Are Dinosaurs in the Bible?

God created us in the beginning. In fact, Jesus created all creatures, including the dinosaurs. The Bible speaks of God creating gigantic beasts and huge sea creatures in one of its oldest books, the Book of Job. We know these creatures really lived at one time because we found their fossils. The dinosaurs were taken on Noah's ark, but they could not adapt to the new world after the flood. After many years (perhaps a thousand), they all died off. In the last 350 years, almost 400 species of creatures have disappeared. We also know that dinosaurs lived after the flood, because the Book of Job was written after the flood and it describes two creatures in particular.

The Bible speaks of behemoth and leviathan. The behemoth is most likely the dinosaur scientists refer to as Apatasaurus. Listen to what the Bible says in describing behemoth. [Job 40: 15 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox. 16His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach. 17His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together. 18His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron. 19He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.] Some people have mistaken this description as belonging to an elephant or hippopotamus. Now I ask you, does an elephant's or hippopotamus tail look like a cedar tree?
No, of course not. But look at this Apatasaurus picture;
his tail is as big as a cedar tree!
The Bible says God made the dinosaurs with man. They both lived peaceably, side-by-side, and were vegetarians. Neither man nor the animals were meat-eaters until after the flood. The terrible T-Rex may have become a meat-eater after the flood (and God's curse on the ground). The dinosaurs didn't live for millions of years before man as evolution says. Dinosaurs have never ruled the earth; mankind was given that task by God. The leviathan was a sea creature most closely resembling a Kronosaurus. It seems this creature was still alive when King David wrote in [Psa 104 26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.] These creatures were all part of God's marvelous creation. We can praise our mighty God who makes all things well.

©1998 by Jim Kerlin.