Dinosaurs in the Bible? Dragons? Youth Bible Study Lesson

Brief: The Bible includes descriptions of dragons and dinosaurs.

(Printable Student Sheet)

 

Needed: Dinosaur and Dragon Legends quiz (student sheet)

 

Recap

We’ve been looking at Genesis 1 and the record of how God created the world. We talked about how God didn’t create every species of plant and animal. He made the kinds of plants and animals. Now, let’s talk about some of those specific kinds of animals.

 

Scripture: Genesis 1:20-25; Job 40:15-24; Job 41

 

Read Genesis 1:20-25

What about the dinosaurs? Does the Bible talk about dinosaurs? Were the dinosaurs one of the things that God created?

 

Answers to Student Sheet Quiz Questions

1..Dinosaurs lived from about 6’000 to 4.5 thousand years ago. The Bible says that the world was created about 6’000 years ago and that the Flood happened about 4.5 thousand years ago.

2. Dinosaurs were created in their kinds by God. God did not create each species of dinosaur, but He created them in their family groups, in their kinds. The flying and swimming dinosaurs were created on day 5 with the rest of the flying and swimming animals, and the land dinosaurs were created on day 6 with the rest of the land animals.

3. Most of the dinosaurs were killed in the Flood. Those that survived the Flood eventually became extinct due to the changing climate of the world after the Flood, a reduced food supply, and hunters.

4. Humans and dinosaurs did live at the same time. All land animals, including the dinosaurs, and people were made by God on day 6. Dinosaurs lived with humans until the dinosaurs became extinct.

5. Fire-breathing dragons, or fire-breathing dinosaurs, were once real creatures. The Bible describes one.

6. The Bible does describe a couple of dinosaurs.

7. The Bible does describe a fire-breathing dragon, or dinosaur.

 

Let’s look at a couple of those descriptions that the Bible gives of dinosaurs.

Read Job 40:15-24

What does this passage sound like it’s describing? (A brontosaurus.)

Read Job 41

What does it sound like this passage is describing? (A fire-breathing sea-dragon, or a fire-breathing water dinosaur.)

So, the Bible does describe dinosaurs and dragons as part of God’s creation.