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The shape of the earth -- Isaiah
40:22 says, "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth." This
passage, as well
as others, show that the earth is round and that its roundness
affects day and night. How did the ancient Bible writers know that
the earth was round? How did Luke know how to write that day and
night occur on the earth simultaneously? These statements are beyond
the understanding of the writers -- unless the writers were
guided by a force wiser and more educated in the sciences.
The suspension of the earth -- Job
26:7 says, "He stretches out the north over empty space; he
hangs the earth on nothing." The ancient Greeks and
Romans were the most advanced peoples of their time. Yet they
believed that the earth was held in place by poles or by the neck of
Atlas. others believed that Atlas had the world on his shoulders.
Some said that the earth floated on water, and should one go too far
out on the sea, he would surely perish. Every schoolchild knows that
until the days of Columbus and Magellan in the 15th and 16th
centuries, when man sailed around the earth, that man had not
discovered that the earth touches nothing -- that nothing visible
holds it in place. It was then that the statement in Job could be
understood. The ancient book of Job is scientifically accurate. Job
couldn't have known these things, so God must have directed Job what
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