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The Heavens And Earth Series
Contributed by Kelvin Mckisic on Jun 25, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: The Bible says that God reveals Himself in His creation, and that is so true when we really look carefully at Bible Science. Here we take a look at the heavens and earth
Bible Science
Before I was a Christian, I banked my life on science, and would scoff at anyone foolish enough to believe in that book written by man. I thought I had all the answers I needed in my technical books, and the Bible was not one of them. But like many people who scoff at the Bible, have never read it. Now I have to say that God converted me before I even read the Bible, but after that I started reading it…and I was blown away by what the Bible had to say about science, a book written thousands of years ago. After giving the Bible a thorough examination I realized that only a God could know the things written in that book. So, today I want to glorify God by giving you some Bible science.
The Heavens and Earth
Let’s look at some of the marvelous things God said about our heavens and earth.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.
Know that this book was written so 2500 years ago, and it claimed that there are billions of stars ("host of heaven" is the biblical term for the stars). When it made this statement, no one knew how vast the numbers of stars were as only about 1,100 were observable at any given time. Now we know that there are billions of stars, and that they cannot be numbered.
Other passages in the Bible agree with that of Jeremiah, such as the book of Genesis and Hebrews. Now here’s the kicker, Genesis was written some 4500 years ago. Because of the sun’s movement, which I will discuss in a moment, it makes it impossible to count the stars, just as God said. It is claimed that there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. If stars were counted around the clock at one star per second, then it would take over 3000 years just to count these that we know of. Add to this the fact that there are as many as 100 billion galaxies. However, there were many scholars prior to Galileo who believed that the stars could be counted, and several attempts were made to do so. Many of these counts arrived at around 1000 stars. Examples of Scientific Accuracy in the Bible By David Pyles)
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.
Written 3500 years ago, the Bible claimed that the earth freely floated in space. Science, in early times then thought that the earth sat on a large animal; which was a good working theory because they also thought that the earth was flat; more on the flat earth theory a little later. We now know that the earth indeed free floats in space. The reason the earth free floats in its place aligned with the other planets science still has little understanding of.
Their line has gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoices like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Bible critics have scoffed at these verses, saying that they teach that the sun revolves around the earth. Science told them that the sun was stationary. Then they discovered that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through the heavens and has a "circuit" just as the Bible says. It is estimated that its circuit is so large, it would take 200 million years to complete one orbit. This is the reason why the stars are uncountable because we are like in a moving vehicle never seeing some of these stars again.
Physical Science
Now, let’s turn our attention to how all things hold together. when God said “let there be light” He created atoms and the energies that hold it all together.
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Written 2000 years ago, and claims that all creation is made of invisible material. Science then was ignorant of the subject. We now know that the entire creation is made of invisible elements called "atoms." Atoms are then made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. To further try to understand the creation of God, science now believe that protons and neutrons are made up of another element called a quark. Quarks are at this point more of a theory to understand the invisible things God created everything with. But how do these atoms hold together because they too are spinning at an atomic level. God’s wonderful creation is held together by an unknown force, and science is breaking its neck to understand how, but God has already said that it does.
