Enmos
Valued Senior Member
What, no arguments ? lol
Maybe I misread your post, was it intended to be sarcastic or something ?
As has been stated many times already, they thought it was a flat disk - not a sphere. Hence all the talk about god being "above" the "circle of the earth" and being able to see everything.IsaIAH 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
As has been stated many times already, they thought it was a flat disk - not a sphere. Hence all the talk about god being "above" the "circle of the earth" and being able to see everything.
The Bible writers wrote about the earth using terms that they understood at the time.
Do you think God would spend eons explaining scientific theories that would have no practical purpose at all at the time just so I could say in 2007, look He explained relativity!
While you ponder on this would you care to explain other apparent scientific errors in the Bible?
If you were aware of the history and the creation you may be thinking gyroscope and use circle for simplicity.
Any you cannot have a sphere without a circle.
Can anyone make anyhting of this?
Have not studies been done that say all stars are different?
Job 38
31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,Or loose the belt of Orion?
M*W: I found this to be quite interesting, since Job is thought to be the oldest text of the bible. I also realize that astronomy has been around 5,000 to 10,000 years, maybe longer
I found this to be quite interesting, since Job is thought to be the oldest text of the bible.
Wrong.
They had terms for CIRCLE, they had terms for BALL.
When the Bible writers described the earth, they used the TERM circle when they could have used the term BALL.
The phrases they used clearly dsecribe a flat earth.
So,
the terms and phrases used are for a FLAT earth.
But,
NOT ONE term or phrase implies a SPHERICAL earth.
What on earth is this about?
The bible writers wrote about a FLAT earth.
They used the terms and phrases which apply to a flat earth.
They used NO terms and phrases which applied to a spherical earth.
Cultures of the time all believed in a flat earth.
The bible writers all believed in a flat earth.
But,
true believers cannot admit it.
Sure -
There was no flood - the Bible is wrong.
You cannot make striped animals by showing them striped sticks when drinking - the Bible is wrong.
Woman was not made from man's rib - the Bible is wrong.
Snakes do not talk - the Bible is wrong.
The sun did not stop in the sky - the Bible is wrong.
There was never a tower of babel and 1 language - the Bible is wrong.
All the dead saints did NOT rise from the grave - the Bible is wrong.
Iasion
The book of Job is not so very old.
The sun did not stop in the sky - the Bible is wrong.
Were you there?
*************Since the book of job used the greek names for those stars (and they did), Therefore the book of job cannot be any older than the origin of those greek names, agreed? The book of Job is not so very old.
*************People still say "the four corners of the earth" now. It's a figure of speech. God wasn't spending time giving the Israelites science lessons.
With our current understanding of the solar system, the Earth rotates on it's axis and revolves around the Sun, hence the Sun could not simply stop in the sky, although from an earth-bound reference frame, that could be visualized if in fact the Earth stopped rotating, which would be more accurate.
Therefore, the statement that the Sun stopped in the sky would be consistent with the beliefs of that time period where the Earth was believed to be the center of the Universe and the Sun revolved around it.
In that case, the writers of the bible believed in such, hence they wrote that into the bible as opposed to what should have been written IF they were in fact gods words. God would certainly have known that the Earth was NOT the center of the universe and the Sun DIDN'T revolve around it.
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M*W: The "four corners of the earth" refer to the four directions: North-South-East-West
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M*W: The "four corners of the earth" refer to the four directions: North-South-East-West
What, no arguments ? lol
Maybe I misread your post, was it intended to be sarcastic or something ?
In this passage, they just assume the bottom of the ocean is like the land, not a radical notion.“ There are mountains on the bottom of the ocean floor
(Jonah 2:5-6).
Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep trenches in the depths of the sea. ”
In this passage, they just assume that's where the water in the ocean comes from.“ Oceans contain springs (Job 38:16).
The ocean is very deep. Almost all the ocean floor is in total darkness and the pressure there is enormous. It would have been impossible for Job to have explored the "springs of the sea." Until recently, it was thought that oceans were fed only by rivers and rain. Yet in the 1970s, with the help of deep diving research submarines that were constructed to withstand 6,000 pounds-per-square-inch pressure, oceanographers discovered springs on the ocean floors! ”
This one is more interesting, but still consistent with the state of astronomical knowledge at the time, which we tend to underestimate.“ The earth free-floats in space (Job 26:7), affected only by gravity. While other sources declared the earth sat on the back of an elephant or turtle, or was held up by Atlas, the Bible alone states what we now know to be true – “He hangs the earth on nothing.” ”
I'm not going to claim that the Israelites were rocket scientists but can you not see that it is easier to write that the "Sun stopped" then to say "the earth stopped rotating and it gave the impression that the Sun stopped".
This was written as it was experienced, simply.
Did the Israelites know what we know now?
Is the Bible an Astrophysics book? No.
Does that make the Bible meaningless? No.
That is all I'm trying to explain.