Bible’s Inspiration Hydrologic Cycle. Water is the source that maintains all life on earth. The distribution of water however, is quite varied; many locations have plenty of it while others have very little. Water exists on earth as a solid (ice), liquid or gas (water vapor). Oceans, rivers, clouds, and rain, all of which contain water, are in a frequent state of change (surface water evaporates, cloud water precipitates, rainfall infiltrates the ground, etc.). However, the total amount of the earth’s water does not change. The circulation and conservation of earth’s water is called the “hydrologic cycle”. The Hydrologic Cycle-Online meteorology guide
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 bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.” Job 26:8
“For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.” Job 36:27-28
“The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” Ecclesiastes 1:6-7
Source: Scientific Evidences of the Bible’s Inspiration
Our scientific discoveries should always lead us back to God, because the laws found in the earth and the cosmos are there to speak to us about the very nature and wisdom of God the Creator and law maker. Science has never disproved the Bible, but it has confirmed the laws that God has set in place. He wants us to discover the laws that governs the universe, because he wants us to have a faith that is not blind but one that leads us to a closer relationship with Him. You don’t have to understand every scientific principles in the world to understand that God exist, just take a moment to examine the things around you and search the scriptures.
“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” Romans 1:20
What excuse can we give to God to convince Him that we did not know that He exist ?
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Wonderful work. Please continue to do the good work.
Here is some more Biblical science facts.
Genesis 30:37-39 ~ Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods. He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks at the watering troughs where the flocks came to breed. Because they bred in front of the rods, the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted offspring. This passage qualifies as pure nonsense. It flies directly in the face of everything we know about modern genetics and how the mechanics of inherited physical characteristics works.
Leviticus 11:6 ~ And the hare, because he cheweth the cud…. Hares, like rabbits, are lagomorphs, not ruminants. They do not chew the cud.
Leviticus 11:13-19 ~ These are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten , . . . the eagle, and . . . the bat. The bat is not a fowl. It’s a mammal.
Leviticus 11:20 ~ All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. There is not now nor has there ever been a 4-legged fowl
Leviticus 11:21 ~ These may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap upon the earth. Here we have another absurd reference to four-legged animals that fly.
Leviticus 11:22-23 ~ These ye may eat; the locust…and the beetle…and the grasshopper. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. There is no such thing as a 4-legged insect.
The sun stood still, and the moon stayed. The sun has always stood still in relation to the earth. The Old Testament writers were obviously laboring under the misconception that the sun, not the earth, was moving in an earth-centered universe.
I Kings 7:23 ~ He then made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely. The constant Pi (?), the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is not a simple 3 as is here stated. While the decimal expansion of ? runs to infinity, for practical purposes it is commonly rounded to 3.1416. This same error is repeated in II Chronicles 4:2. It is a known historical fact that both the Egyptians and Babylonians had approximated ? to a few decimal places long before the oldest books of the Bible were written.
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ Jesus said, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree. The mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds. Others, such as the orchid seed, are smaller. Also, shrubs do not grow into trees
That’s just a few of the wonderful science of the Bible. I could go on. I could probably fill a book with this kind of stuff.
Oh! Azure you are funny dude, you did not even take a bit of time to address the topic of the blog, instead you went into a rambling on how the particular verses you have quoted goes against “modern” science, thus assuming that the Bible is wrong. I know you could fill a book with all these misguided thoughts and conjectures.
I will show you how misguided you are by addressing some of your claims:
“Leviticus 11:6 ~ And the hare, because he cheweth the cud…. Hares, like rabbits, are lagomorphs, not ruminants. They do not chew the cud.”
Cud chewers are generally classified as belonging to the order of ruminants- (a sub order of artiodactyls) – and are defined as an “even-toed animal that regurgitates and masticates its food after swallowing. ” This means that a cow, for example, will eat vegetation and swallow it. The cow’s stomach is divided into four chambers where some of more easily digestible nutrients are absorbed by the body while other more fibrous material is stored in the stomach and then regurgitated. The cow will re-chew this material and re-swallow it so that it can digest it as well.
Rabbits and hares, however, do not have a chambered stomach such as the cow. They also do not regurgitate their food. What they do perform is a function named cecotropy.
Rabbits are sometimes called “pseudo-ruminants”… The rhythmic cycle of coprophagy of pure cecal contents practiced by all rabbits allows utilization of microbial protein and fermentation products, as well as recycling of certain minerals. Whereas the feces commonly seen excreted by rabbits are fairly large, dry and ovoid, excreted singly, and consist of fibrous plant material, cecotrophs are about half that size, occur in moist bundles stuck together with mucus, and are very fine textured and odiferous. They are seldom seen, as the rabbit plucks them directly from the anus as they are passed and swallows them whole. Normal rabbits do not allow cecotrophs to drop to the floor or ground, and their presence there indicates a mechanical problem or illness in the rabbit. Margert “Casey” Kilcullen-Steiner, (M.S., L.A.Tg)
“One may not give much thought to the lazy chewing of the cud that we observe cows doing all the time, but this behavior is analogous to coprophagy. The only difference between cud chewing and coprophagy is the point in the digestive tract at which nutrients are expelled and then placed back into the mouth.” Caryl Hilscher-Conklin(M.S. in Biology, University of Notre Dame)
Now, we must also remember that artiodactyls were first defined as a separate order in 1847 by Richard Owen and the behavior of cecotropy was first recognized in 1882. Deuteronomy, however, was written approximately 1500 BC in an ancient Hebrew. It would be intellectually dishonest for someone to claim that a 3500 year old writing is contradictory because it doesn’t match with a scientific classification invented only about a hundred years ago. Further, if the ancient Hebrews defined ‘cud-chewing” as that process where half digested vegetation was re-chewed by an animal for easier re-digestion ( and that is a very specific and scientific definition), I would say the hare fits here fine.
Whenever someone translates an ancient language or writing, some word for word parallels are not going to be available. Most scholars understand this and accept the cultural backgrounds and meanings for what they are. This is why hermeneutics is a serious field of study in higher education.
Reference: http://www.comereason.org
The Bible is not a scientific book or manual, we cannot use our bias against it that will not work against a book that has stood the test of time. I could address your other conjectures, but I want you to look a little closer at the Hare and ask yourself, if I am wrong about the Hare, I could be wrong about the others claims. For example: Genesis 30:37-39 does not contradict science, I have seen breeding done that way before in Jamaica to get different colored goats, I don’t understand the entire process, but Farmers still do it today, maybe not in your “Modern” neck of the woods, but it is practiced.
“There is not now nor has there ever been a 4-legged fowl”
A couple hundred years back you would have said the same thing about Dinosaurs..uum? Don’t assume….The Earth has been around long before you and many animals have gone extinct or died off in “The Flood” (I, know, I know, you do not believe in a world wide flood)
Leviticus 11:13-19 ~ These are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten , . . . the eagle, and . . . the bat. The bat is not a fowl. It’s a mammal.
From Genesis you should realize that a fowl is any winged creature that flies in the air “Fowl of the Air” so in the language the passage was written the readers would also call a bat a fowl. now you and I will not call a bat a fowl because we have sub-divided the species into more confined categories.
Azure, it does not make any sense for you to continue to fight against God. God loves you and He is longing to show you His love. He died on the cross for your sins, trust me on this, He will not stop fighting for your heart and most importantly your soul. He is coming after you with a Love that knows no end.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.†~ John 3:16]