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There are passages in the Bible that coincide with scientific
principles that weren't widely accepted until hundreds of years
after the Bible had been written. Here are some examples:
1. The Bible said the earth is round and is suspended in
space:
The earth is round!
You may be surprised to learn that the Bible revealed that the
earth is round. Job 26:10, Prov 8:27, Isaiah 40:22, Amos 9:6.
Today, we chuckle at the people of the fifteenth century who feared
sailing because they thought they would fall over the edge of the
flat earth. Yet the Bible revealed the truth in 1000 B.C. 2500
years before man discovered it for himself!
In various verses, the Bible says the earth is round and hangs in
space. It took a long time for science to catch up and reach the
same conclusions. Copernicus made the discovery in 1475. But the
Bible always knew. Here are two related Bible verses that were
written more than 2500 years ago, and more than 1000 years before
Copernicus:
"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth..." (Isaiah
40:22,NIV). (By the way, the Hebrew language at that time did not
have a word for "sphere," only for "circle." )
"He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends
the earth over nothing" (Job 26:7, NIV).
Read Proverbs 8:22-31, Job 26:7-10, Isaiah 40:21-22.
"Paths of the sea" Matthew Maury (1806-1873) is considered the
father of oceanography. He was bed-ridden during a serious illness
and asked his son to read a portion of the Bible to him. While
listening, he noticed the expression "paths of the sea" in Psalms
8:8. Upon his recovery, Maury took God at his word and went looking
for these paths. We are indebted to his discovery of the warm and
cold continental currents.
His book on oceanography is still considered a basic text on the
subject and is still used in universities. Maury used the Bible as
a guide to scientific discovery.
2. The Bible described the Hydrologic Cycle:
Revealed in the Bible: Job 36:27-28
The water cycle was not fully understood until about 30 B.C. by a
Roman engineer named Marcus Vitruvius. Yet every aspect of the
water cycle was fully revealed to mankind in 1600 B.C.! The Bible's
description is in perfect harmony with modern science. Eccl 1:6-7;
11:3; Job 26:8; Amos 9:6. Vitruvius was 1600 years too late!
In various passages, the Bible describes a hydrologic cycle, the
process by which clouds are formed, rain is produced and ground
water is replenished. Science made the same discovery in the 1600s,
long after the Bible passages were written. Here are the related
Bible verses:
"He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst
under their weight" (Job 26:8, NIV).
"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the
streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers
fall on mankind" (Job 36:27-28, NIV).
"The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and
round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into
the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come
from, there they return again" (Ecclesiastes 1:6-7, NIV).
3. The Bible stated that the stars cannot be counted:
For centuries, scientists and astronomers thought they could count
the precise number of stars in the universe. Brahe, for example,
said there were 777. Kepler claimed the total was 1,005. Hipparchus
said there were 1,022 stars. Ptolemy raised the number to 1,056.
Eventually, scientists, including the great Galileo, concluded that
the stars could not be numbered, just as the Bible had always
claimed:
"I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites
who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as
measureless as the sand on the seashore" (Jeremiah 33:22,
NIV).
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the
stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So
shall your offspring be." (Genesis 15:5, NIV).
4. The Bible stated the existence of valleys and springs in the
seas:
Only until the past few hundred years did people have the
technology to discover that there are deep valleys and fresh water
springs in the oceans. But the Bible always knew:
"The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the
earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord. . . " (2 Samuel 22:16,
NIV).
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day
of the second month--on that day all the springs of the great deep
burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. "
(Genesis 7:11, NIV).
5. The Bible stated that kind words and laughter are good for one's
health:
In recent years, American newspapers have published various reports
that laughter releases chemicals within a person's body that can
contribute to one's health. And, that depression and stress can
weaken the immune system and contribute to various health problems.
But, the Bible knew of the health virtues of laughter roughly 3000
years ago when the Bible's book of Proverbs was recorded:
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to
the bones." (Proverbs 16:24, NIV).
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up
the bones." (Proverbs 17:22, NIV).
6. The Bible stated that stars differ from one another centuries
before scientists reached the same conclusion:
Today we know that the stars in the skies are very different from
one another, that they are made up of differing concentrations of
different elements, and that they vary in their sizes, their ages
and in their proximity to the earth. But the ancient people had no
way to prove this. Even so, Paul, who received many insights from
Jesus, wrote a passage about 2000 years ago in the Bible's book of
1 Corinthians that said that the stars in the heavens did indeed
differ from one another:
"The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars
another; and star differs from star in splendor." (1 Corinthians
15:41).
God used "anesthesia" before it was even discovered:
gen. 2:21, "so the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep ; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's
ribs..."
God commanded the hebrews to cleanse themselves with fresh water
even before the discovery of bacteria(God is in the tomorrow
already!)
lev. 15:13, "...he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with
fresh water, and he will be clean."
In hospital or medial centre, patients with contagious disease or
condition have to be isolated but God commanded this a long time
ago:
lev. 13:46, "as long as he has the infection, he remains unclean.
he must live alone . he must live outside the camp.
why do health officials quarantine infectious individuals? so they
won't spread infection. God knew it even before they did!
The bible describes the precision of movement in the
universe:
jer. 31:35, "thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by
day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
who disturbs the sea and its waves roar..."
The bible describes the circulation of atmosphere:
ecc. 1:6, "the wind goes toward the south and turns around to the
north, the wind whirls about continually and comes again on its
circuit."
The bible includes some principles of fluid dynamics:
job 28:25, "to establish the weight for a wind and apportion the
waters by measure."
lev.17:11 describes the value of blood, "for the life of the flesh
is in the blood..."
The bible describes something like a television, probably a
satellite TV that will allow everyone to see a single event:
Revelation.11:9,NIV "For three and a half days men from every
people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and
refuse them burial. "
6 DAY CREATION...
GOD WAS TAKING HIS TIME
If a fair maiden kisses a frog which instantly changes into a
handsome prince, we would call it a fairy tale. But if the change
takes 40 million years, we call it evolution. We often hear that
science has proved evolution. Nothing could be further from the
truth. You see, people often confuse scientific fact with
scientific theory. Current scientific theory does conflict with
creation. But the facts of science do not! There are many
scientists who fully accept Biblical creation. Surprised?
The theory of evolution says that over millions of years simple
life forms (one celled creatures) slowly evolved into complex life
forms (fish), and that one kind of animal evolved into another kind
(ape to man). Genesis, on the other hand, says that all life forms
were created in six, 24 hour days. Genesis chapter one states 10
times that life forms can only reproduce after their own kind (ape
to ape, man to man).
All the observable facts of science strongly support the Bible's
claim that it is impossible for one kind to reproduce a different
kind. The truth is, there is absolutely no tangible evidence to
support evolution from any area of science, just theory and a wild
imagination!
But if the Bible is wrong and man actually did evolve in small
graduations over a long period of time, we should find ample fossil
evidence of links in intermediate stages of transition. For
decades, evolutionists have searched for fossils of these links to
prove biblical creation wrong. Although millions of fossils have
been unearthed, not even one missing link has ever been found. Has
it ever occurred to you that this is the reason why scientists
refer to them as missing links?
Even Charles Darwin realized the difficulty missing links gave his
theory. Darwin wrote in his book, Origin Of The Species, "Why, if
species have descended from other species by fine graduation, do we
not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all
nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them,
well defined?" The reason we have never found any missing links is
quite simple. Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong!
Experts tricked for 40 years! In 1912, Arthur Woodward announced to
the world that he had found the missing link between ape and man.
Piltdown Man, as he called it, consisted of a jaw bone and a piece
of skull which he estimated to be over 500,000 years old! However,
in 1953, when the new fluoride dating process was applied to the
bones, scientists were shocked to learn that the jaw bone was less
than 50 years old.
Only then did they notice that the bones and teeth had been treated
with salts and filed to make them appear old and primitive. In
other words, Piltdown Man was a complete fraud. Take note Bible
student! The world's foremost scientific experts had been fooled
for over 40 years! (Read 1 Corinthians 3:18-20.) For almost a half
century, evolutionists pushed Piltdown Man in the faces of Bible
believers as scientific proof we evolved from apes! Some
proof!
In spite of over 100 years of intensive searching, the only place
you will find a missing link today is in the colourful imagination
of an evolutionist. Museums certainly don't have any! "In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Gen 1:1) Have
you ever considered that when God created the universe in six short
24 hour days, He may have been taking His time?
Although the Bible is not primarily a book of science, it does
contain numerous scientific facts. We laugh at the scientific
knowledge of just a hundred years ago. If man alone were the author
of the Bible, we would expect to find many such humorous errors
contained in it. However, if we examine the scientific data of the
Bible and find it to be accurate to present-day knowledge, then we
have powerful evidence for divine authorship.
The scientific facts we are about to examine are not only accurate,
but were revealed thousands of years before man discovered them for
himself. The Bible does not contain any errors typical of the time
in which it was written. Would we expect anything less from a book
written by God?
The Bible is a reliable book of genuine divine prophecy. You can
trust it! The evidence presented here is just a tiny portion of the
proofs available to establish the divine origin of the Bible. Yet,
they are more than sufficient to prove the inspiration of the
Bible. There will always be men who scoff at the Bible. You,
however, can be confident when you read your Bible that God is the
author, for it is written:
"We constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of
God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what
it really is, the word of God" (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
The Bible is the world's all-time best selling book. About 2.5
billion copies have been printed which are available in over 700
languages. Although the Bible has enjoyed such vast distribution
and attention, it is read relatively little. Perhaps part of the
reason the Bible is so neglected is the many doubts people have
about this unique book. If the Bible came from the mouth of God,
then the scriptures are believable when they speak of Jesus Christ
and accurate when they touch the realm of science.
All scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching,
for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that
the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2
Timothy 3:16,17)
The word "inspired" (theopneustos) in the original Greek language
literally means "God-breathed". When the Bible claims to be
inspired, we understand therefore, that it came from the mouth of
God. It is God-breathed, inspired.
But a skeptic will say, "Everyone knows the Bible was written by
men! The book of 1 Corinthians, for example, was written by a man
named Paul. After all, the very first verse bears his name as the
"author." In reply to this we answer: "Yes, 1 Corinthians was
written by Paul. Notice however, what Paul said in chapter 14,
verse 37: "the things I write to you are the Lord's
commandment."
Paul knew the source of his writings and understood that he was
like a pen in the hand of Almighty God. We must not view the Bible
as the word of Paul, Peter, or Jeremiah, but rather, as the message
God revealed through these men just as it is written in Jeremiah
1:9,
Then the Lord stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and the
Lord said to me, 'behold, I have put my words in your mouth'.
The Bible writers were not like news reporters giving their
personal interpretation of events they eye-witnessed, but were
divinely guided as 2 Peter 1:20-21 says,
Above all, you must understand that no prophesy of scripture came
about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had
its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were
carried along by the Holy Spirit.
God and man worked together in writing the scriptures. However, in
this work, God is the author who dictated the message, and man is
the writing instrument. Men were guided or inspired to write the
exact message God wanted recorded in the Bible.
Now that you have a fundamental understanding of inspiration and
the origin of the Bible, and you have looked at some evidence of
inspiration, its your decision ultimately. Are you ready to put
your faith in Jesus? Are you willing to accept His gift to you? He
is waiting for your answer.
