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Originally Posted by WWJDnow
The Bible tells us about dragons 34 times.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Psalm 91:13
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I was particularly impressed that that was written so long after The Flood. The 91st Psalm does not include an author's name:
| Before 2500 BC | The Great Flood | Genesis 7 |
| Before 2500 BC | The Flood Subsides | Genesis 8 |
| Before 2500 BC | Covenant of the Rainbow | Genesis 9 |
| 979 BC | Psalms of Unknown Authors | Psalms 1 - 150 (Assorted) |
A time range between 2918 BC and 2448 BC is provided from Brown's commentary.
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These dates, on any standard used by dinosaur proponents, are so massively out of range as to be laughable. If dragons had died out (being dinosaurs) in 65,432,100 BC how could they have gotten onto The Ark? And if they had not done so, how would anyone know what they sounded like? Now sometimes we hear that phrases are used metaphorically. It could be argued that dragon trampling is a poetic description of something. Of
what, exactly, I can't imagine. Probably a mental image: danger, vile power – and indeed by cherry picking Scripture other examples could be found. Malachi, for instance, might have been using poetry to represent the blasting of Esau. "Dragons of the wilderness" would describe dust devils or skin red raw from wind-driven sand, raging thirst, hallucinations from heat stroke and so on.
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
I'm not actually making that claim, just a suggestion of how someone running billion-year clocks needs to think. But it's not thinking really, is it.
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Because Micah also refers to dragons IN THE CONTEXT OF KNOWN AND LIVING CREATURES. He is describing a type of sound. Yes, I've heard an owl; I know what type of sound is being referred to. As did the readers back then – otherwise what was the point of mentioning it at all? A dragon's wailing was equally familiar. Not to me perhaps but certainly to Micah's immediate readership. As familiar as an owl. If not, he might as well have written "I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the orgleflocktramine" since if dragons were supposed to be extinct a hundred million years ago an orgleflocktramine would be as useless as a dinosaur regarding its wails and grunts.
Micah was specific because he had a specific message which needed to be understood. It related to graven images, idols, harlotry, rolling in the dust, naked shame and mourning. So a very important message; he used familiar things in his message helping us to understand that the fossil timeline and God's timeline have nothing in common. Nothing in common at all.
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