The Bible and the Earth in Space
The Earth and Space
Job 26:10 He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters
Proverbs 8:27 When he drew a circle on the face of the deep
Isaiah 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth and its inhabitants (people) are like grasshoppers.
Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing.
Isaiah was written circa 850 BC. Job is believed to have been written circa 2,000 BC. Proverbs was written by Solomon circa 950 BC.
These verses, and others in the Bible, reveal important scientific facts about our planet and it‘s relation to space. These facts were not verified by western science until after 1500 AD. These verses also totally explode the persistent human myth that the earth was shaped like a tabletop and held up by a mythical Atlas.
Some of the accurate scientific facts revealed are:
1. The earth is round (circular in profile)
2. The earth is located in space (nothingness) and is not suspended with any physical support
3. The size of the earth is great and people are relatively small
4. Space is relatively empty
5. Gravity can be inferred by a spherical earth shape.
Columbus read these verses. Then he stood on the docks and observed that ship’s sails were the last thing to disappear over the horizon. He observed sails as the final visible part of the ship when the ship’s direction was north, south or west. The only answer that made sense was that the earth was sperical in shape. The accepted scientific belief, since the time of the ancient Greeks, was that the earth was flat. Columbus read the Bible, used his eyes and brain and knew the “scientists” were wrong. The rest is history. What had been accepted as science for 2,000 years was now verified as mythology.
It would be the 1800's before western science began to acknowledge the reality of gravity. And it would be the early 1900's before the precise location of the earth could be calculated.
The Earth's position in space, at any point in time, is the result of several vectors of force. Those vectors are gravitational attraction from the Sun, moon and other planets and other forces such as centripetal force. None of these forces are visible and none are concrete but they are very real.
The Bible beat science to the truth by a few thousand years. This is another example of the Bible as a reliable book of science and also an example of Biblical Prophecy which has been verified by western science.
So, how exactly did Isaiah, Solomon and a sheepherder from 4,000 years ago manage to get the science right? Lucky guess? Coincidence? Or maybe, just maybe, divine inspiration?
