ALTER2EGO -to- EVERYONE:

Unlike the bibles of other religions, there is EVIDENCE the Judeo-Christian Bible was divinely inspired by Jehovah. Not only does it contain almost 2,000 accurately fulfilled prophesies, but Bible writers had special information that was not discovered by scientists and explorers until centuries later. Below are two such examples.

1. The Prophet Isaiah gave a viewpoint description of how earth appears from outer space and did it at a time in history when humans were earthbound. Notice below.

"There is One who is dwelling above the CIRCLE of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gaze, who spread them out like a tent in which to dwell," (Isaiah 40:22)

Isaiah's viewpoint description--of a circular earth, when viewed from outer space--was not confirmed or proven until the 20th century, when astronauts were able to view earth from space. In effect, Isaiah, who was earthbound at the time of his writing, gave a viewpoint description that was almost 3,000 years ahead of his time.


2. Similarly, it was not until 1687 that Isaac Newton published his theory that gravitational forces are the explanation behind the earth's stability. More than 3,000 years before Newton's existence, under divine inspiration, Moses wrote the viewpoint description that, when viewed from outer space, earth appears to be hanging upon nothing (indicating invisible gravity), as follows:

"He [Jehovah God] is stretching out the north over the empty place, HANGING THE EARTH UPON NOTHING;" (Job 26:7)]


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. How could Isaiah have known that the earth is circular when viewed from outerspace, considering that the writing of the book of Isaiah was completed in 732 B.C.E. —more than 2,700 years BEFORE astronauts in the 20th century confirmed that earth appears like a circle when viewed from outer space?

2. How did Moses know that the earth appears to hang upon nothing, indicating invisible gravity, considering that the book of Job was completed in 1473 B.C.E. and it wasn't until 1687 AD/CE that Isaac Newton published his theory about gravitational forces—3,160 years AFTER Moses wrote that the earth hangs in space with no visible means of support?
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...s/blnewton.htm

3. Where did Isaiah and Moses get this information?


Alter2Ego

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"That people may know that you, whose name is JEHOVAH, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." ~ Psalms 83:18

Haven’t you posted this nonsense before? I certainly recall debunking it but maybe it was someone else. Anyway…

The earth is NOT circular. The prevailing view among people living in the Middle East in the era when the Bible was written was that the earth was a disc with a dome on top (the sky). Therefore the Bible speaking of the circle of the earth is perfectly consistent with the prevailing thought regarding the shape of the earth. The Bible agrees with the Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, etc, on the shape of the earth. Of course that makes sense if the Bible is a compilation of legends, myths and stories developed by one particular group of people living in the Middle East. It is far less consistent that an omnipotent deity would mistakenly talk about the circle of the earth since it is not a circle as the people in that area of the world believed.

Of course, the spherical shape of the earth was well known long before any astronauts left the earth, and in fact it was known not too long after the Old Testament was written and by people living not far away. By the fourth century BCE, the Greeks had correctly deduced the shape of the earth, and not long after, they provided a reasonably accurate measurement of the circumference of the earth. From that point on, nobody seriously doubted that the earth is spherical (not a disc) and we recognized the Biblical language as simply poetic, not as scientific fact.