Quote Originally Posted by 99hatch
The Bible does not say that the world is only 6000 years old. There may be some Bible Thumpers that believe that. But there are also some crazy Bible thumpers that believe that abortion clinics should be blown up. You can't trust people because they are ignorant. But myself as a Christian do believe that the world is millions of years old. Not to mention it does talk about Dinosaurs in the Bible. But the word Dinosaur was not invented until the 1800's. But in Job 40 15-17





15 “Look now at the 3behemoth, which I made along with you;
He eats grass like an ox.







16 See now, his strength is in his hips,





And his power is in his stomach muscles.





17 He moves his tail like a cedar;





The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.







Talks about moving his tail like a Ceder. What kind of animal has a Tail that big i ask? We dont have anything like that now.

Some translations list behemoth's "navel" in verse 16, thus precluding the possibility of it being a dinosaur. (Saurians, like avian and reptilian species, are born from eggs and have no navel - those are mammalian)

Verse above also only says the tail "sways like a cedar" - hard to take that as a definition of anything.

In the Hebrew, the word used for "behemoth" only appears once in the Bible and is otherwise untranslatable. It was the translators who looked at the rest of the details and determined that "lilith" must be something big, thus inserting the English word "behemoth" and giving us the idea that it could possibly be something like a dinosaur.

You want an interesting project? Dig up those verses through the end of the description (you know, being in the river, the eyes and nose, etc) in the major translations (NAS, NIV, KJ, Living) and compare them. You can't even get any kind of consensus among major, scholarly translations on what some of those strange allegories in Job mean. Trying to make any sort of claim that they describe a dinosaur is VERY far reaching. Kthnxbye