For the record the bible speaks of the existance of many things that you aren't typically taught in Sunday school, such as Sea Creatures, Giants, Beasts with smoke comeing from their nostrils, beings descending to earth from out of the heavens (space)...(ie the sons of God comeing to earth and interbreading with humans)
Chariots of fire.
If someone has no knowledge of the Bible or Christian terminology and saw a strange man come out of the sky riding on what appeared to be a vehicle powered by fire, light, flames...do you suppose he would think it was ET in a UFO, as opposed to Elijah returning?
Food for thought.
Before anyone asks
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Job 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Job 41:2 "Can you put a rope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3 "Will he make many supplications to you,
Or will he speak to you soft words?
Job 41:4 "Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?
Job 41:5 "Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Job 41:6 "Will the traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 "Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 "Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; you will not do it again!
Job 41:9 "Behold, your expectation is false;
Will you be laid low even at the sight of him?
Job 41:10 "No one is so fierce that he dares to arouse him;
Who then is he that can stand before Me?
Job 41:11 "Who has given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.
Job 41:13 "Who can strip off his outer armor?
Who can come within his double mail?
Job 41:14 "Who can open the doors of his face?
Around his teeth there is terror.
Job 41:15 "His strong scales are his pride,
Shut up as with a tight seal.
Job 41:16 "One is so near to another
That no air can come between them.
Job 41:17 "They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.
Job 41:18 "His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 "Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.
Job 41:20 "Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
Job 41:21 "His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Job 41:22 "In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.
Job 41:23 "The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.
Job 41:24 "His heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone.
Job 41:25 "When he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.
Job 41:26 "The sword that reaches him cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart or the javelin.
Job 41:27 "He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 "The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for him.
Job 41:29 "Clubs are regarded as stubble;
He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.
Job 41:30 "His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.
Job 41:31 "He makes the depths boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.
Job 41:32 "Behind him he makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired.
Job 41:33 "Nothing on earth is like him,
One made without fear.
Clearly taken in context Job was useing the Leviathan to make a broader point about God. But look closely at what he is describing in extream detail. Scientists will tell you that Dinasours did in FACT exist...and that much about them remains a mystery...we just recently in our years of technological advancement discovered life in depths of the sea we thought unlivable and some of that life does quite amazing things, like creating their own light. Truely the possibilitys are beyond our imagination...but ask a Scientist or a Christian if Dragons ever existed and you will get a resounding NO! I myself have never seen a dragon, but have reason to believe all things are possible. Hope the bigger point I was makeing is clear.
By the way the litteral translation for "Leviathan" from the Hebrew text in that passage is:
Livyathan (531b); "serpent," a sea monster or dragon:--Leviathan(6).