(July 4, 2021 at 6:32 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote:(June 21, 2021 at 4:18 pm)dudeabides Wrote: If the bible isn't true and I believe it's not, it has some historicity to it but not true. My question is this, how did those goat herders in the desert know the center of the earth was hot? I know it's not Hell but they believed it was and it is the hottest place around in the center of the earth.
A good question, and one akin to many - like how Job knew and declared between approximately 1635 – 1572 B.C. (the Book of Job historically occurring after the events in Genesis) - that GOD "...stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing." - Job 26:7 (while Pythagoras was the first to propose a round Earth around 500 B.C. and Aristotle concluding the Earth is a sphere around 350 B.C.; talk much less of the later discovery that the Earth actually orbits the Sun).
The "historicity" of the Holy Bible is inextricably linked to the irrefutable prophecies therein. Also, it is in fact many things good – history, the law, prophecy… the saving grace and power of GOD from detrimental judgment… “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” - Romans 10:17
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“…knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” - 2 Peter 1:20-21
Job was written much later than that. It was written sometime between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE with the most likely time in the 6th.
By that time, the understanding that the Earth is spherical was well distributed and the idea that it 'hung' on nothing was discussed.
But, of course, the Earth does NOT 'hang' at all. It moves.
Also, the idea that the sky was a dome, sphere, or tend spread out around the sperical Earth was the standard at the time. of course, that is also wrong.
