Explain what you mean by cosmology. Where has science proven anything that is different than what is said in the Bible.

Science has a lot of theory's. That's about it.

You have to remember, that it is faith on their part, so proof is not needed. Look at the history in the US, you call yourself a Christian and you can get elected and start wars any where is the world and "GOD" is on our side!

Tru

Suppose the bible's word is good enough for life but not enough
for government work.
A reverse of an old saying by government or by those in government
contracts that their work was good enough for government work.
The government and science can go back and change all estimates.
The bible can't and doesn't care as once revelation occurred 2000
years ago the job was over.

Originally posted by nomorecruelty

i.e. where the ancient biblical people went to use the restroom - for example - isn't mentioned IN the Bible, but yet I think we can all assume they indeed "went", and probably had designated areas/resources for this function.

Actually, it IS mentioned in the Bible. No foolin. Deuteronomy 23:12-14

I wish you had pointed which ones were more important to ya 'cause I could spend all day talking about these (in a civil manner).

Genesis Chapter 1 contains contradictions in terminology: Verses 6, 14, 20, 24, and 26 imply creation by word -- God spoke the universe into existence. Verses 7, 16, 21, 25,and 27 imply creation by action -- God physically made the world.

v6 God said, God did, "and it was so". Just as if I said, "I'm gonna make some tea." I went and brewed some tea. And there it was. I said, I did, "and it was so." I'll assume the others follow in stride.

One biblical commentary explains that the Hebrew word translated as "firmament" is a beating out of a plate of metal. This formed a vault over the ocean that supported the weight of the water above the vault.

Firmament in Hebrew raqiya, "visible arch of the sky". Anyone ever see the scientific model of the universe? It's one MIGHTY ball, made up of a lot of arc, or if ya like "arches." Raqiya is derived from raqa meaning "to spread out", analogous to "hammered". Have ya'll head of the Big Bang Theory? That's one MIGHTY hammer! And the universe is actually still being hammered out as it's still expanding.

This is a passage from the story of the great flood of Noah. It was derived from an earlier Pagan Babylonian myth of a great flood."

Okay here I'll tackle the "Pagan" thingy. Who's to say that the Hebrews took it from the Babylions? The Babs could have just as easily taken it from the Hebrew oral legends. And what about the Cherokee, the Sioux and all the other NA's? Did they get their flood "myth" from the Babs too? Hmmmm, something must be going on here if the "tale" is told all around the world and yet there had not been any contact between the 2 different continents.

The author(s) of Genesis believed that the floodgates were physically closed, the rain stopped and the flood drained away.

I always love these inferences here....how DO you know what the authors of Genesis believed? Did you read their minds? ("You" being meant in a generalized plurality, not anyone in particular.) And how do you know that there aren't floodgates up there in a parallel universe that can affect our rainfall? Anyways, it's pretty much like us saying "I believe you with all my heart." or "The sun 'rises' in the east."

A later text (3 Baruch 3:7) describes how the Tower was eventually built.

A later text? I thought we were talking the Bible here, the "accepted" books by the forefathers.

"Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven." ...The tremendous pressure exerted by the dislodged mass forced the underlying oil and gas up

Don't discount this, if I remember right, there was a volcano somewhere in the vicinity at one time. Could be remembering wrong about that, but a volcano would do the same thing. And God does work miracles. They know there was a fire there, but they've not proven that it all came from the ground. But most likely, it spouted into the air before it "rained" back down, like a geyser, just like a geyser. God uses whatever He wants to use and how He wants to use it.

Angels were using the ladder to travel from Heaven to earth and back. God appeared above the top of the ladder, and talked to Joseph. As in the account of the Tower of Babel, heaven is here portrayed as being only a short distance above the earth -- a location reachable by ladder.

It's a dream for goodness sakes!! Come on, give me a break!

Continued.....

This is getting too long, I'll just hit a few highlights...

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...." Here, the sun was believed to have stopped moving. This speaks again of a stationary earth and moving sun. The moon also stopped moving.

Again, the Western Hemisphere has a few tribes/nations that have the story about "the day that almost didn't come". God invented science, He works it how He wants.

"God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven." The earth is viewed as having ends, unlike a sphere which has no end and no beginning.

Hebrew "earth" here in the verse is erets meaning "ground, field, land" which does indeed have ends where it meets the water.

"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." In the Hebrew cosmology, the earth is supported by columns. The next logical question is what bears the weight of the column, earth and firmament? Job seems to imply that there is nothing to support the earth. God hung the world, its columns, the firmament and heaven on nothing.

Ever hear of the tectonic plates? And there are those who believe in the "hollow earth". But it's pretty odd that Job would know that the northern quarter (using the Hebrew translation of "north) of the earth was an empty space.

The Psalms contain numerous references to: God being in heaven.
Heaven being directly above the earth.
God seeing people below him, and hearing their prayers.
The earth being fixed, stable and immovable.

There are many heavens for the Jews (using Greek here), e.g. epouranios the skies, paradeisos Paradise (bosom of Abraham) and ouranis the abode of God. God is a spirit, He looks down on us, through us, beside us, etc. And the earth only moves on its axis about a degree, sounds pretty stable to me.

"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." (KJV). Most Bible translations use the word "circle" to describe the shape of the earth. A circle is normally considered to be a two-dimensional shape.

(As for the previous ones on the page, let's just say we say the sun rises and sets. We don't say “Dear, let’s go watch the earth rotate 3 more degrees so that we can view the sun in its stationary place as the horizon lowers itself.....”.....oops, there’s no such thing as a true horizon either!)

Okay now to this one "circle" in Hebrew is translated from chuwg "circuit" If the earth was flat here, how could you make a straight line around the earth as the passage implies? A circuit has to connect at the ends and you can't do that on a flat plane, only on a sphere (or cone/cylinder for those who are as picky as these people are) can you do that.

The last parts are referring to visions. Visions, people, are not to be taken literally but figuratively.

Any more questions?