Scientific ACCURACIES in the Bible

[libalchris]

Not many I know, and it sounds like an oxymoron, but apparently there are some.

Apparently it refers to the Earth as a "circle" (Hebrew word for that), tells people to wash their hands (indicating an awareness of infection), and a few other things. Definitely good stuff to look into, there are quite a few youtube videos and articles about this online but I can try to find more if anyone wants!

So erm, thoughts?

Mike

Isaiah uses the Hebrew word for ball at one point in the book, which would have been much more suiting if he was referring to earth as a sphere (never mind the fact that it apparently didn't convince anyone at that time who believed Isaiah that the earth was spherical.) The word Isaiah uses is used one other time in the old testament (Proverbs 8:27) and refers to a flat disk.

EDIT:

I'll try to address the points in the link;

1) Like Tegh posted, there are 2 hebrew words for circle, one meaning circle one meaning sphere. In this case, the word meaning circle is used. Even if the word meaning sphere was used, it would still be wrong, as the actual shape of the Earth is an oblate spheroid. I'd expect a "close enough for the time" response for this point, but seeming as christians believe their book is handed down from god, who is all-knowing, they should be able to get it correct.

Oh you beat me to it lol. Remember to note that Isaiah did use the word for ball as the word for ball at another place in Isaiah. So it's not as though the word wasn't familiar to him. And, as I said earlier in this post, the word he used was used at another place in the old testament as a flat circle.

This is what Hebrews believed with respect to cosmology and when you look at it and read how the bible describes the earth it fits quite well: