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[A Theist]

I won't try and add to what's already been pointed out by the others. I'm going to try as best I can to answer Vulcan's clarification response, (post #53), of chimp's question.

If we're going back to people who lived 4 to 6 thousand years ago, (as Vulcan stated), then we're talking about people who were just entering the Copper Age and who only had an understanding of the world around them for their time and region. They knew nothing of far away continents and of the people who lived there. They couldn't fathom that technology would eventually evolve from the Copper Age to the Space Age. Their technology, and their knowledge and understanding of a much larger world was still evolving and developing. God gave all the gift of free will. Along with that came curiosity and the desire to explore and to discover new things, to find out for themselves. Technology and discovery has always been evolving and developing gradually over time. So, did God only know what the writers of the Bible knew, or was God communicating to the writers of the Bible in terms that they understood for their time?....as well, weren't the Biblical prophets only describing their visions of future events in terms that they understood for their day?

Also,  Vulcan responded that 'God could have dropped some hints about the water cycle and the periodic table of elements, but He didn't'.....But God did actually reveal a few interesting things that modern science seems to support....

The Genesis account of the creation of Earth is strikingly similar to some scientific theories on its formation...

Genesis 1: 1-2, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; 

Compare that verse to the scientific theories on its formation...that the solar system began as a cloud of dust and gas, "without form and void"

https://www.space.com/19175-how-was-earth-formed.html

http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/200...-Void.aspx

The Biblical account for the creation of man in Genesis 2:7, 

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground

We are literally the dust of the ground, composed of the same material as the Earth

Earth's composition
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/5...h-made-of-

The composition of the human body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositio...human_body

I find this to be a pretty amazing accounting from the writer who authored the Book Of Genesis 3,400 years ago. 


So to sum up. To the question, "Why does God appear to know only what the writers of the Bible knew?" It wasn't that God only knew what the writers of the Bible knew. It was simply that God communicated with them in terms that they understood for their time. Albeit, the simple message of reconciliation of humankind to God and what He expects transcends generational barriers.

Edited: for better clarity.