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Post by John on May 7, 2019 10:09:22 GMT -5
It may surprise some of you to know that I believe that the unicorn once existed. Unicorns are mentioned numerous times in the KJV Bible. To me, the question is not over whether they existed, but what they were? I do not believe the unicorn in scripture was a magical horse with a horn. One possible answer is that it was a type of ox with a single horn, but nobody knows for sure.
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. Numbers 23:22
God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. Numbers 24:8
His glory is like the firstlings of his bullock and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together, to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. Deuteronomy 33:17
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee? or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Job 39:9,10
Save me from the lions mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. Psalm 22:21
He maketh them also to skip like a calf: Lebanon, and Syria like a young unicorn. Psalm 29:6
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Psalm 92:10
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls, and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. Isaiah 34:7
I have no idea what a unicorn looked like, or perhaps looks like, if some may still exist in some remote areas of the planet, but one thing is for sure. Unicorns are very powerful animals, and it appears they are impossible to tame.
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Post by PG4Him on May 7, 2019 10:17:24 GMT -5
If a dodo bird can go extinct in modern history, who knows how many went extinct in times past?
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Post by 2fw8212a on May 7, 2019 10:20:23 GMT -5
With so many animals that once existed and are now extinct, it is not hard to believe in the existence of an animal like that.
I mean, we have very exotic animals living on the planet already and if we know them only by writings, we probably wouldn't believe.
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Post by Cletus on May 7, 2019 11:08:51 GMT -5
Personally I think unicorns are rhinos. I saw a video on a word study on this before. they took the word back thru time and it lead back thru many versions of dictionaries where it shows the word in the bible being traced back to being a rhino. a whole lot of researching had to be done going back, way way back. check it out:
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Post by John on May 7, 2019 11:19:59 GMT -5
Cletus, that does make sense, and does give us a likely answer.
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Post by solid on May 7, 2019 11:33:59 GMT -5
I wonder where the one horned horse unicorn originated?
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Post by John on May 7, 2019 11:39:25 GMT -5
I wonder where the one horned horse unicorn originated? Good question. In the case of the Bible, I think a one horned rhino fits.
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Post by Dezi on May 7, 2019 17:54:43 GMT -5
The way that Scientists are mixing so much DNA now and trying to make new creatures to ruin the way God set things up... I wouldn't doubt that Satan has a unicorn somewhere or will produce one. All these "magical" creatures are probably part of Satan's plan. I think these are some of the things Satan will use to trick people into believing his scheme that there are Aliens.
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Post by John on May 8, 2019 6:29:50 GMT -5
The way that Scientists are mixing so much DNA now and trying to make new creatures to ruin the way God set things up... I wouldn't doubt that Satan has a unicorn somewhere or will produce one. All these "magical" creatures are probably part of Satan's plan. I think these are some of the things Satan will use to trick people into believing his scheme that there are Aliens. Satan has been messing with DNA going back to the angel-human race of giants back in Genesis. The unicorn as a horse with a single horn with magical powers seems more mythological, but I don't know where it traces it's roots.
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Post by Sister on May 8, 2019 8:26:40 GMT -5
I think the emphasis of the unicorn may be more to do with the horn than with what type of animal it is. The Horn represents authority, strength, power.
Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalms 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
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Post by John on May 8, 2019 8:34:45 GMT -5
I think the emphasis of the unicorn may be more to do with the horn than with what type of animal it is. The Horn represents authority, strength, power.
Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalms 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
That is an interesting thought.
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Post by Dezi on May 8, 2019 8:41:41 GMT -5
The way that Scientists are mixing so much DNA now and trying to make new creatures to ruin the way God set things up... I wouldn't doubt that Satan has a unicorn somewhere or will produce one. All these "magical" creatures are probably part of Satan's plan. I think these are some of the things Satan will use to trick people into believing his scheme that there are Aliens. Satan has been messing with DNA going back to the angel-human race of giants back in Genesis. The unicorn as a horse with a single horn with magical powers seems more mythological, but I don't know where it traces it's roots.
Yes DNA has been messed with probably since the beginning of the earth because Satan tries to mess with everything God has created and distort it.
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Post by PG4Him on May 8, 2019 8:44:06 GMT -5
I can’t imagine the Bible would speak of unicorns in a positive way if they were freaks of nature.
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Post by John on May 8, 2019 8:51:40 GMT -5
I can’t imagine the Bible would speak of unicorns in a positive way if they were freaks of nature. I think Cletus probably got it right about a rhino with one horn. It seems to fit.
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Post by PG4Him on May 8, 2019 8:53:20 GMT -5
I wonder where the one horned horse unicorn originated? There were never any unicorns in Europe. Some Greek scholars traveled to the East where they encountered unicorns. They tried to describe what a unicorn was to the folks back home. Since the Greeks had horses and they seemed to be the most similar, Greeks pictured it as a horse with a horn. That picture worked its way through European fairy tales.
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