There is a debate in the Christian world that centers around the age of the Earth. Called Young Earth or Old Earth. If you know me, you know that I believe in a young earth, just as the Bible lays it out.
This question is not about the age of the Earth, but it is about dinosaurs. If you just for a minute, assume that the age of the Earth is Young, about 6000 years, then we would have to have dinosaurs in the Bible, correct?
Richard Owen coined the word Dinosaur (originally Dinosauria) in 1841 and it originates from two greek words deinos – terrible, powerful, wondrous and sauros – lizard. Before 1841 we think people just called them dragons!
Those who believe in a younger age for the earth tend to agree that the Bible does mention dinosaurs, though it never actually uses the word dinosaur. Instead, it uses the Hebrew word tanniyn, which is translated a few different ways in our English Bibles. Sometimes it’s “sea monster,” and sometimes it’s “serpent.” It is most commonly translated “dragon” in the KJV. The tanniyn appears to have been some sort of giant reptile. These creatures are mentioned nearly thirty times in the Old Testament
Psalm 74:13-14
- It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.
- It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
Isaiah 27:1
- In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.
Job 41:1
(God taunting Job)
- “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
- Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Job 40:15-18
- “Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
- What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
- Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
- Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
Skeptics call the “behemoth” an elephant or rhino, but that makes no sense. They both have very thin tails, nothing like a cedar tree. But a dinosaur like a brachiosaurus, apatosaurus, saltasaurus fit this description perfectly.
Nearly every ancient civilization has left some sort of art depicting giant reptilian creatures.
-Petroglyphs and clay figurines found in North America resemble modern depictions of dinosaurs.
-Rock carvings in South America depict images of creatures resembling Triceratops, Diplodocus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex.
-Roman mosaics
-Mayan pottery
-Babylonian city walls all testify to man’s trans-cultural, geographically unbounded memories of these creatures.
-Thirteenth-century explorer Marco Polo wrote of seeing “huge serpents” in China, which he described: “At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, each with three claws, as well as eyes larger than a loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal can approach them without terror”
Many of these ancient, carvings, show man, riding what appears to be dinosaurs, living with them, and hunting them.
In addition to these, there are several fossils that have dinosaur foot prints and man foot prints together.
If dinosaurs and human beings coexisted, what happened to the dinosaurs? The Bible does not discuss the issue, but dinosaurs likely died out sometime after the flood due to a combination of dramatic environmental shifts and being relentlessly hunted to extinction.
Tease…the flood changed everything on the Earth…
https://www.gotquestions.org/dinosaurs-Bible.html