What about "Behemoth"?
While debating, you cannot answer a question with a question...
What about it?
Sorry but it didn't seem relevant to the topic? I haven't got any of their CD's - have you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behemoth_(band)
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What dinosaur do you think"Behemoth" is?
You haven't dragged in the Kraken to the discussion yet?
Wrong answer. Obviously Job described as dinosaur. You know, the kind that lived millions of years before mankind ever existed.
You haven't dragged in the Kraken to the discussion yet?
Wrong answer. Obviously Job described as dinosaur. You know, the kind that lived millions of years before mankind ever existed.
I'm really struggling to take such an absurd suggestion seriously, that's all. But if you can show strong evidence for why we should think any kind of dinosaur is being described in scripture, please present it.
It needs to be strong because the scientific evidence that no dinosaurs survived beyond 60(+) million years ago is very strong!
Another important point - people have been digging in the earth for thousands of years & from time to time they came across the bones of long extinct creatures. In trying to explain what those bones belonged to & how they came to be in the earth in the first place, they came up with some very fanciful stories.
For example, it's believed that the dragons of mythology owe their invention to such discoveries. Did you know that the story of the Cyclops owes it's origin to the skulls of pygmy elephants found in caves on certain Mediterranean islands? Elephant skulls have a depression where the trunk is located & it strongly resembles an eye socket in the middle of the skull.
So God was telling Job that behemoth ate grass because ancient people dug up bones?
I'll show you where it describes a dinosaur tomorrow. If you want, read Job chapter 40 that I posted.
Another important point - people have been digging in the earth for thousands of years & from time to time they came across the bones of long extinct creatures. In trying to explain what those bones belonged to & how they came to be in the earth in the first place, they came up with some very fanciful stories.
For example, it's believed that the dragons of mythology owe their invention to such discoveries. Did you know that the story of the Cyclops owes it's origin to the skulls of pygmy elephants found in caves on certain Mediterranean islands? Elephant skulls have a depression where the trunk is located & it strongly resembles an eye socket in the middle of the skull.
Ok, but you can't look at the Bible as a book of myths though.
So God was telling Job that behemoth ate grass because ancient people dug up bones?
I don't believe any such thing because as you should understand by now, I have zero belief in any 'God'!
Ok, but you can't look at the Bible as a book of myths though.
Equally, you shouldn't claim that every word is literal truth! Some is verifiable fact, other parts allegory & mythology.
Isn't the OT exactly what we should expect of a people who'd been collecting and to some extent inventing/embellishing stories through a long oral tradition & who finally came to write those down?
So God was telling Job that behemoth ate grass because ancient people dug up bones?
I don't believe any such thing because as you should understand by now, I have zero belief in any 'God'!
Whether you believe in God or not I think we can agree that the Bible was written less than 60 million years ago. And the Bible describes dinosaurs, not looking good for the ancient dinosaur theory
..the Bible describes dinosaurs, not looking good for the ancient dinosaur theory
The Bible no more describes dinosaurs than it describes astronauts!
Read Job 40:15-24 please.
I have & I'm utterly unimpressed. Why should we think that a literal creature is being described in the first place & if we accept that, why not something like a Nile Crocodile?
What about "Behemoth"?
While debating, you cannot answer a question with a question...
What about it?