The last couple weeks my husband and I have been reading some interesting things about the Bible and how it connects with science. Not contradicts it, but amazingly it talked about things to come hundreds of years before it became a reality. When I see the bridge between the scripture and what is real in our world today, I realize all the more why I am a believer in God’s word being absolute truth.
The Bible tells us that the earth floats in space. Just fifteen hundred years before Christ, the old testament patriarch, Job said, “ He…. hangeth the earth upon nothing”. Job 26:7 In 1650 A.D. science agreed.
In the Bible it tells us that the earth is composed of atoms. “ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen are not made of things which are visible”. Hebrews 11:3 Science has since discovered that everything we see is composed of things we can’t see…namely, invisible atoms.
The Bible tells us the earth is round. “ It is He who sits above the circle of the earth”. Isaiah 40:22 The word circle comes from a Hebrew word which also means “circuit”. The book of Isaiah was written about seven hundred years before Christ. Aristotle suggested the earth might be a sphere in his book, On The Heavens. Another two thousand years later, it was that same scripture that inspired Christopher Columbus to said around the world to actually see if it was flat, as many believed. His diaries talk of illumination from the Holy Scriptures.
The Word of God teaches Oceanography. In Psalms 8:8, David describes “paths of the sea”. Matthew Fontaine Maury (called the “Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology) said, “ If God said there are paths in the sea, I am going to find them”. Because of his belief and early research, we have the discovery of warm and cold ocean currents. His books are still used as texts for those studying that subject.
A prediction was made in the Bible about modern telecommunications. As crazy as that sounds, look at this verse from Job 38:35: “Can you send out lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, ‘ Here we are!’?” What God was saying was that light could be sent, and manifest itself in speech. Along those same thoughts, electromagnetic radiation (from radio waves to x-rays) travels at the speed of light. That is how we get instant wireless communication with someone on the other side of the world. Not until 1864 did science discover the same thoughts by a British scientist James Clerk Maxwell. He declared that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing.
The Bible talks about the water cycle. “ All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place from which the rivers come, there they return again.” Ecclesiastics 1:7 The scriptures about water were the most fascinating for me because for many years as an elementary teacher I taught students about the water cycle. Many times the children would draw diagrams of the rain or precipitation coming to the earth only to go up again to form clouds. Thus creating a cycle which kept repeating itself so our earth could be watered.
Consider these Biblical quotes that came hundreds of years before our own scientists understood the water cycle in the seventeenth century.
“ If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” King Solomon – Ecclesiastes 11:3
“ He…calls the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth” Amos the prophet – Amos 9:6
“ Behold, God is great…He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man” Job’s friend, Elihu Job 36: 26-28
The Bible talks about dinosaurs. This one is kind of fun to read about, and a surprise to see what is described. “ Look now at the behemoth, which I made…his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar…His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. He is the first of the ways of God; only He who made him can bring near His sword.” Job 40: 15-19 This last sentence was explained like this: He is the first of the ways ( creation)…in other words, God created them. And only He who made them can bring near his sword (destroy them)…in other words, He also made them extinct. (This information was shared in Scientific Facts of the Bible by Ray Comfort.
Science proves the Bible true repeatedly. It doesn’t need to, but it does. The most exciting part is that the God who created all these things with such precision and order knows every detail of our lives too. And He is looking out for us in the same ways.
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