One ate grass like an ox and lived amongst lotus plants, marsh reeds and willows. The other had powerful limbs, airtight scales, smoking nostrils and a fiery breath [Bible:OT:Job40-41].
Some theologians and scholars interpret Behemoth and Leviathan as symbolic mythical beings which denote power and invincibility. Maybe. Or is this intellectualism to distance our pride from simple, yet unbelievable truths?
Some bible translations speak instead of the hippo and the crocodile. I have seen both, but I have never seen a crocodile billow smoke nor breathe fire. They are ferocious yes, but not invincible.
Is it really too difficult to believe that these were tremendous beasts which have simply become extinct?
Leviathan. Myth, Croc or Extinct ?
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1 comment:
do we write off the existence of such beings because they, apparently, breathed fire?
if the human body can maintain temperatures over 37C(99F), why is harder to believe of organs that could create fire? surely ignition just requires momentary (and intense) friction between two surfaces?
would we be able to differentiate the skeleton of one from a 'dinosaur skeleton' in a national museum?
job40&41 is an incredible monologue. it makes me far more reluctant to tell our kids that dragons never existed.
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