Where did their ideas come from?

I have spent a while today studying and researching in the Bible. It is so interesting. No matter what we think we find, anything opinion (including mine) about the Bible is purely conjecture unless we are actually quoting the word of God or the word of Jesus.

Anything that we read in the Bible, that we might consider controversial or contradictive, shouldn’t matter one iota on how you feel about your faith. If anything the more you learn about God’s words, the words of Jesus and their works shouldn’t detract from your feeling but should enhance your love of the purposes in which God wants us to have.

There are a lot of holes in the Bible dealing with time frames. There are some contradictions. There are some errors in printing and writing. It shouldn’t matter.

My absolute faith in God and Jesus has grown. It has become stronger now than ever in my entire life. This I know for a fact, there are too many physical realities in life that points to the very existence of God.

Let me give you a few examples of many:

Water evaporation was discovered by N. Wallerius (a Swedish man who researched hydrology, which includes evaporation: Between-- 1739-1747) He proved that water vapor comes from liquid water.

(Job 36:27-28) “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.

(Ecclesiastes 1:7) “All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.”

(Job 37:16) “Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?”

Copernicus (1473-1543) formulated a heliocentric model of the universe making the earth round. This began the “Copernican Revolution.”

(Isaiah 40:22) “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heaven like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.”

(Job 26:7) “He spreads out the northern (skies) over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”

The Book of Job was written between the 6^th and 4^th Century BC. The Book of Ecclesiastes was written no earlier than 450 BC and or as late as 180 BC.  The Book of Isaiah was written about the 8^th Century BC.  I understand that two scrolls of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and were dated about a century before the time of Jesus; they were almost identical to the Masoretic text which forms the basis of the biblical version.

Copernicus and Wallerius had to have gotten their ideas from somewhere? These ideas were well thought before Copernicus and Wallerius were even formed.

I must remind you what I write is my opinion only. You do not have to agree with me. Check it out on your own.

Pray for each other.

God bless each and everyone always.