Reptile Terrae: Dinosaur Earth in the Bible

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Dinosaurs Mention in Genesis 1:24-26 - English, Hebrew & Latin.

This is such a solve mystery in Genesis chapter 1 that I see no need to use Job references in this post. But I'm sure many atheists would snarl or laugh at any such statement that dinosaurs are mentioned anywhere in the Bible. But here we will put the skepticism to rest.

For starters, the word "dinosaur" wasn't even coined until 1841 by Sir Richard Owen. Before that they were called things like "dragons" which referred to reptilian beasts. The word "dinosaur" is not an ancient word so why in all fairness would anyone search the Bible for the word "dinosaur"? I'm sure dinosaurs were called by many names in different ancient cultures. So here we will examine what Genesis says about dinosaurs.
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Genesis 1:24-26 King James Version (KJV)

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

The phrase "creeping thing" is not a bad English rendering. God made the beasts of the earth which included dinosaurs in the category of "creeping things."

Still not convinced? I didn't think so. While the rendering isn't bad at all it doesn't place much emphasis on what these creeping things are. We know they are included with the beasts of the earth.
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Hebrew Lexicon for H7431 רֶמֶשׂ remes

✅The New Strong's Exhaustive Expanded Concordance of the Bible,

H7431 רֶמֶשׂ remes, "רֶמֶשׂ remes, reh'-mes; from H7430; a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal:—that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing."

So here we can safely establish that remes is generally used to describe reptiles but can be used to describe any creature that creepeth, including animals.

Dinosaurs are reptiles and we do see a Hebrew definition which says God created reptiles along with the beast of the earth. But can we take this one step further to conclude that these reptiles were plentiful and numerous as to mention them along with animals but separate in their own category? The next section will answer it just fine!
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† St.Jerome's Latin Vulgate:

The Latin Vulgate is a 4th century work by St.Jerome which contains a passage that shouldn't exist if evolution were to be true.

Genesis 1:24,

"dixit quoque Deus producat terra animam viventem in genere suo iumenta et reptilia et bestias terrae secundum species suas factumque "

Already we see "reptilia" defined. But the next verse spells it out better.

Genesis 1:25,

"et fecit Deus bestias terrae iuxta species suas et iumenta et omne reptile terrae in genere suo et vidit Deus quod esset bonum"

The phrase "reptile terrae" means "reptile earth" in English! Sounds like a documentary or movie about dinosaurs to me! So what do atheists consider Biblical evidence that the Bible included dinosaurs during creation? I'm sure the atheist will reply, "It still doesn't say dinosaur." Then you can remind the atheist that "dinosaur" is a modern word. The atheist will reply, "It still doesn't say dinosaur." And that is the type of reasoning atheists use on the Bible as they simply don't want to know.

Genesis 1:26,

"et ait faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram et praesit piscibus maris et volatilibus caeli et bestiis universaeque terrae omnique reptili quod movetur in terra"

Dinosaurs are reptiles and the creation of numerous kinds of reptiles is mentioned in Genesis.

Genesis 1:25 calls it "reptile earth" ("reptile terrae") --- and that's how it translates, too!

The Latin word "terra" is generally use for "earth" but also is used to describe land or even the entire planet!

Latin Definition and applications for terra
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/t...10CUXGk94ABihjxM-oxcrubf4VmTrWgTzGjcGcnPRVlVY


How to say creeping in Latin
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/latin-word-for-5302cc9050f5be6c5437291498b412b0d288a0ba.html


So the word can be applied to mean the globe or planet. Therefore we could technically say that "reptile terrae" means "dinosaur planet" in modern English as the passage is referring to dinosaurs no matter how much atheists claim it doesn't. We know dinosaurs lived among humans which I'll prove in the comment section below. In Hebrew they were categorized as remes; in Latin they are called reptiles, and in English they are categorically classified as dinosaurs.

I think the Latin Vulgate spells it out very well!

Dinosaurs are reptiles and their creation is mentioned in Genesis. Any fair-minded person can see that.
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This cave drawing of a Sauropod was discovered on a rock ledge at the edge of the Amazon rain forest basin in northern Peru. It shows 9 warriors hunting this giant Sauropod.
The dinosaurs that did manage to survived the Flood either died to environmental changes or were hunted into complete extinction like many other mammals and birds have been. So this cave drawing shows what could be the last Sauropod on earth being killed by man LOL! Well, what are humans best at if not hunting creatures down to extinction, right? Look up Haast eagle which was once a well known eagle which was hunted into extinction. There are many creatures now gone from the earth that most people never heard of before which have only been extinct for 200 to 300 years. Go back further in time and see how dinosaurs were also hunted into extinction.
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Stegosaurus engraving discovered on Buddhist temple in Cambodia.
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Large dinosaurs did not creep. On day 5 it says God crested what the KJV mistranslated ‘great whales’— the Hebrew word is Taniyn, which means reptile, especially dangerous or frightening ones. It includes snakes as well as creatures with legs. So dinosaurs were created on day 5, which fits the fossil record with the day-age interpretation.
 
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Large dinosaurs did not creep. On day 5 it says God crested what the KJV mistranslated ‘great whales’— the Hebrew word is Taniyn, which means reptile, especially dangerous or frightening ones. It includes snakes as well as creatures with legs. So dinosaurs were created on day 5, which fits the fossil record with the day-age interpretation.
Maybe, perhaps water dinos. But the Vulgate antedates modern theories by over a 1000 years and its not going to get this wrong. That's the whole reason why I like the Vulgate so much. It deflates modern theories long long before the age of Paleontology. Verse 25 is very clear that God created "reptile terrae" which in English says "reptile earth." Dinosaurs are reptiles. God probably created the water dinos on Day 5. But for whatever its worth to the reader, dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible and so there should be no fuss about what day or days they were created on.
 
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Dinosaurs Mention in Genesis 1:24-26 - English, Hebrew & Latin.

This is such a solve mystery in Genesis chapter 1 that I see no need to use Job references in this post. But I'm sure many atheists would snarl or laugh at any such statement that dinosaurs are mentioned anywhere in the Bible. But here we will put the skepticism to rest.

For starters, the word "dinosaur" wasn't even coined until 1841 by Sir Richard Owen. Before that they were called things like "dragons" which referred to reptilian beasts. The word "dinosaur" is not an ancient word so why in all fairness would anyone search the Bible for the word "dinosaur"? I'm sure dinosaurs were called by many names in different ancient cultures. So here we will examine what Genesis says about dinosaurs.
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English

Genesis 1:24-26 King James Version (KJV)

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

The phrase "creeping thing" is not a bad English rendering. God made the beasts of the earth which included dinosaurs in the category of "creeping things."

Still not convinced? I didn't think so. While the rendering isn't bad at all it doesn't place much emphasis on what these creeping things are. We know they are included with the beasts of the earth.
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Hebrew Lexicon for H7431 רֶמֶשׂ remes

✅The New Strong's Exhaustive Expanded Concordance of the Bible,

H7431 רֶמֶשׂ remes, "רֶמֶשׂ remes, reh'-mes; from H7430; a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal:—that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing."

So here we can safely establish that remes is generally used to describe reptiles but can be used to describe any creature that creepeth, including animals.

Dinosaurs are reptiles and we do see a Hebrew definition which says God created reptiles along with the beast of the earth. But can we take this one step further to conclude that these reptiles were plentiful and numerous as to mention them along with animals but separate in their own category? The next section will answer it just fine!
_______________________________________________________________________
† St.Jerome's Latin Vulgate:

The Latin Vulgate is a 4th century work by St.Jerome which contains a passage that shouldn't exist if evolution were to be true.

Genesis 1:24,

"dixit quoque Deus producat terra animam viventem in genere suo iumenta et reptilia et bestias terrae secundum species suas factumque "

Already we see "reptilia" defined. But the next verse spells it out better.

Genesis 1:25,

"et fecit Deus bestias terrae iuxta species suas et iumenta et omne reptile terrae in genere suo et vidit Deus quod esset bonum"

The phrase "reptile terrae" means "reptile earth" in English! Sounds like a documentary or movie about dinosaurs to me! So what do atheists consider Biblical evidence that the Bible included dinosaurs during creation? I'm sure the atheist will reply, "It still doesn't say dinosaur." Then you can remind the atheist that "dinosaur" is a modern word. The atheist will reply, "It still doesn't say dinosaur." And that is the type of reasoning atheists use on the Bible as they simply don't want to know.

Genesis 1:26,

"et ait faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram et praesit piscibus maris et volatilibus caeli et bestiis universaeque terrae omnique reptili quod movetur in terra"

Dinosaurs are reptiles and the creation of numerous kinds of reptiles is mentioned in Genesis.

Genesis 1:25 calls it "reptile earth" ("reptile terrae") --- and that's how it translates, too!

The Latin word "terra" is generally use for "earth" but also is used to describe land or even the entire planet!

Latin Definition and applications for terra
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/t...10CUXGk94ABihjxM-oxcrubf4VmTrWgTzGjcGcnPRVlVY


How to say creeping in Latin
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/latin-word-for-5302cc9050f5be6c5437291498b412b0d288a0ba.html


So the word can be applied to mean the globe or planet. Therefore we could technically say that "reptile terrae" means "dinosaur planet" in modern English as the passage is referring to dinosaurs no matter how much atheists claim it doesn't. We know dinosaurs lived among humans which I'll prove in the comment section below. In Hebrew they were categorized as remes; in Latin they are called reptiles, and in English they are categorically classified as dinosaurs.

I think the Latin Vulgate spells it out very well!

Dinosaurs are reptiles and their creation is mentioned in Genesis. Any fair-minded person can see that.
_____________________________________________________________________
This cave drawing of a Sauropod was discovered on a rock ledge at the edge of the Amazon rain forest basin in northern Peru. It shows 9 warriors hunting this giant Sauropod.
The dinosaurs that did manage to survived the Flood either died to environmental changes or were hunted into complete extinction like many other mammals and birds have been. So this cave drawing shows what could be the last Sauropod on earth being killed by man LOL! Well, what are humans best at if not hunting creatures down to extinction, right? Look up Haast eagle which was once a well known eagle which was hunted into extinction. There are many creatures now gone from the earth that most people never heard of before which have only been extinct for 200 to 300 years. Go back further in time and see how dinosaurs were also hunted into extinction.
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Stegosaurus engraving discovered on Buddhist temple in Cambodia.
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There are no dinosaurs in the bible. There are unicorns in the bible, but no dinosaurs.
 
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Maybe, perhaps water dinos. But the Vulgate antedates modern theories by over a 1000 years and its not going to get this wrong. That's the whole reason why I like the Vulgate so much. It deflates modern theories long long before the age of Paleontology. Verse 25 is very clear that God created "reptile terrae" which in English says "reptile earth." Dinosaurs are reptiles. God probably created the water dinos on Day 5. But for whatever its worth to the reader, dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible and so there should be no fuss about what day or days they were created on.
I suppose reptile terrae means reptiles of the earth— you have to pay attention to case endings. But people knew about lizards and snakes in ancient times, and the Hebrew word remesh could include insects and rodents too, it doesn’t mean dinosaurs.
 
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I suppose reptile terrae means reptiles of the earth— you have to pay attention to case endings. But people knew about lizards and snakes in ancient times, and the Hebrew word remesh could include insects and rodents too, it doesn’t mean dinosaurs.
If you look at the Hebrew lexicon it is used mainly for reptiles. Dinosaurs are reptiles.
 
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There are no dinosaurs in the bible. There are unicorns in the bible, but no dinosaurs.
Unicorn in the Bible did not carry the same meaning back in old English as it does today. Back when old English Bibles were translated the word dinosaur did not exist in the English vocabulary.
 
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The translators of the KJV used the Septuagint's "monoceros" in their translation. It literally means "unicorn". Something with one horn.
All the old English Bibles used it. But today people confuse unicorn with the mystical horse.
 
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Dinosaurs are reptiles and their creation is mentioned in Genesis. Any fair-minded person can see that.

This cave drawing of a Sauropod was discovered on a rock ledge at the edge of the Amazon rain forest basin in northern Peru. It shows 9 warriors hunting this giant Sauropod.

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Stegosaurus engraving discovered on Buddhist temple in Cambodia.
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The Australian "dinosaur" has a pouch with something looking out of it, and jumping hind legs. Looks like a kangaroo.

The "stegosaurus" has a huge head and horns, and front legs as long as the rear. And it has no thagomizer. And the round things behind it are not attached to its body; notice that the backbone is turned toward us behind the head, and they aren't attached.

Looks like a water buffalo.
 
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The Australian "dinosaur" has a pouch with something looking out of it, and jumping hind legs. Looks like a kangaroo.

According to the OP, that one in red with the pouch and the strong hind legs was in Peru.
 
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According to the OP, that one in red with the pouch and the strong hind legs was in Peru.

If so, it's hard to say what it might be. Obviously, no dinosaur ever had mammal hind legs. And that bulge underneath, indicates a mammal. Even if it's not a pouch, dinosaurs didn't have external genitalia.

There were a lot of marsupials in South America in the distant pass, but since there were already litopterns filling the nich normally held by ungulates, I don't think kangaroos ever evolved there.

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Don't know of any. Llamas wouldn't fit, because of the hind legs. Of course, if western civilization died out, a future archaeologist might wonder about unicorns, dragons, and Pokemon.
 
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All I'm saying in the OP is that "reptile terrae" translates to "reptile earth" in Latin. And since the word "dinosaur" is a relatively new word, coined in 1841, that "reptile earth" can transliterate into "dinosaur earth" in modern English. People want to know if there is any mention of dinosaurs in the Bible and "reptile terrae" covers it just fine. ;)
 
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That is a whole lot of writing to prove that dinosaurs were created during the creation of earth as we know it today. Did you ever think that maybe before God created us that there was civilization on this earth or even dinosaurs? The Bible isn't specific about that for a reason. It says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void". It never says any timeline between when the earth was created and when God deemed it without form and void. It promptly begins to talk about how God created our earth reshaping it and separating the land from the sea, probably covering up a lot of old civilizations, old dinosaurs carcasses and such. Do you have scripture to say otherwise?
 
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That is a whole lot of writing to prove that dinosaurs were created during the creation of earth as we know it today. Did you ever think that maybe before God created us that there was civilization on this earth or even dinosaurs? The Bible isn't specific about that for a reason. It says that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void". It never says any timeline between when the earth was created and when God deemed it without form and void. It promptly begins to talk about how God created our earth reshaping it and separating the land from the sea, probably covering up a lot of old civilizations, old dinosaurs carcasses and such. Do you have scripture to say otherwise?
Revelation 21:1 is clear that we are still living in the first earth age.

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

OEC is wrong.
 
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Revelation 21:1 is clear that we are still living in the first earth age.

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

OEC is wrong.
I had no idea what OEC was before a week ago. Doesn't change the fact that I have believed for a very long time that God didn't create earth as we know it at the time of our creation. I do think the bible was written in a specific way and God really doesn't want us questioning what goes on in His realm. Just like with the Tower of Babel. Man was trying to reach the heavens to find out more about God. While we have been to space and God didn't stop that, His point was that there are things that we don't need to know or understand, so don't even try. At the time that the Bible was written do you think man was privy to the possibility that there was something here on this planet before us? When I read Revelation 21:1 I see John having a vision of what he knew to be the first heaven and earth, and then a new heaven and earth. That doesn't explain to me why that means that the earth is not older than man's existence. Just trying to learn here, not dispute what you are saying.
 
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I had no idea what OEC was before a week ago. Doesn't change the fact that I have believed for a very long time that God didn't create earth as we know it at the time of our creation. I do think the bible was written in a specific way and God really doesn't want us questioning what goes on in His realm. Just like with the Tower of Babel. Man was trying to reach the heavens to find out more about God. While we have been to space and God didn't stop that, His point was that there are things that we don't need to know or understand, so don't even try. At the time that the Bible was written do you think man was privy to the possibility that there was something here on this planet before us? When I read Revelation 21:1 I see John having a vision of what he knew to be the first heaven and earth, and then a new heaven and earth. That doesn't explain to me why that means that the earth is not older than man's existence. Just trying to learn here, not dispute what you are saying.
Because if you believe there was a world before this earth age you believe there was death before Adam. Revelation is plainly saying there is only two earth ages which excludes a third option that life on earth existed before creation. I don't see why it is so hard to believe God created it in the time frame He said He did. But I do not fear evolution so it is easy for me to accept Biblical creation over evolution theory.
 
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Genesis 1:25,

"et fecit Deus bestias terrae iuxta species suas et iumenta et omne reptile terrae in genere suo et vidit Deus quod esset bonum"

The phrase "reptile terrae" means "reptile earth" in English!

"bestias terrae" means "beasts of the earth" and "reptile terrae" means "reptiles of the earth".
 
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