If the Bible is true, why doesn't NASA use the Bible to navigate missions?

Question

The Bible says that the 'World' is stationary, immovable, and the sun and moon are lights in the sky that will come crashing to the ground in the final days.

So why doesn't NASA use this information? Or would that just lead to more dead astronauts when they miss the Space Station, miscalculate the reentry velocity and splat themselves all over the atmosphere?

Funny how Christians criticize science, but when it actually matters, no one, and I mean NO ONE actually follows the Bible's world view instead of the accepted scientific model.

Well, if they do, they're the people we hear about on the nightly news.

A circle is not a sphere.

A fixed and stationary earth, set on pillars is what the Bible describes, and it uses those terms.

Stars are described as falling from the sky to the ground. Not meteors, but stars.

The Earth predates the sun and all other extraterrestrial entities, according to the Bible. This simply is not true, and no legitimate scientist would say otherwise.

If the Bible were taken literally, the human race would not be able to launch a probe to the ends of the solar system.

Funny how most of the Bible has been completely tossed out, and each year, more and more of this fascinating, indispensable book makes the transition from actual to metaphorical.

Soon there will be nothing left of it at all.

Answer 1

The tone of your post is disturbing to me. Christianity and the sciences mix well toether.

Some Bible critics have claimed that Revelation 7:1 assumes a flat earth since the verse refers to angels standing at the "four corners" of the earth. Actually, the reference is to the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west. Similar terminology is often used today when we speak of the sun's rising and setting, even though the earth, not the sun, is doing the moving. Bible writers used the "language of appearance," just as people always have. Without it, the intended message would be awkward at best and probably not understood clearly.

In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon.

A literal translation of Job 26:10 is "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end." A spherical earth is also described in Isaiah 40:21-22 - "the circle of the earth."

Proverbs 8:27 also suggests a round earth by use of the word circle (e.g., New King James Bible and New American Standard Bible). If you are overlooking the ocean, the horizon appears as a circle. This circle on the horizon is described in Job 26:10. The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth. Yet here it is recorded in Job, ages before the Greeks discovered it. Job 26:10 indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe.

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.

The Bible is not a science book.

Christians don't criticize science, they use it just like you do.

Answer 2

Believe it or not, there are some Christians out there that believe that the bible is capable of being figurative. A lot of things in the bible are figurative, just as a lot are literal.

The first four books of the new testament, for instance, are based on differing viewpoints from four different people. The message is basically the same, but the wording is diffferent. The books complement each other, but sometimes seem to contradict each other.

Jesus himself said that people have to often hear things in parables to understand them, because they aren't yet capable of full understanding. How many people back in that time would have understood to physical nature of the universe?

Not all Christians criticize science. I am a Christian, and I embrace science. I think science complements God, rather than denies him. Science helps us gain a better understanding of God and his creations.

Answer 3

What you have read and heard is a half-truth, and half truths can be more deceptive than outright lies. The sabbath was a day of required rest. Sunday was adopted by the early church as a day of corporate worship and prayers, according to Christian liberty. The Jewish Christians, who continued keeping the law, would have been "resting" on the sabbath and available for corporate worship the next day, which they saw as having significance in relation to Christ's resurrection. The early church never assigned any day sacredness to Sunday. Christians are free to worship God whenever and wherever they so desire, unlike the requirements found in the old covenant, where corporate worship could only be done at the temple at Jerusalem. All this deception is designed to bring you under the bondage of the old covenant, or more accurately, their version and interpretation of the "law" which in fact has very little in common with the old covenant as a whole. .

Answer 4

Units. The Bible doesn't use English or metric units. And we all know what happened with the Mars rover when the scientists mixed up feet and meters.

The units could probably be converted but it was just as easy just to do all the work over again.

Answer 5

Apparently, it depends upon your interpretation of the bible. Most interpret it however the heck they want so long as it justifies them. Some evangelists will probably come up with some excuse regarding the Holy Spirit and it's relation to NASA...

Answer 6

For the same reason that Boeing does not use Peter Pan books to design the wings of the 787.
Fairy tales are one thing, science and technology another.

Answer 7

Suggesting that NASA use the Bible to navigate missions is like suggesting that a pastor prepare his/her sermon using an auto mechanic's guide.

Actually, the latter can be done, but it would have to be done very craftily, or very inspired.

Answer 8

The Bible never says the things you've said. Clearly you have misinterpreted it.

Answer 9

Do you believe everything you see on TV? God I hope not! Same goes for the bible.

Answer 10

A valid point if ever I've heard one.