Parky60 wrote:
The Bible indicates that the earth is a sphere. The word translated ‘circle’ comes from the Hebrew word chug, which more correctly means sphere. Thus, the description in Isaiah 40:22 stating that God “sits enthroned above the circle of the earth…” refers to God looking down on Earth from above, which is consistent with a spherically shaped Earth because a only a sphere always looks like a circle when viewed from space.
The Bible also indicates in several places other than Isaiah 40:22 that God has stretched out the heavens like a curtain. The Big Bang theory remains today’s prevailing theory concerning the origin of the universe. With it comes the theory that the universe is expanding and that it had a beginning. The Bible, of course, references the beginning of the universe in Genesis 1 but it also speaks of an expanding universe in the following passages:
Isaiah 42:5 – This is what God the LORD says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out…
Isaiah 44:24 – “… I am the LORD, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens…”
Isaiah 45:12 – “… My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.”
Jeremiah 10:12 – But God made the earth by his power… and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
The prophets of the Bible knew that God had “stretched out the heavens”—a description that bears an uncanny similarity to the theory of an expanding universe. What was often considered a metaphorical, poetic expression turns out to be more literal than ever thought, according to modern science. The Word of God, inspired by God, continues to amaze.
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