The following "Question" was asked by a member of the congregation at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and "Answered" by their pastor, John MacArthur Jr. It was transcribed from the tape, GC 1301-A, titled "Bible Questions and Answers Part 3."  A copy of the tape can be obtained by writing, Word of Grace, P.O. Box 4000, Panorama City, CA 91412 or by dialing toll free 1-800-55-GRACE.  ©1976. All Rights Reserved.

Question

Is there any room for dinosaurs in the Bible?

Answer

I guess it depends on how big your Bible is. Let me answer that a little more honestly… Yes, there is room for the inclusion of animals like dinosaurs in the time before flood. You realize that from the creation of man until the flood (the Great Flood occurs about the sixth chapter of Genesis) until that time men lived a long time, right? Nine hundred and many years Adam lived, Methuselah lived. They lived a tremendous amount of time, approaching even a thousand years. At that time prior to the flood, there was no rain upon the earth; it had never rained before it rained then. That’s why nobody believed when Noah went around saying, “It’s going to rain.” They were all saying, “It’s going to what?” because there was no rain, see.

So, prior to that time, there was a canopy over the earth and the canopy filtered out the rays of the sun, consequently preserving life and life was elongated. It was during that period prior to the flood that such things as the dinosaurs most likely existed. And then, of course, at the great holocaust of the flood, they were captured and trapped…and we have found bones from such a time.

You say, “Well, now wait a minute. Wasn’t that millions and millions of years ago?” No, it wasn’t at all millions and millions of years ago. It was a few thousand years ago, truthfully. So, some of these things are still preserved even today.

So there is certainly room in the pre-flood time for the inclusion of dinosaurs.

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