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DID DINOSAURS REALLY EXIST?

Introduction

  1. Read some material from evolutionists

    1. First appeared 231.5 million years ago

    2. The became extinct 135 million years later

    3. Means they became extinct 96 million years ago

  2. What does the Bible have to say about them?

Word study

Behemoth – beast

    1. Study Job 40:15-24

    2. Eats grass 15

    3. Strong in hips and stomach 16

    4. Large like a cedar 17

    5. Bones like iron and brass 18

    6. Massive in size 19

    7. This Hebrew word occurs 190 times - “beast”

Leviathan – sea creatures

    1. Job 41:1-34

    2. Could not be tamed 4

    3. Not a pet5

    4. Not harmed by any weapon – spear, arrow, javelin, slingshot 9, 26-29

    5. Fearless 33

    6. Will attack 10

    7. Terrible teeth all around his mouth 14

    8. Body covered with rows of scales 15

    9. Feared by warriors 25

    10. Largest of all creatures 9

    11. Fiercest of all creatures 9-10

    12. Breastplate strong protection 30
       

  1. Sea monster – tannin

    1. 28 times in OT

    2. Isaiah 27:1

    3. Translated sea creature, monster, sea monster, dragon

English word – Dinosaur

  1. English word did not exist until 1841

  2. Means terrible, powerful lizard.

  3. Did not exist when KJV was translated

Real issue – Did they exist with humans?

  1. Greek vase dated 550 BC shows both

  2. Historian Herodotus – 450 BC – talks about men battling them

  3. Indian drawings in Arizona and Utah show them with men

  4. Peruvian burial stones with dinosaurs carved on them (dated 500 – 1500 AD)

  5. Many other carvings, figurines, and drawings

  6. Then there is Rose Glen – human and dinosaur footprints in the same lava flow.

Conclusion

  1. Evolutionists refuse to acknowledge that humans and dinosaurs co-existed

  2. Now you know the truth – Yes they existed and became extinct.

  3. So have many other species that we know existed 200 – 1,000 years ago


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