| Taken from http://www.bbspot.com /news/2005/01/tsunami_relief.html |
What did I MOST want as a little girl?? A UNICORN!! I seriously begged God for a Unicorn!! Good grief those creatures are crazy beautiful! May I ask, what young girl wouldn’t want one? My precious one horned stallion would have been named Bellerella, after all of my two favorite Disney Princesses! Bellerella is a pretty amazingly clever name for a unicorn if I say so myself, and it pretty much oozes awesomeness!
While Unicorns are thought to be fictitious creatures found in fairy tales, the Bible actually says otherwise! No snickering! THIS IS FOR REAL! Don’t be a Unicorn hater. In the King James Version of the Bible Unicorns are mentioned in Job, Psalms, and Isaiah.
“[…] the biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature. The Bible refers to the unicorn in the context of familiar animals, such as peacocks, lambs, lions, bullocks, goats, donkeys, horses, dogs, eagles, and calves (Job 39:9–12.1) In Job 38–41, God reminded Job of the characteristics of a variety of impressive animals He had created, showing Job that God was far above man in power and strength.2 Job had to be familiar with the animals on God’s list for the illustration to be effective […]”
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The article goes on to burst my bubble and smash my dreams by saying that this Unicorn in the Bible isn’t like the horse-like beauty we would think, but a more of a beastly, strong, horned animal. Boo. Some scholars think that the Biblical Unicorn could be a Rhino.
| Taken from: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/ animals/mammals/black-rhinoceros/ |
Nice. Whatever it is or was isn’t something we will probably find out this side of heaven. Still, it’s pretty cool to know that Unicorns are mentioned in the Bible. IT MADE MY DAY!