Because at the time when it was being written down nobody knew about them.

because the bible makes the earth no older than 6,000 years if taken literally and any dinosaurs would have been extinct long before that.

Somewhere it says something about 'great beasts', but don't ask me where, I'm lousy at remembering books and verse numbers.

The Bible isn't a book on natural history or prehistoric cultures. Its intent is to teach spiritual truths. But notice that nothing in the Bible precludes either. Adam was the first being that God installed an immortal soul in. But earlier versions between making man from dust and the appearance of Adam are entirely possible. The Bible does NOT say the earth is 6000 years old. There are billions of years between Genesis 1 and 2.

Ask this to the right Christian, and they will actually tell you that God put Dinosaur bones there to test our faith. Yes, I have been told this before. A few times. I get into a few religious debates.

Some say there ARE references to dinosaurs and even extraterrestrials i.e. (a spinning wheel within a wheel in the sky). Here's what I've been told. The Bible isn't an account of Earth's transformation, but geared towards modern (upright walking) men on Earth.

When the Bible was written, most people never ventured 100 miles from their home in their entire life and received no formal education, which consisted of learning to read and sing Hebrew and studying the Talmud ~ if you were male, before the Bible was written, presumably.

IF there was prehistoric men then that would lead to evelution. Evelution is sciene.

Here's my personal take on the thing and I'm far from expert. The Bible I've learned the most from is The New English Bible. The chapter and verse numbers are outside the margin so as not to distract and it's in plain English so it reads like a novel. The Bible is from a Hebrew perspective. Meaning that even though dinosaurs, "Lucy", the family in the cave in Borneo were real, and they were real, look at their bones; they're existance had no direct bearing or impact on the perspective that the writer(s) were trying to reflect. The writer(s) do make reference to Seth, Nimrod, Noah, Lot and the like because they are high spots in the writer(s) perspective. For instance, the Russian invasion of Georgia happened, so did the election of Barack Obama but neither event is related to the sports writers story of how in the world so-and-so could have dropped the ball on the other teams two yard line after forth down (that's a pathetic picture isn't it?) so the sports writer isn't going to be mentioning either of those other two events. I hope you can follow my sometimes off the wall analogies. God was involved with his creation from the whenever the beginning was. The Bible's perspective is the story of Gods involvement with people in a personal way beginning with Abraham not creation as a whole. God has and always will be involved with the creation as a whole but I believe that the perspective is Gods relationship to people on a personal level both physically and spiritually. Does the Bible explain everything? No. It doesn't say anything about dinosaurs. The large creatures mentioned in Genesis "...took wives to themselves from the daughters of men..." I seriously doubt that any human woman, Neandethal or not, is going to mate with a dinosaur. So what were the "giants"? I haven't the foggiest notion. I hope all this makes some sense. Note: In the Book of Acts there isa story about the Apostle Paul delivering sermon to the Jews about how Jesus was the Messiah. It continues to say that after he finished speaking they returned to their homes and searched the scriptures "...to see if the things that he had said were so." READ it for yourself. Just because the guy on TV Sunday morning said it don't make it so.

What is the Hebrew name for dinosaur? No idea? That is because there is no such word. We translated the text from the Hebrew as best as we could. Using our modern names in replacing the Hebrew text. For Example: The Hebrew name "namer" meaning cheetah. How about "akbar", meaning the mouse. The transliterated hebrew name used in the Bible is "Behemoth". It had no English equivalent as the Animal referenced either did not exist, or went extinct. Another ancient Hebrew name is Tannin Behemoth was only used sometime 1800 A.D. The English translation for the KJB was only done after 1611 A.D. The actual Hebrew name used is Leviathan. Behemoth: kingly, gigantic beasts. Tannin: Term which includes dragon-like animals, includes great sea creatures for example, whales, giant squids, and marine reptiles (for example plesiosaurs their extinct). Do yourself a huge favour by reading The Book of Job. Pay attention to Chapter 40 and 41.

It isn't the subject of the book. It isn't an exhaustive history of the world or a science book. It is a book about God's interaction with humankind. It isn't about God's interaction with dinosaurs. As far as prehistoric man, what do you think Adam was?

Because Noah couldn't fit him in his ark, let them out to die and they all feel guilty about it so they ignore it, as if it never happened

Like "In the beginning, Jesus rode the dinosaurs and saw that it was good?"

I, too, am not a big Bible person. But doesn't the Bible address the big fight between God and the bad guy, Satan, and friends. Wouldn't that qualify as "prehistoric"?

Apparently, the Bible is only good for telling people what to do (preferrably non Christians), nothing else, nothing more

Because on the on the fifth day God created animals and on the sixth He created man. Humans and dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time, there are fossils of dinosaur footprints with human footprints in them. Dinosaurs did not exist before man. Any questions, comments, violent dissagreements, please ask or send email to dan.deur648@gmail.com

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The bible does mention dinosaurs. Job is speaking with God and God says "Behold now, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox. Behold now, his strength in his loins and his power in the muscles of his belly. He bends his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron. He is the first of the ways of God. Let his maker bring near his sword." "Job 40:15-19" There has never been another animal that fits that description other than a dinosaur. Also it speaks of this creature as if it esisted at that time. And we didn't even know about dinosaurs up until the last few centuries. Before then, whenever dinosaur bones were discovered they were believed to have belonged to giants. Apparently the writers of the bible knew of an enormous creature that walked the lands and was a herbavore and fits the description of a "dinosaur".

These answers are hilarious. Orwell would be proud

Probably because there are no "prehistoric" men and women in the Bible. Adam and Eve are matter of recorded history. If indeed you believe Scripture. Dinosaurs (not what they were called in the Bible because it's a relativly new word, 1851 AD) are mentioned in the Bible. They were called tanniyn (dragon). Behemoth, very possibly a brachiosaurus, and Leviathin, possibly a kronosaurus, based on their description as found in the Book of Job, chapters 40 and 41 as well as Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. If they weren't a brachiosaraus or kronosaurus, they were certainly creatures of huge and frightening proportions and appearance.

Because that was all over loooooong before the bible was written. No-one at the time of writing the bible knew about such things.