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Originally Posted by DizzyDee  There is a reference to dragons in the bible and a lot of christians believe that dragons is a reference to dinosaurs. I've talked to some christians who believe that humans and dinosaurs lived together and that carbon dating is so off that the world is only about 6000 - 8000 years old. I just shake my head at that one. |
You mean this passage:
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“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
“Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
“His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.”
“His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.”
“Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.”
“On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
Leviathan is a “reptile* that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
*Note: The word translated “reptile” here is the Hebrew word tanniyn. This shows that “Leviathan” was also a “tanniyn” (dragon)."
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You see they aren't describing dinosaurs. The word Tanninyn translates into dragon, because that's what they are describing. A fire breathing dragon...
Now don't get me wrong, you place that in the context of a book about mythical beings, heaven and hell, demons, "miracles", parting a sea so people can walk through it, men walking on water, and an endless burning bush and mythical fire breathing dragons kinda fit. I mean heck early historic man blamed a great many things and told a great many stories on God and his awesome power. Why not throw in a fire breathing dragon or 2?