Jos 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
I was reading the question and answer about God stopping time so Joshua could finish the battle. The atheists won't believe unless it is explainable in their finite terms so they can understand it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060809184617AAM7Cfx
How many believe that God could have stopped not only the earth, but the entire universe, like frozen in time while Joshua fought. Is this too big a thing for our God or is he able to do it?? Atheists always compare God to a super man, and think that they can explain everything HE does in human terms..
Anyway the root of the question is can he do it or can't he??? What do you think??
2006-08-14 11:46:32 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that.
God is bigger than mountains. Many people - including many Christians - often focus on the mountain rather than God. If you turn your eyes towards God and how great and powerful He is, the mountain will seem like an anthill and such a miracle as this is no longer so impossible...
Also, if we could understand God and how He does things, He wouldn't be God and we wouldn't need Him. We're human and incredibly limited in many aspects. We might never have the capability to explain such a thing, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
2006-08-14 11:52:48 · answer #1 · answered by amberaewmu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that God, having had much experience in creating worlds and solar systems, would not have any trouble pushing the "pause" button, so to speak, on one very small solar system (ours, I mean). Something similar also happened again when Jesus Christ was born, that there was a day and a night and a day - without darkness - as if time had stood still, but this time it was related to the appearance of a new star, and when the sun went down it did not look like night time, which astonished the non-believers but made the true believers grateful. That is also recorded in the Book of Mormon. I think the sign in Joshua's time was not only a sign to the forgetful Israelites of who God was, but it was also a sign to those in Jesus' time of who the Jehovah of the Old Testament was, and who the source of divine power was. Have a happy day! Cool question, by the way.
2006-08-14 12:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it was joshua who stopped the sun. Joshua10:12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel:"sun stand still over Gibeon..... Then in Joshua 10:14 And there has been no day like that, before of after that the Lord heeded the voice of a man,... Yes God does what ever He sees fit!
2006-08-14 12:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by marie167 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's something odd about that: in the Western hemisphere the Inca, Maya and Pawnee [if I remember from Catlin] all have legends about a day with no sunrise. Further, the Greek myth of Phaeton may reflect a memory of some astronomical event where the sun acted abnormally and day was extended.
If it were not something confirmed by radically removed civilizations you might have a stronger point.
2006-08-14 11:57:45 · answer #4 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about time, but I believe He did freeze the rotation of the earth etc. to give Joshua time to finish the battle. And I'm open to the idea that he did freeze time except for that battlefield. He can do as He pleases.
2006-08-14 11:56:53 · answer #5 · answered by Crusader1189 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're utilising clinical and mathematical theory in addressing a non secular existential question. those theories have not been waiting to debunk the existence of God as of yet, even with the fact that it incredibly is been tried for hundreds of years. Why proceed in this street to nowhere? Believing in God is a controversy of religion, philosophical applications to this question is the only way you could actually come even on the component of resolving the subject surrounding Creationism. God bless.
2016-12-11 08:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally believe that it happened. God has the same power today as when he put the animals on the earth, created the flood & the rainbow to promise that He wouldn't do it again, and I believe that His power is strong enought to have stopped the sun in its orbit for whatever period of time suited His purpose.
2006-08-14 11:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by Shopgirl9337 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he can and did. There is a very interesting secular study out on this very thing, which is why it is not used as a basis of biblical wrong or falsity.
The secular study went backwards and actually proved that there is missing time as we know it. I wish I could remember the name of the study, but cannot. It shouldnt be difficult to look up and find if you put in the right searchwords.
2006-08-14 11:52:29 · answer #8 · answered by cindy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Holy Bible!
If I'm not mistaken...didn't God also help Joshua by throwing hailstones down from Heaven? Yes...Joshua 10:11 As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
GOD ROCKS!!! (No pun intended). LOL
2006-08-14 11:50:35 · answer #9 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I rather suspect that that particular part of Joshua is a bit of tall-tale telling slipped into the Bible, just as the story of Noah was exaggerated.
2006-08-14 11:59:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋