3-Land and Seas
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:9-10 ASV)
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The Earth: Letting the Bible Define Itself
According to Google, the word “earth” is defined as: 1. the planet on which we live; the world. 2. the substance of the land surface; soil. When you Google “Images” of earth, you see all sorts of pictures of a globe, a ball which includes both land and seas. Most, if not all, are not even true photographs of the land we live on. The picture to the right is not a real photo, but rather just a composite image. It seems that the predominant view in our culture is that the primary definition of earth includes both land and seas, and that it is orbiting the sun in space.…
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The Earth and Seas as a Globe Just Doesn’t Add Up
We have been fed from early childhood the notion that the earth (& seas) is a globe, without any real physical evidence. Nobody *discovered* the earth to be spherical. It was just arbitrarily decided and ultimately rammed down our throats. The notion was conceived in the minds of men…Greek philosophers. Later the notion was thrown into the mix of mathematical models and the “heliocentric model” came to light, stating the earth is a spinning ball revolving around the sun. Again, with no real physical evidence to suggest such an idea. After much resistance, from the *Bible-believing community* I might add, this notion was finally accepted as a reasonable scientific theory.…
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At Odds with Modern Science
I contend that what the Bible teaches concerning the heavens, earth, sun, moon and stars and what we experience in our daily (and nightly) lives are at odds with what the world of modern science would have us believe. The Heavens and the Earth We read in Genesis 1 that a firmament, a firm, stamped out expanse, which is called the “heavens”, was made to separate between the waters under it and the waters above it. Then the waters under this firmament were gathered together and dryness appeared. This dryness is called earth and the gathered waters are called seas. And when we stand on the earth near any shoreline…