Are dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible?

The lie of evolution has been told to our children so long it is becoming a stumbling block for many to come to faith in Jesus Christ.

What is the question I most have to answer concerning evolution? In one variation or another, it's about dinosaurs.

Here are a few variations of what I'm typically asked:

The Bible is the inerrant, unfailing Word of God. As such, the Creation account recorded in the Bible can be counted on as an accurate reflection of what actually happened!

Does the Bible speak of dinosaurs? Yes. There isn't a doubt in my mind. In fact, I challenge anyone who reads this to deny it.

Two creatures are spoken of in the Bible that are, in my opinion, dinosaurs. The first such creature is the leviathan.

1. Something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship.
2. A very large animal, especially a whale.
3. A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible.

Job 41:1-2: Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Psalms 104:26: There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

I know what you're thinking. The leviathan is a whale, right? Not at all. The Bible calls a leviathan a leviathan and a whale a whale!

In the very first book of the Bible, God specifically speaks of whales, calling them by their name. As such, we know a whale is a whale and a leviathan is a leviathan!

Genesis 1:21: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The second creature the Bible describes which is a dinosaur is the behemoth. Behemoth is defined in the dictionary as:

1. Something enormous in size or power.
2. often Behemoth. A huge animal, possibly the hippopotamus, described in the Bible.

A behemoth is no more a hippopotamus than a whale is a leviathan! Neither is the behemoth an elephant. The behemoth described in the Bible is a dinosaur.

Job 40:15-18: Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

The behemoth of the Bible isn't an elephant and he isn't a hippopotamus. How do we know that? Look up a picture of an elephant and look at his tail. Is his tail like a cedar? Nope. How about the tail of a hippopotamus? Is it like a cedar? Nope. What gigantic creature's tail is like a cedar? Do I even need to say it?

Does God make any mention of what became of the dinosaurs? I think so. Consider the following Scripture which is a continuation of the Scripture that describes the behemoth.

Job 40:19: He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

God made the dinosaurs to demonstrate to us the ways of God and the magnificence of His power, but He also demonstrated to us through the dinosaurs that the things God created He can likewise exercise control of, even to the point of destruction.

The God who made the most powerful beasts of all, the dinosaurs, made his sword to approach unto them. Unlike sinful mankind, the dinosaurs committed no sins. They lived their lives doing only what God made them to do. Although we don't know why God's sword approached them, perhaps it was to remind us that we're never too big or powerful to lift ourselves above God.

If Tyrannosaurus Rex couldn't stand against the sword of our God, what kind of chance do any of us comparatively weak humans have to stand against the Most High God in disobedience?