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alphablu82
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Message 114 of 128 (278102)
01-11-2006 11:13 AM


Biblical Archaeology

Please try to stay on topic. This thread is about Biblical Archaeology. Nothing in your post seems connevted to that at all.

Fossils that have been found have been discovered in a heap on the ground. They are scarred and chipped. This suggests that they were a result of rapidly moving water dumping them. Also many fossils have not been found intact unless they are in the bottom of water or mud.
For you interested in the Biblical answers there are accounts of the dinosaur in there. Job 40:15-19 talks of a huge beast. "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee, he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrappedd together. His bones are like strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is te chief of the ways of God; he that made him make his sword approach to him." God is talking to Job telling him that he made behemeth the dinosaur at the same time as he made Job. Humans.
There are also many other accounts of dinosaurs in the Bible. It lists the tanniyn or dragon, and leviathan. In Isaiah 27 it talks of the leviathan. 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 [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1) Tanniyn is translated to dragon or sea monster from the original Hebrew. Isa 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. La 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. Sea monsters are the dinosaurs of the waters.
There are references to dinosaurs in the Bible. Just not with the same words in English.
This message has been edited by AdminJar, 01-11-2006 04:24 PM

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