God's challenge to the skeptics and it looks like they have no answer??

Question

How did the apostle John foresee the advent of satellite technology back in the first century? (See Revelation 11:9)
How did the apostle Paul know, some 2,000 years before the AIDS epidemic, that homosexual behavior would in time produce death within the bodies of those who practice it? (See Romans 1:27, 32)
How was the prophet Zechariah, hundreds of years before the time of Christ, able to describe a future military attack involving what can only be nuclear weapons (See Zechariah 14:12)? And how did Jesus know that man would one day have the ability to destroy the whole world? (See Matthew 24:22)
How did Isaiah know some 2,500 years before the time of Columbus that the earth is a circle? (See Isaiah 40:22)
How did Job know, thousands of years before the time of Christ, that the moon does not give off its own light? (See Job 25:5)
How did Job know back then that God "hangs the earth upon nothing," a perfect description of gravity? (See Job 26:7)
Well?

Answer 1

Back for more punishment I see. To say the very least you are stretching the truth,

Answer 2

Rev 11:9 "And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves."

That's a prediction of satellite technology????

Romans 1:32 "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

Only says that wicked people are worthy of death in the eyes of God, not that God's actually gonna kill them. Certainly doesn't mention anything about AIDS (which is now more prevalent in heterosexuals than homosexuals).

Zechariah 14:12 "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth."

Specifically mentions a plague. One that consumes flesh, eyes and tongues. Doesn't sound even vaguely like a nuclear attack to me.

Matthew 24:22 "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."

I don't see anything specific about destroying the whole world there.

Isaiah 40:22 "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in"

OK, at least this one does mention the circle of the earth. However the Phoenicians, and possibly even the Egyptians knew the Earth was a sphere long before even the Old Testament was written. Just because Dark Ages Europe forgot it, doesn't mean it wasn't known before.

Job 25:5 "Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight."

It doesn't say that the moon isn't producing its own light. It says that the moon doesn't shine at all. Which is patently false. Unless it happened to be a new moon that night.

Job 26:7 "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."

I'm not sure I'd call that a 'perfect description of gravity', but at least it's kind of poetic.

If that's the best evidence you can come up with for the scientific validity of the Bible, then it's pretty sad when your average children's 'Science is Fun' book has more facts and fewer errors.

Answer 3

Is there a picture of you in the dictionary next to the word "eisigesis"?

The Earth is not a circular disk. It is a sphere.

The moon is obviously indirectly lit. The dark side was clearly visible to people who lived before the discovery of electricity, and the light side always faced the sun.

"Hanging the Earth upon nothing" is clearly a speculation about how far down the roots of the Earth can go. Unaware of the concept of gravity, the author of Job obviously realized that we can't know why everything doesn't just keep sinking forever. He still thought it "hung". It does no such thing.

Nuclear weapons are just the latest thing that goes bang or boom. In the Middle Ages it was cannons. People like to write about their enemies getting hurt by burning and blasting.

Romans 1 apparently condemns homosexual acts and says that those (and a laundry list of other depravities) "deserve" death, but it says nothing whatsover about disease.

And what does seeing dead bodies have to do with satellites? You can't be serious! This is all gibbering hokum!

But please, don't give up. This is really entertaining.

Answer 4

None of them did.
Revelation 11:9 "For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb." What part of this has to do with satellite technology?
Romans 1:27, 32 have nothing to do with foretelling what is to come.

As for Job knowing about the Moon not giving off it's own light, the ancient Greeks knew about it before Job did. The ancient Greeks also figured out the world was round long before Isaiah.

"Hanging upon nothing" is not a perfect description of gravity. In fact, it is blatantly wrong. Gravity is an attraction of mass. If it's hanging, as you describe, "something" has to be pulling it down. Nothing is.

I'm not looking up all these "predictions", but all prophecies, including the Bible's, are so vague they can sound like anything.

Answer 5

1. He didn't.
2. He didn't. Also note that AIDS is in no way limited to homosexuals.
3. He wasn't.
4. He didn't.
5. The Earth isn't a circle. It's a sphere, and this was pointed out before the Bible was written.
6. He probably didn't, but he had all the information that cleverer people needed to demonstrate that fact scientifically.
7. That's a terrible description of gravity.

I used short answers, since after looking up your references and seeing the absurd conclusions you've made I sincerely doubt whether you're capable of understanding the longer explanations given by other answerers.

Answer 6

Ezekiel mentioned it a thousand years before.

Leviticus mentioned it more than a thousand years before.

Ezekiel talked about the possibility and many others did a few thousand years before as well as the Sumerian Texts.

The Sumerian texts talked about it 3000 years before Jesus.

People have known the world was a circle for thousands of years. The Greeks knew about atom and molecules 1000 years before Jesus.

Cultures by the thousands have known about the moon.

Cultures around the world knew and understood gravity millennia ago.

For you - there was a super nova that went off in the dark ages and was visable day and night for months. It was recorded and written about everywhere in the world except for where the christian world existed. Why did they not see it.

The ancien Greeks knew about Pluto yet it wasn´t - discovered - until 1926.

The Dogon tribe in africa worships the Dog star, and has for centuries, which cannot be seen except by telescope and was not discovered until the 1950´s.

Answer 7

The same way modern day psychics are able to tell so much about people they've never met: vague, non-committal guesses.

Note that none of the prophets chose to use the same concrete wording you did. In fact, most of these prophecies could be interpreted in a number of ways.

Also note that Isaiah knew the Earth was round before Columbus discovered the Americas because at the time the Earth's shape was already common knowledge. Columbus knew before setting sail what shape the Earth was. His only mistake was believing it to be significantly smaller than it actually is. In fact, his purpose in sailing in the first place was to locate a fast trade route to East Asia. He just didn't know there was a continent in the way.

Answer 8

Rev 11:9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

That has nothing to do with satelite technology. SO you are wrong and a liar.

Answer 9

The Earth is not a circle, it's a sphere.

Hindu legends talk about what appear to be nuclear missles and aircraft, in the Mahabharatta. Could they be right too?

Answer 10

Rev 11:9 Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

So what exactly about this seems to suggest satellite technology? You are just making stuff up now.

Answer 11

It's easy to interpret writings from the past in a way to suit our needs. Think about Nostrodamus. Could he predict the future? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. The bottom line on any prophesy that we evaluate in hindsight is that we need to be sure we are interpreting it the right way. Homosexuals aren't the only ones who die of AIDS - children and heterosexual women do as well. Please don't interpret the Bible to suit your own agenda as so many "churches" do.