Behold now behemoth!

Below is a short essay on the topic of dinosaurs in the bible that I wrote as part of an email sent out earlier this year. It begins with a summary of varying church positions today. If you have any questions concerning this topic please send me an email. Blessings.

 

Jonn.

 

Some of the more liberal churches today, including the Catholic church, outright teach evolutionary thought as true. However, while most Protestant churches do not outright teach it, they would claim that they do not have a problem with it because they tell us God decided to use long periods of time to perform his work, this is known as the "Gap theory" or the "Day age theory", both assume large periods of time inserted in Genesis to account for the billions of years.

 

Then there are those churches who say they do not believe in evolution at all and they teach the biblical story of creation but they don't make much of a fuss over their children being taught evolution in every school in the nation. The salt has lost its savor I suppose.

 

Lastly, there are those who do not feel it is important enough to worry about and that it is an impossible subject to understand and therefore they know nothing about it and don't want to know anything about it.

 

Having summarized the current church's teaching of the subject, I will point out that in every case our schools are teaching evolution in some form or another to our unsuspecting students. For instance, they tell them that no person has ever seen a living dinosaur. They tell the kids that not until the 1800's did anyone even suspect that dinosaurs had ever walked the earth. This of course was when the first "fossil" was uncovered and the term "dinosaur" was created.

 

It should have been the churches from the very beginning to put a stop to this lie because within the very pages of our Bibles is a description of a dinosaur. In the book of Job, chapter 40 it states.

 

"Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is 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 wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares."

 

Notice the part that says "he eateth grass as an ox" and "he moveth his tail like a cedar" The creature he is describing is not the elephant or hippopotamus because their tiny tails do not "move like a cedar". It also couldn't be a crocodile or alligator, since they don't eat grass. The only creature that moved his tail like a cedar tree and ate grass as an ox would be the brachiosaurus, apatasaurus or diplodicus.

 

The long necked, long tailed dinosaur clearly walked the earth with Job as he is told in the Bible to " Behold now behemoth" how can you behold something without being able to see it for yourself? Yet today we are told that no person ever saw a living dinosaur but, according to the Bible, Job saw them.

 

This one fact pulls the rug out from under evolutionary thinking. If the dinosaurs didn't live millions of years ago then the "fossil record" is false. If the fossil record is false then the "geologic column" is false. If the geologic column is false then the "geologic time scale" is false and the whole of evolutionary theory breaks down.

 

How could there be a description of a dinosaur when no one was supposed to have known about them at all, much less write down such an accurate description of a living dinosaur?

 

I hope this will generate some discussion, perhaps it is a hard truth to realize but it is the truth. Man lived with dinosaurs for many years before they died out. If this fact is true then we can only stare in awe at the machine we call secular society and their massive push to teach lies to each and everyone of us and to what end?

 

So, it is good to know that we believe the Bible, not because we are outdated do-gooders who want to keep people from having fun but rather we believe the Bible because it is true, it is scientific and it is the Word of God.