives different perspectives — it’s worth a read if you’re curious: Dinosaurs in the Bible? What Scripture Really Says About Ancient Giants

What do you think? Could dinosaurs have been part of God’s creation in the same timeline as humans, or were they long gone before Adam and Eve? I’d love to hear your thoughts and Bible references.

Blessings,
Rajput Kuldevi

Hi there!

Thanks for the article! I'm currently reading it and it brought to mind the movie:

The Ark and the Darkness​

It believes in the Earth being actually young such that the dinosaurs did live at the same times as when humans did right up to when Noah got into the ark. The Flood wiped out all or most of the dinosaurs. It really is a good video the way it is all presented. Not boring the way some science videos are done.

The scientific community does not believe in God and are trying to suppress any evidence of His existence as the movie will explain and I believe that. When I was a kid, I loved reading about science but came across this very curious article that showed a picture of a sandal and dinosaur footprint right next to each other. I didn't know what to think but I never forgot it.

So the mention of the behemoth and the leviathan in the Bible are quite possibly actually dinosaurs! It's one of the things I definitely want to ask God about. I suppose that God got rid of them in the Flood because humans were going to multiply and He didn't want the carnivorous ones to eat them up (lol). And the dinosaurs being carbon-based turned them into petroleum that we're using for our cars today. But yeah, definitely will ask God about them!

 

[Hakawaka]

Hey brothers and sisters,

I’ve been reading and studying Genesis and Job lately, and I came across something interesting some scholars believe the “behemoth” and “leviathan” mentioned in the Bible could be descriptions of dinosaurs. Others say they’re symbolic or refer to known animals like hippos or crocodiles.

Personally, I find it fascinating how God’s creation is so vast and mysterious that we might still be discovering how it all fits with Scripture. The Bible might not use the word “dinosaur,” but could it still describe creatures that lived in ancient times?

I found this article that dives deeper into the topic and gives different perspectives — it’s worth a read if you’re curious: Dinosaurs in the Bible? What Scripture Really Says About Ancient Giants

What do you think? Could dinosaurs have been part of God’s creation in the same timeline as humans, or were they long gone before Adam and Eve? I’d love to hear your thoughts and Bible references.

Blessings,
Rajput Kuldevi

Look up Dr Dino Kent Hovind. Welcome to the forum brother we're glad to have you. Its an interesting topic I believe man did live at the same time as dinosaurs during pre-flood era

 

[Webers.Home]

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● Gen 1:5b . . And there was evening and there was morning, a first Day.

There are two kinds of Days in the first chapter of Genesis. One is a creation day
and the other is a natural day. It's very important to keep those two kinds of days
distinctly separate in our thinking because they are as unalike as sand and gravel.

Natural days are regulated by sunrise and sunset whereas creation days are a bit
problematic because there were no sunrises or sunsets to be seen on Earth till the
fourth day. And-- when you think about it --a strict chronology of evening and
morning defines overnight; viz: darkness (Lev 24:2-4). In order to obtain a full 24
hour day, we'd have to define creation's Days as a day and a night rather than an
evening and a morning.

In other words: the evenings and mornings relative to creation days aren't solar
events: of that we can be sure of. So it's possible that the terms are merely index
flags indicating the beginnings and endings of unspecified eras.

Now, according to Gen 1:24-31, God created humans and all terra critters on the
sixth day; which has to include prehistoric creatures because on no other day did
God create beasts on land but the sixth.

However; the sciences of geology and paleontology, in combination with
radiometric dating, strongly suggest that prehistoric creatures preceded humans by
several million years. So then, in my estimation, the days of creation should be
taken to represent eras rather than 24-hour events. That's not an unreasonable
posit; for example:

"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven." (Gen 2:4)

The Hebrew word for "day" in that verse is the very same word for each of the six
days of God's creation labors. Since day in Gen 2:4 refers to a period of time
obviously much longer than a 24-hour event; it defends the suggestion that
each of the six Days of creation were longer than 24 hours apiece too. In other
words: Bible days are ambiguous and not all that easy to interpret sometimes.

Anyway; this "day" thing has been a stone in the shoe for just about everybody
who takes Genesis seriously. It's typically assumed that the days of creation
consisted of twenty-four hours apiece; so Bible readers end up stumped when
trying to figure out how to cope with the 4.5 billion-year age of the earth, and
factor in the various eras, e.g. Triassic, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Cretaceous,
etc, plus the ice ages and the mass extinction events.

NOTE: Galileo believed that science and religion are allies rather than enemies--
two different languages telling the same story. He believed that science and religion
complement each other: science answers questions that religion doesn't bother to
answer, and religion answers questions that science cannot answer.

For example: theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking understood pretty well how the
cosmos works; but could never scientifically explain why it should exist at all. Well;
in my estimation, the only possible answer to the "why" is found in intelligent
design; which is a religious explanation rather than scientific. Religion's why is
satisfactory for people of faith. No doubt deep thinkers like Michio Kaku, Neil
deGrasse Tyson, Michelle Thaller, and the late Carl Sagan would prefer something a
bit more empirical.

NOTE: the Volume 248, August 2025, No.2 issue of National Geographic magazine
tells of a time in the Earth's history when the Sahara Desert was pluvial, and
explorers of late have unearthing literally tons of fossilized remains of the creatures
who once lived there many years ago when that region was quite a bit more
hospitable than it is now.
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[Dino246]

Really? Eric Dubay? The flat-Earth promoter? Get some better sources!

 

[wattie]

Hey brothers and sisters,

I’ve been reading and studying Genesis and Job lately, and I came across something interesting some scholars believe the “behemoth” and “leviathan” mentioned in the Bible could be descriptions of dinosaurs. Others say they’re symbolic or refer to known animals like hippos or crocodiles.

Personally, I find it fascinating how God’s creation is so vast and mysterious that we might still be discovering how it all fits with Scripture. The Bible might not use the word “dinosaur,” but could it still describe creatures that lived in ancient times?

I found this article that dives deeper into the topic and gives different perspectives — it’s worth a read if you’re curious: Dinosaurs in the Bible? What Scripture Really Says About Ancient Giants

What do you think? Could dinosaurs have been part of God’s creation in the same timeline as humans, or were they long gone before Adam and Eve? I’d love to hear your thoughts and Bible references.

Blessings,
Rajput Kuldevi

It comes down to the definition of dinosaur.

Creatures like dinosaurs are still around. For example the crocodile, alligator, the elephant, the whale (although I am not saying whales evolved into land dwelling animals), the komodo dragon, the anaconda, the tuatara in New Zealand.

But if you are going to argue that the behemoth and leviathan are symbolic.. then you gotta look at the surrounding chapters to see if the writing is symbolic. This is where you see Geneisis NOT being written as symbolic writing with the geneologies, descriptions of key figures, description of farming and agriculture etc..

So if we said the leviathan and behemoth were figurative.. we would be taking scissors to scripture and self-selecting that which we believe to be symbols and that which we believe to be actual fact. Then .. it is not God's Word. It would not be perfect. It would not be God-breathed.

So, I believe the behemoth and leviathan were real creatures, that matched the definition of a dinosaur.

If you have a problem with men being around at the same time as dinosaurs, take the lenses of macro evolution off.. and just look at the facts of history. We can be around whales, elephants and komodo dragons and tuataras and anacondas.. but it can't be that we were around even larger creatures that closely resembled them?

 

[Meatbag]

They're real creatures, the behemoth & leviathan respectively
The section in job tells the reader
He is among the firstworks of God
Like the first things created in Genesis
Kjv: "sea monsters" (great whales)

More importantly, they're like archetypes
Look at the entire section in job (chapters 39 to 41)
It's a progression
We start with basic types in chapter 39
It goes from there..

Ch.41 (the leviathan)
You can watch footage today of deep sea creatures spew out bioluminescent material if you require a literal interpretation of this section, but it's talking about the inner nature we potentially engage and struggle with..

There's always reasons why Scripture spends time with this heavy illustrative symbolic stuff.. it is trying to get something incredibly deep across to the reader

God bless you