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Originally Posted by Aquila
The point is that while the ancients didn't understand everything God was revealing to them in his Word... the Word doesn't contradict what we have found cosmologically. We can argue that the ancients believed this or believed that... all that shows is that their INTERPRETATION was wrong. The Word itself appears to support what has been found.
There is a barrier that protects our world - Firmament
There is water above the firmament - Interstellar Clouds
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Can you show me one of these watery Interstellar Clouds? Show me one. And then describe just how this "water" is being held back from flooding the earth by ... any kind of whatever?
There is no solid barrier that protects our world. There is a relatively thin layer of gases trapped near the earth's surface that filters out harmful radiation - much of the time. Place a dime on a basketball. That's the thickness of our atmosphere in relation to the earth.
A literal application of "the Word" (in
Genesis 1 - 11) will give you a false cosmology. There is no solid firmament holding back a watery abyss in the sky. There never was such a thing.
However the truths that God wanted to communicate to the ancients were real and are still true for us today. God did create the heavens and the earth, etc.
But show me one of those watery interstellar clouds that threatens to flood our planet if not for the intervention of the firmament.
*** I have read but not engaged in the other discussion concerning the perceived immorality of the OT commands to kill and such. The cosmology issue does intersect with this as NotForSale has shown when he brought it up. But to understand the differences in the moral outlook I think it's helpful if we understand first that the ancients had a completely different worldview - literally. Their world was not the one that the Age of Discovery found to exist.
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