Historical Standpoint
October 21, 2015 at 10:29 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2015 at 10:41 am by Blondie.)
Not sure what to call this. I do have a question about the Bible, but it is more on a historical view and not debating on God and so on. Let's leave magic and so on out of it. Before we go any further, please take me seriously. This is a question I have from a historical view of when it was written and was proven by scientists when we could see it for ourselves. I know this is reasoning among creationists to dispute science, etc which is not my point or what I am trying to accomplish here. Being raised in church, this is a serious question I am asking among this community. I am asking for serious thoughts.
https://truthbehindreality.wordpress.com...-real-old/
The introduction ends by saying, “The unknown author was probably an Israelite writing sometime between 1500 and 500 B.C.”
Job 26:10
He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,[size=small] At the boundary of light and darkness.
This could be an indication that the world was round before any proof by scientists even among the earliest ones.
Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
This could also be taken as the expansion of the universe.
http://history.stackexchange.com/questio...fore-cyrus
The OT Prophet Isaiah lived Isaiah in the 8th-century BC. Cyrus, the Emperor of Persia, lived well over one hundred years later: Cyrus (580-529 BC) was the first Achaemenid Emperor
Isaiah 40:22
He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Another indication that the earth was round before any proof.
Now take out the point of magic, etc. My question is how could people have known this when these two books were written, if we did not have the start of science around 1589 AD starting with Galileo Galilei? How would this be possible?
https://truthbehindreality.wordpress.com...-real-old/
The introduction ends by saying, “The unknown author was probably an Israelite writing sometime between 1500 and 500 B.C.”
Job 26:10
He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,[size=small] At the boundary of light and darkness.
This could be an indication that the world was round before any proof by scientists even among the earliest ones.
Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
This could also be taken as the expansion of the universe.
http://history.stackexchange.com/questio...fore-cyrus
The OT Prophet Isaiah lived Isaiah in the 8th-century BC. Cyrus, the Emperor of Persia, lived well over one hundred years later: Cyrus (580-529 BC) was the first Achaemenid Emperor
Isaiah 40:22
He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Another indication that the earth was round before any proof.
Now take out the point of magic, etc. My question is how could people have known this when these two books were written, if we did not have the start of science around 1589 AD starting with Galileo Galilei? How would this be possible?
