Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible Quotes

“There are hosts of other (lesser known) supposed extinction models that state the dinosaurs died because of: • An explosion of a nearby star that sent deadly cosmic radiation to earth • Diseases (like viruses or bacterial outbreaks) • Starvation • Climate change • Acid rain • Toxic foods • Tsunamis or other local floods • An ice age • Parasites • Rapid fungal outbreaks • Egg disorders • Magnetic field reversals • Mammals ate too many of their eggs • Volcanic eruptions • Aliens that invaded and killed or took them (yes, there are people who believe this) Notice that man hunting them and destroying their habitats to the point of extinction is not listed as a possible reason and not even considered an option by evolutionists (since humans and dinosaurs cannot live together in their secular story). And yet this was surely the case, after the Flood, up until dinosaurs went fully extinct.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“These carvings in the Scientific American are shown here: One site, Talk Origins, repeats these four images and cites the Scientific American paper with a simple statement that reads: These prints found in Carboniferous rock are claimed by creationists to be out-of-order human footprints. They do not, however, look particularly human.46 However, these prints are not the Berean footprints. And these prints are not a possible set of out-of-order human footprints, as supposedly claimed by some creationists. Rather, these images are clearly Native American carvings!”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Dr. Burroughs couldn’t believe that human footprints could even potentially be found in 300 million-year-old sediment (by humanistic evolutionary reckoning). So, based on his religious assumptions, he believed the prints must’ve been made by an animal that had human-like feet and walked in a stride like humans. The problem is that there are no animals that have feet like humans and strides like a human. So, as an arbitrary speculation, he proposed that an unknown giant bipedal (“walked on two-feet”) amphibian made the prints.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“In 1885, the Berean tracks were first discovered about 12 miles from Berea, Kentucky, in sandstone. These tracks were examined by Professor J.F. Brown of Berea College, Kentucky, as reported in the American Antiquarian.42 The report indicated that there were two well-preserved human prints, with proper-sized feet and toes visibly spread.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“John Morris, son of the famed Henry Morris (a well-respected creationist), published on these footprints at the Taylor Trail, affirming the possibility that these tracks were made by humans.23 But by 1986, Morris backed off this position and publicly affirmed the following: In view of these developments, none of the four trails at the Taylor site can today be regarded as unquestionably of human origin. The Taylor Trail appears, obviously, dinosaurian, as do two prints thought to be in the Turnage Trail. The Giant Trail has what appears to be dinosaur prints leading toward it, and some of the Ryals tracks seem to be developing claw features, also.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“On the other hand, from the biblical worldview, finding human footprints in rock layers is not a problem but actually a confirmation of what we expect to find — humans have been leaving footprints since Day 6 of Creation Week. However, any footprints left prior to the Flood were likely destroyed in the Flood. During the Flood, just like animals, human tracks are a possibility up until the 150th day.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“In 1978, a team led by Mary Leakey (an evolutionist) discovered a trail of human footprints in the Laetoli site in Tanzania, Africa, which consists of about 70 human ichnites for about 88 feet (~27 meters). The tracks are preserved in volcanic ash, along with other critter footprints. Why the big deal? In the secular story, this ash bed is supposedly 3.6 million years old. Whereas, from a biblical viewpoint, these tracks were made post-Flood, post-Babel (likely descendants of Noah’s grandson Cush, who inhabited much of that area2”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“The word Ichnite, or Ichnolite, comes from the Latinized form (ikhnos) of the Greek word that means track or footprint. When ichn- is combined with –ite, it means mineralized or fossilized. Thus, ichnology is the study of fossil footprints.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Unlike the many other brief mentions of land dragons or beasts elsewhere in the Bible, the behemoth in Job 40 is discussed in great detail. It is a land creature of immense size that is described with features similar to a sauropod.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Merril Unger who penned Unger’s Bible Dictionary in the mid-1900s wrote: (Hebrew tannin) This word is used in the Authorized Version with several meanings: (1) In connection with desert animals (Isa. 13:22; 34:13, 14, etc.), it is best translated by wolf, and not by jackal as in the Revised Version. The feminine form of the Hebrew tannah is found in Mal. 1:3. (2) Sea monsters (Psa. 74:13; 148:7; Isa. 27:1). (3) Serpents, even the smaller sorts (Deut. 32:33; Psa. 91:13)….one of the Hebrew words, usually rendered dragon is in some places translated serpents (Exodus 7:9, 10, 12).27 Unger was still debating against jackals in the mid-1900s for another creature — a wolf!”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Gill writes in his commentary notes on Malachi 1:3:25 A learned Jew is of opinion, that not serpents, but jackals, are here meant, which are a sort of wild howling beasts, that live abroad in desolate places. Jackals are basically dogs, whose cackling howls are well known. Coyotes are similar in their cackling howls and are sometimes known as American jackals. Nevertheless, the Jewish scholar in reference was a poet who lived near Spain, named Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi, and died around a.d. 1300. This reference is known because of Richard Pococke (sometimes spelled Pocock), from whom Gill garnered this information (Micah 1:826).”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“For instance, John Calvin, a leading Reformer, relates in a footnote in his commentary notes on Psalm 63:9–11:22 Under the Hebrew word שׂועל‎, shual, here rendered fox, was comprehended, in common language, the jackal, or Vulpes aureus, golden wolf, so called in Latin because its color is a bright yellow; and in this sense שׂועל‎, shual, has been generally interpreted here, because the jackal is found in Palestine, and feeds on carrion. Both of these circumstances are, however, also applicable to the fox, and, moreover, Bochart has made it probable that the specific name of the jackal (the θως of the Greeks) in Hebrew was אי‎, aye, the howler, being so called from the howling cry which he makes particularly at night. The term occurs in Isa 13:22, 34:14; and Jer 50:39; where איים‎, ayim, is rendered, in our version, “the wild beasts of the islands,” an appellation very vague and indeterminate. At the same time, it is highly probable that shual generally refers to the jackal. Several of the modern oriental names of this animal, as the Turkish chical, and the Persian sciagal, sciachal, or schachal — whence the English jackal — from their resemblance to the Hebrew word shual, favor this supposition; and Dr Shaw, and other travelers, inform us, that while jackals are very numerous in Palestine, the common fox is rarely to be met with. We shall, therefore, be more correct, under these circumstances, in admitting that the jackal of the East is the Hebrew shual.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Another scholar (Samuel Davidson) revealed the reason and the driving belief behind this change in the LXX (from 1844–1870). Davidson, on discussing Brenton’s new translation of the LXX, points out that symbolism should be “generally” translated. And he then goes on to defend Brenton’s idea that dragons are in the symbolic category because a “mythological idea is attached.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Adam Clarke (1762–1832) was a respected Wesleyan/Methodist pastor, biblical scholar, and commentator whom I’ve referenced many times over the past years. Adam Clarke actually mentioned “dragons” several times in his Bible commentary. However, in Ezekiel 29:39 he clarifies what he really means by “dragon,” saying: The great dragon hattannim should here be translated crocodile, as that is a real animal, and numerous in the Nile; whereas the dragon is wholly fabulous. The original signifies any large animal.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“In both Nelson’s Perpetual Loose Leaf Encyclopaedia4 and Britannica, dragons were officially declared unreal creatures in their entries under “dragon.” Britannica states: Nor were these dragons anything but very real terrors, even in the imaginations of the learned until comparatively modern times. As the waste places were cleared, indeed, they withdrew farther from the haunts of men, and in Europe their last lurking-places were the inaccessible heights of the Alps, where they lingered till Jacques Balmain set the fashion which has finally relegated them to the realm of myth.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“For instance, the Tombstone Epitaph, in the late 1800s, recorded an account of two ranchers who encountered a large pterosaur-like dragon, which they were able to kill using their rifles, that was witnessed by several townspeople.3 Samples of this encounter were even sent off to scientists back east. But once again, it appears a dragon was killed, when there may have only been a precious few that still existed at that time.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“One such “mild attack” was a translation change in the Bible that largely went unnoticed by most people, yet many, including certain scholars, fell “hook, line, and sinker” for it. When the word “dragon” was changed to “jackals” (or something else other than dragons), precious few comments were given for the change. That is, this change was done with little defense or rebuttal against it!”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“First Century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who was a prominent Jewish military leader who fought against the Romans during the Jewish-Roman War (a.d. 66–70), which led to the destruction of the Temple, Jerusalem and Judea, around a.d. 70, was commissioned to write a history of the Jewish people for his Roman conquerors. When discussing the exploits of Moses, he wrote: (245) for when the ground was difficult to be passed over, because of the multitude of serpents, (which it produces in vast numbers, and indeed is singular in some of those productions, which other countries do not breed, and yet such as are worse than others, in power and mischief, and an unusual fierceness of sight, some of which ascend out of the ground unseen, and also fly in the air, and so come upon men at unawares, and do them a mischief), Moses invented a wonderful stratagem to preserve the army safe, and without harm; (246) for he made baskets, like to arks, of sedge, and filled them with ibis, and carried them along with them; which animal is the greatest enemy to serpents imaginable, for they flee from them when they come near them; and as they flee they are caught and devoured by them, as if it were done by the harts; (247)but the ibis are tame creatures, and only enemies to the serpentine kind: but about these ibis I say no more at present, since the Greeks themselves are not unacquainted with this sort of bird. As soon, therefore, as Moses was come to the land which was the breeder of these serpents, he let loose the ibis, and by their means repelled the serpentine kind, and used them for his assistants before the army came upon that ground.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Others have suggested a plesiosaurus, since by its design it can raise itself up and crash back to the water (e.g., Job 41:257). So, this is also a possibility. Leviathan’s primary habitat is the great sea (Psalm 104:25–26), but it can also rest near the land, inlets, and rivers to potentially “be stirred up” (Job 41:108). And it has a neck strong enough to be called out by God (Job 41:229). No doubt, the identity of leviathan is a good question to debate, even with creatures like crocodiles being ruled out.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“The name Leviathan may also be a compound word. Hebraist John Gill writes: …it is not easy to say “Leviathan” is a compound word of than the first syllable of “thanni,” rendered either a whale, or a dragon, or a serpent, and of “levi,” which signifies conjunction, from the close joining of its scales, Job 41:15–17; the patriarch Levi had his name from the same word; see Ge 29:34; and the name bids fairest for the crocodile, and which is called “thannin,” Eze 29:3,4 32:2. Could the crocodile be established as the “leviathan”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“The leviathan is also a dragon according to Isaiah 27:1. So each instance of Leviathan in the Bible is technically discussing a dragon. Albeit the leviathan is a sea dragon so it wouldn’t be a dinosaur (by definition). Leviathan is mentioned in four different verses in the Bible, though the entirety of Job 41 discusses this creature in detail — he breathes fire, and spears, darts, lances, javelins, and swords can’t pierce him.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Prior to the late 1800s, the Hebrew words tannin, tannim, tannah/tannot, or tanninim, were historically translated as “dragon(s)” in most translations, in both English and foreign languages”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“These types of vicious attacks could be the reason that Satan is metaphorically called a “dragon” in Scripture (e.g., Revelation 12:311); also consider Satan’s use of a serpent in Genesis 3:112 to deceive Eve, which ultimately led to Adam’s disobedience that brought sin and death into the whole world (Romans 5:1213).”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“For instance, in 1927, one dictionary still viewed dragons as real but rare, stating:  A huge serpent or snake (now rare); a fabulous monster variously represented, generally as a huge winged reptile with crested head and terrible claws, and often as spouting fire; in the Bible, a large serpent a crocodile, a great marine animal, or a jackal.5 But, again, this makes sense. As people spread out and settled in more lands, dragons, which were largely rare creatures anyway, were pushed to the brink of extinction.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Dragons are very strange creatures. 2. No one can find them. 3. They seem to exist only in the old descriptions, accounts, and drawings! If we don’t know our history, are we doomed to repeat the same mistake? Sadly, in recent times, secular scientists have relegated dragons to myths as well. But unlike the dodo, which is just a particular type of bird, dragons represent a large range of different types of reptilian creatures. Moreover, there exists a massive number of descriptions, drawings, and accounts of dragons from all over the world,”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“So, in other words, crocodiles, komodo dragons, alligators, and so on, are not technically dinosaurs since their hip structures have their legs coming out to the side, which causes their belly to naturally rest on the ground. This also means flying reptiles like pterodactyls, and water reptiles like plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs either. Simply put: all dinosaurs are dragons, but not all dragons are dinosaurs.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Edwin Colbert wrote in 1984: For this group, Owen coined the name Dinosauria — from the Greek deinos, meaning terrible, and sauros, meaning lizard. (One must not be confused by Owen’s choice of a Greek word meaning “lizard” when he devised the name for this group of reptiles; the Greeks did not always have a word for everything, so Owen chose the term etymologically which was the nearest this he could get. Perhaps it is permissible to extend the original meaning of the Greek word, and think of sauros in this connection as meaning “reptile.”)”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“The word dinosaur was coined by a Christian man named Sir Richard Owen, who first used this term in 1841, which is about 200–300 years after the Bible had been put into English. Richard Owen was a famous comparative anatomist, biologist, and paleontologist from England and was the founder and first superintendent of the British Museum of Natural History (now called the Natural History Museum in London due to a name change in 1992).”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“Nevertheless, modern-day naturalists, because of their religiously held belief, widely assume there were no major catastrophes in the past that produced the rock layers, which contain dinosaurs (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous), but instead believe the rock layers were laid down slowly over “long ages.” This is why the secular world REFUSES to publish technical papers in their journals about a global (i.e., worldwide) Flood on earth. A global Flood totally destroys their “millions of years” story!”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible

“The Hebrew word owph, that we normally translate as “bird” in Genesis 1 and Genesis 7, means creatures with wings. This obviously includes birds (the predominant type here) but also other winged creatures — such as bats, flightless birds, flying reptiles, etc. For example, ostriches and bats are included under this word owph in Leviticus 11. Most commentators recognize that Genesis 7:3 (see above), “seven each of the birds of the air,” is tied to the backdrop of clean creatures in Genesis 7:2 (see above). Verse 2 lists all animals coming onboard the ark in two categories — clean and unclean — and how many of each. When verse 3 immediately after that lists 7, it is discussing a subgroup of the clean animals, otherwise, verse 2 is in error. However, contextually, this doesn’t mean all winged/flying creatures came by 7 but instead limited to 7 of the clean ones. Pteranodons and pterodactyls are not among the clean creatures defined per the Bible (Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14). For instance, Leupold writes: In v. 3 the idea of “the birds of the heavens” must, of course, be supplemented by the adjective “clean,” according to the principle laid down in v. 2.24 Likewise, Dr. John Gill, who agrees when discussing the birds, writes: That is, of such as were clean; seven couple of these were to be brought into the ark, for the like use as of the clean beasts, and those under the law.”
― Bodie Hodge, Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible