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Christians: Do you think God is happy with your Compromising to please the World?
You twist and turn and call scriptures 'figurative' based not on the text itself, but on the desire to please the opinions of men peddling pseudoscience..
Do you think God finds this pleasing?
What will you do when the theories your are twisting the Scripture to conform to expire and are replaced with new theories?
6 Answers
- ?Lv 57 years agoFavorite Answer
I think He must be very disappointed, a lot of so called Christians accept lots of things that are not Biblical simply because it doesn't fit in with the current world view, and any Christian that speaks out about it is labelled a "fundie"
- Brigalow BlokeLv 77 years ago
Eventually the Roman Catholic church had to accept the idea that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe.
The reason that they did was that they had genuine scholars familiar with mathematics who checked the theories of Kepler, Galileo and Newton against the observed facts and found that they accorded with those facts.
I do not see any evidence of such genuine scholars within the Protestant fundamentalists. What I see are lie factories staffed by fake scientists and people with qualifications who have sold out to lies for cash in hand. Everyone who has made themselves familiar with the matter knows this, which includes atheists, deists, agnostics and devout Christians.
- Ha ha ha!Lv 77 years ago
And you pick and choose your interpretation of the Bible to suit your fancy. Do you think your God would appreciate the stiff-minded arrogance it takes for you to judge others in their interpretation, to believe you know his will better?
Where is the dome holding up the sky and the celestial waters, NDMA? Or am I reading that part of the NRSV wrong?
- Andy WLv 77 years ago
Clearly those who do so neither understand men's theories nor God's revelation.
- 7 years ago
Have to agree with Dougs answer. God is not pleased and is also not mocked. It's impossible to please God whilst you are a follower and pleaser of the world.
- 7 years ago
I agree with you! Therefore:
According to Ecclesiastes 1:5 the sun goes (hasteth) around the earth--as, of course, it must, since, according to Ps 93:1, Ps 96:10, and 1 Chr 16:30, the earth does not move. And the earth cannot move because, according to 1 Samuel 2:8 and Ps 75:3, it is placed on pillars. And because it is placed on pillars, it has an underside and an upper side, as confirmed by Isaiah 40:22 which indicates that the earth is a circle--i.e., a flat disk.
That is also confirmed by Proverbs 8:27, which describes god as beginning the creation of the world when he "drew a circle on the face of the deep" (ESV), (the Hebrew word translated as “circle,” "compass, “ and “horizon” in the different Bibles is the same word used for circle in Isaiah 40:22).
(The Hebrew word translated as "circle" in Isaiah 40:22 is chuwg, which means "circle" not "sphere." Strong's Concordance: "circle"..."describe a circle." Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: "Circle...the earth conceived as a disc, Is 40:22." Hebrew-Aramaic and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: "draw round, make a circle.")
Underneath the flat disk of the earth is the abyss, the bottomless pit, which is referred to several times in the Bible (ex. Rev. 9:1,2).
That is also what is being referred to in Job 26:7 when it says that the earth hangs over nothing. (The Hebrew word translated "upon" in the KJV also means "over.") The actual sphere of the earth in space is not "suspended' or "hanging" "over" or "upon" nothing. It is orbiting the sun at 66,700 miles per hour. If the earth can be considered "hanging" over anything, it is the sun, which certainly is NOT nothing.
Several other verses in the Bible also indicate the earth is flat, such as Nebuchadnezzar's vision in Dan 4:10-11 (the tree could not be seen from all the earth if it were not flat). Dan 2:28 states that the visions of Nebuchadnezzar are from God. If the biblical god says the biblical earth is flat, it must be flat.
The original Hebrew word translated as firmament is raqiya, which is a noun derived from the Hebrew word raqa. That word is a verb meaning "to beat out," and is used in the bible in reference to beating out metal into plates or expanses of the metal (as in Exodus 39:3). So raqiya, as a noun, would literally mean "that which is beaten out."
The biblical firmament, or sky, is therefore a solid, beaten out expanse or vault set on the rim of the flat disk of the earth. That is confirmed in Job 37:18, which states:
"Can you beat out the vault of the skies as he does,
hard as a mirror of cast metal?" (New English Bible)
There, the Hebrew word translated as "beat out" (or "spread out" in other versions) is, as noted above, raqa.
The solid vault of heaven is also implied in verses such as Deut 4:32:
"Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?" See also Ps 19:1-6, Isaiah 13:4-5, and, particularly, Matt 24:31.
The "ends of heaven" would be the base of the vault of heaven where it rests on the rim of the disk of the earth.
The stars in the biblical cosmos are just lights set in the firmament. As mere lights in the sky, they will fall to the earth in the Last Days (Matt 24:29), which conflicts with finding that the actual stars are other suns and many times larger than the earth.
So, according to the Bible the earth is a flat, immovable disk, supported by pillars and covered with a solid vault of heaven, the rim of which is is resting on the perimeter of the disk of the earth, and the stars are just lights set in the vault of heaven.
That this is the correct view of the biblical cosmos is shown by the fact that it describes a structure with parts that are fully consistent with each other. That structural consistency indicates that it accurately represents the cosmos as conceived by the ancient Hebrews and as its writers incorporated that view in the Bible.
In addition, according to the Bible, earth is the centerpiece of creation and in the Last Days god will destroy the earth and the heavens as part of his plan for mankind. (2 Peter 3:10)
So, according to the Bible, the whole cosmos was created merely for the sake of the earth and its inhabitants—which, considering the magnitude of the real universe, is ridiculous.
All of which goes to show that the cosmos of the Bible does not exist, and therefore the god who created it does not exist.
Source(s): http://www.google.com/search?q=biblical+cosmos By the way, the ancient Greek scientists knew that the earth is a sphere at the same time the writers of the Bible believed it to be as described above. In the fourth century B.C. Aristotle presented several scientific arguments for a spherical earth, and Heraclides provided rational arguments to show that the earth is spinning on its axis. And in the third century B.C. Aristarchus even proposed a view of the solar system essentially the same as our modern view. He also measured the distance to the moon and its size with remarkable accuracy. Also in the third century B.C. Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy. Where in the Bible is anything comparable to that to be found?