How did Joshua and Yahweh make the sun stand still without all the continents and oceans being destroyed?

Question

Joshua 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.

That's quite an amazing act of astronomical interference. How did god stop the earth from rotating and the moon to also stop rotating around the earth?
What's really 'amazing' about this act is that if it were to actually happen, all life on earth would be destroyed. Why didn't that happen in biblical times? Oh, I know, you're just going to say 'god did it'.

Padre Guido - I wish it were, but sadly, their answers very rarely are funny.

Answer 1

if God could create the heaven and earth im sure He could make the sun stand still with no ill effects ...

Answer 2

There is a story of a Yale astronomer who found that the earth was twenty-four hours out of schedule:

Another professor at Yale, Dr. Totten, suggested the astronomer read the Bible starting at the beginning and going as far as necessary, to see if the Bible could account for the missing time. When he came to the account of the long day of Joshua, the astronomer rechecked the figures and found that at the time of Joshua there were only twenty-three hours and twenty minutes lost. His skepticism justified, he decided that the Bible was not the Word of God because there was a mistake by forty minutes.

Professor Totten showed him that the Bible account does not say twenty-four hours, but rather about the space of a whole day. On reading farther the astronomer found that God, through the prophet Isaiah and in answer to Hezekiahs prayer, promised to add fifteen years to his life (II Kings 20:1-11; Isaiah 38:1-21). To confirm this promise, the shadow of the sundial was turned back ten degrees. Ten degrees on a sundial is forty minutes on the face of a clock. When he found his day of missing time accounted for in the Bible, the astronomer bowed his head in worship of its Author, saying, "Lord, I believe!" (Harry Rimmer, The Harmony of Science and Scripture, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1936, p. 33).

Answer 3

Scientifically speaking, the solar is "nevertheless" contained in the experience the earth rotates around the solar, no longer that the solar rotates around the earth. The activities defined in Joshua teach that there became a conception the solar remained nevertheless contained in the heavens. So it sounds like the earth stopped rotating on its axis. innovations boggling! yet, as others have spoke of, it wasn't Joshua who did some thing - it became the author of the universe who wrought the miracle. Edit: i love the way a chum places it - also Scythian.

Answer 4

Um, because it didn't happen.
I wish I could be like Father G and think it's going to be funny, but it's just another reason for me to feel sorry for these people.

Answer 5

Hey genius. He's God and He created everything you spoke of. You don't think he can suspend natural laws to make a point?

Answer 6

Your same logic is used by Fatima skeptics, claiming that despite the testimonies of 70,000 people, because the event is scientifically impossible it is thus impossible. This logic is good, because scientifically impossible=impossible, however, that is the exact essence of a miracle.

Answer 7

Easy - instead of stopping the spinning earth, God 'sped up' the play speed of the battle.

Answer 8

This is going to be funny.

But sad at the same time.

Or is pathetic a better word for it.

Answer 9

I would certainly hope a Supreme Being could alter physical laws, considering it would be outside of physical laws.