What do you think?

[Teckor]

What would you think if I said I believe in dragons (or dragon like creatures)?
What if I said that their meantioned in the Bible?

Believe it or not the Bible mentions some pretty bizarre creatures. Unicorns, satyrs, leviathan, behemoth, and yes dragons.

These creatures as mentioned as actual animals in the Bible.

Dragons are more oftenly used to describe Satan (duch as in Revelation or in parts of Isaiah). However though, there are times where it is mentioned as a creature. Here are the verses:
Psalm 44:19
Psalm 74:13
Psalm 91:13
Psalm 148:7
Isaiah 13:22
Isaiah 34:13
Nehemiah 2:13
Jeremiah 51:34
Ezekiel 29:3
Whether or not the dragons of the Bible are what we think they are I don't know, I'm not sure anyone alive cna really say for certain, not enough of a description.

Unicrons? Yup.
Deuteronomy 33:17
Numbers 23:22
Numbers 24:8
Job 39:9-10
Psalms 22:21
Psalm 29:6
Psalm 92:10
Isaiah 34:7
Whatever they are, their different from a horse (Job 39 also talks about horses so it would be logical to assume that the unicorn isn't a horse) and in one of the psalm's it mentions "the horn of an unicorn". Singular, one horn. Other than that though, I couldn't figure what it is.

Satyrs, only two times mentioned.
Isaiah 13:21
Isaiah 34:14
What they are, not a clue. Although, it doesn't make sense to me why it would be any animal with an alternate name that would have been used then.

Leviathan is mentioned not just in Job.
Job 41
Psalm 74:14
Psalm 104:26
It however is also sometimes used as a reference to Satan however. Oddly enough though, it describes the Leviathan as being able to "breathe" fire in Job. So it could be classified as a "dragon" that swims.

Behemoth, poor thing, only mentioned once.
Job 40

What exactly all these creatures are is quite debately, but there is the possiblity that they are a different species.


So, the big question, what do you think?

[Teckor]

silence? no body has anything to say? anything?

[falklands]

I don't have anything to say. I have no idea what these creatures really are, and I don't think it's especially important to speculate about them.

[steelsheen]

I agree mostly with Falklands.

[Armany]

I don't really know either. I think that the leviathan and behemoth are references to some sort of dinosaur- but that's just my opinion. I have no clue on the dragons/unicorns. I don't think that either exist, though.

However, let me say that the pre-1000 BC was a very different world from that which we are familiar IMO.

[Teckor]

well, thx for the replies.

[rndomnesorthirdday]

A lot of that could have been in the translation. What we interpret a specific word to mean might not be at all what the orginal writers thought it did.

As far as whether or not dragons and such exist, I don't see why not. I also don't see why. I don't think that dragons are any less likely than some of the creatures we have. But who knows? It doesn't really matter to me, I guess.

[Geberia]

yes I've always thought that the dragons described in the middle Ages were actualy dinasours. But i have no way to prove it

[Teckor]

wel, just something to chew. Really kinda makes you think though as to what he might be trying to say.

[New Titania (TD)]

Interesting....

I'll have to say, though, that I really don't believe it, but it's interesting.

[christian]

my father said that the flying grasshopper that stings people i think in Revelation im not sure could be a vission of modern day helocopters

think about it your living in a day without cars engines or anything modern and you see a helpcopter in a dream what else could you think it was besides a dragon

[Teckor]

..... possibly ......
However, helicopters don't torment ppl to the point that they want to die but yet don't.

But you do have an interesting point, that some of it might be speaking metaphorically or in a way that ppl of that time would understand it as.

[fallenone]

Satyrs are greek mythic dieties with the torso of a man and the body of a goat. (Pan of greek mythology was a Satyrs)

slightly interesting story, but i'm more of a Kitsune man myself.

[Teckor]

But what creature is it referring to when it says "satyr". Granted the English and such probably came from the Greeks and the English word "Hell" might have come from the Norse "Hel" but still the question remains, what does it refer to.