AMAZING BIBLE FACTS The Everlasting Word “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” Isaiah 40:8 700 BC The Bible has survived every kind of attempt imaginable to eliminate it’s context. Life is in the Blood “ For the life of the flesh is in the blood…” Leviticus 17:11 1500 BC In 1616, Physician William Harvey who was the founder of modern physiology, discovered that blood circulation is in fact the key factor in maintaining physical life. Genetic Locks “Each after it’s own kind…” Genesis 1:11-25 1500 BC Only in the last 100 years has DNA research verified the genetic locks on species. Each species can only genetically reproduce the same species. Time, Place, Matter “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 1500 BC In the beginning = Time The heavens = Place The earth = Matter It wasn’t until the 20th century that physicists confirmed that the universe and it’s foundation consists of space, time and matter. In fact, space and time are so tightly linked that astrophysicists now speak of a space time continuum. Universal Decay “In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth… They will parish…They will all wear out like a garment.” Psalms 102:25-27 1000 BC The process of universal decay is called “Entropy” it is described in physics by the “Second Law of Thermodynamics” These laws where not discovered until the 1800s. Oceanography Psalm 8:8 Speaks of the fish and all creatures that swim “in the pathways of the sea.” 1000 BC Although others had written of the phenomena of the paths of the seas in the 1600s, it wasn’t until 1860, when a modern pioneer in oceanography, Matthew Fontaine Murray, called attention to the fact that the ocean was indeed an entire circulating system. His book on Physical oceanography is still a highly regarded source of information on this science. Countless Stars “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered… “ Jeremiah 33:22 630 BC Before the invention of the telescope – several scientists had actually counted and catalogued what they thought where all the stars in the universe… around 3000. It wasn’t until the invention of the telescope in 1608 that the scientists realized that the number of stars was unfathomable… indeed… in the countless millions… just as the Bible has declared. Our best estimates are that there are 10^21 stars. 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 An uncountable number. Resting Place of Earth Throughout the centuries man has speculated about the resting place of planet earth. Upon whom or what the planet is resting became an important part of mythology in many ancient cultures. To the ancient Greeks the candidates where Atlas or Hercules. The Hindus believed that elephants or turtles where the pillars on which the earth rested. “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.” Job 26:7 1600 BC The oldest book known to man. Valleys, Mountains, Seas Psalm 18:15, Jonah 2:7, Job 38:16 All speak of the “valleys and mountains of the sea” 1600-1000 BC These statements where made thousands of years before scientists discovered them and catalogued their actual existence. Two Great Lights Genesis 1:16 speaks of the creation of two “great lights” The greater – Sun – rule the day The lesser – Moon – rule the night The Hebrew words for Greater and Lesser refer to the size of the objects, not the amount of light they give off.We know that the sun is over 1 000 000 larger than the moon. But when Genesis was written in 1500 BC - the prevailing “TRUTH” of the day was that the moon was bigger than the sun. That is the way it appeared to the naked eye.Aristarchus, the Greek astronomer that lived in Alexandria around 250 BC was the first to discover that the sun was actually larger than the earth and the moon 1500 years after the Bible had declared it to be so. Earth is Round “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.” Isaiah 40:22 700 BC The Hebrew word for circle indicates a spherical object. The Biblical statement of FACT was made 300 years before Aristotle suggested that the earth may be a sphere in his “Book on the Heavens”
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