2006-08-11 11:22:43 · 6 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
2000yrs ago the bible said the earth was flat and rainbows where a sign from god Science has since proved this wrong I.e rainbows are caused by light refracting of raindrops
, oh how you change to suit
2006-08-11 11:30:59 · update #1
As the gaps narrow, the God of the Gaps gets squished.
2006-08-11 11:32:16 · answer #1 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible noted that the earth is a sphere and sits on "nothing" more than 2800 years ago!
Isaiah 40:22
It is [God] who sits* above the sphere** of the earth
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
How far has our sins been removed from us when we ask God to forgive us? Note the psalm below would make it finite if the circle of the earth were flat. If it is sperical with a pole, then east and west are directional with no end.
Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Matthew 24:40-44 speak of the gathering of the church that will take place in one single event. Notice that there are three differnet periods of time, evening, morning, afternoon. This is only possible with a sperical earth with inhabitants in every hemisphere.
The Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth.
Eratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate."
As for rainbows, God set it up as a sign and a promise. He did not have to explain HOW He did it. Why should He? To satisfy your puny opinion? You could not even see that the Bible showed the earth to be a sphere!
2006-08-11 18:40:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mmmm, it's still out there. But it's no longer scientifically accepted as it might have been 5 hundred years ago. I think that the creation vs. evolution debate is a remnant of that thinking. As are 'medical miracles'.
2006-08-11 18:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so...god of gaps has turned out being the wrong answer to things like rain and thunder...it's history of being wrong is a good enough reason to stop viewing it as a valid answer.
2006-08-11 18:27:22 · answer #4 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Do you think the search for knowledge no longer requires a primitive it must be god to fill in the gaps?"
What does that mean?
TFTP
2006-08-11 18:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
just give up, moron boy.
2006-08-11 18:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋