DINOSAURS AND CHRISTIANITY
Frequently we hear this
question since most people know that traditional Christianity rejects the
theory of evolution. This however is a matter totally independent from
evolutive theories, the same as the existence of all forms of lives that ever
existed on the planet.
WHAT THE BIBLE
SAYS
The Bible does not
talk specifically about dinosaurs, but speaks that God is the creator of all
living things on the planet (Gn 1:24-25; Ps 146:6), which included ‘Hatanninim’
( התנינם ), which comes
from the Hebrew ‘Tannin’ (
תני – Monsters )(Gn 1:21), which applies in Hebrew to all kind of animals who are
fearsome, big and grotesque to any standards, even to primitive people, so much
from land as from water or air.
The Scripture also speaks of Leviathan ( לויתן )(Job 41:1)and Behemot ( בהמות )(Job 40:15), which even though it has been taken by some as being the Crocodile and the Hippopotamus, there is little
probability these two animals existed in the Middle East around the time of
Job, and furthermore, the characteristics given about both of them do not fit
the description of these animals. Most probably they were not exactly
dinosaurs, but certainly impressive beasts from sea and land who lived around
those areas, passed the time of the dinosaurs, and that are extinct today.
CONCLUSION
According to the Bible, dinosaurs could have existed, and
if they did, they were creation of God with a purpose; but they disappeared some
time before or at the Great Flood.
Omar Flores.
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