Are Dinosaurs Mentioned in Ancient Literature?
Interestingly, the word “dragon” is used a number of times in the Old Testament. In most instances, the word dinosaur could substitute for dragon and it would fit very nicely. Creation scientists believe that dinosaurs were called dragons before the word dinosaur was invented in the 1800s. We would not expect to find the word dinosaur in Bibles like the Authorized Version (1611), as it was translated well before the word dinosaur was ever used.
Also, there are many very old history books in various libraries around the world that have detailed records of dragons and their encounters with people. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly for creationists), many of these descriptions of dragons fit with how modern scientists would describe dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus. Unfortunately, this evidence is not considered valid by evolutionists. Why? Only because their belief is that man and dinosaurs did not live at the same time!
However, the more we research the historical literature, the more we realize there is overwhelming evidence that dragons were real beasts, much like our modern reconstructions of dinosaurs, and that their existence has been recorded by many different people, even just hundreds of years ago.
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Some argue against dragons being dinosaurs because in the Bible they are sometimes depicted as having many heads, but that argument fails because there are other real-life creatures who are also depicted in this manner - though we know they only have one head. The multiple heads are usually symbolical.
Read Daniel.
Daniel 7:6
“After that, I looked, and there before me was another animal. This animal looked like a leopard with four wings on its back that looked like a bird’s wings. This animal had four heads and was given power to rule.
No one would argue that leopards do not exist because this leopard have four wings and four heads... Why use then that argument when arguing against dragons in the Bible being dinosaurs?
Revelation 20:2
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
We can see in Daniel that God uses real-life creatures as images to convey spiritual truths. I think that using a dragon (dinosaur) as a picture of the Devil says something of his vicious ferociousness.