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Originally Posted by MAYBE  if the bible is not inspired of God how did a man living over 3000 years ago know this
Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
this was a time when people thought the earth was flat
and don't give me the earth is technically a sphere non-nonsense, a man living at that time would have translated what he saw in a vision as best he could especially since there is no word for sphere in hebrew
amen friends |
Isaiah 40:22 is not evidence that the bible is divine.
For thousands of years, even at the time of the old testament, people have submitted theories of the nature of the world around them. Some are way off, some are pretty close. If one ancient philosopher guessed that the earth is a "circle", then people thousands of years later would say, "hey, he turned out to be right". And anyone else who guessed otherwise would simply be ignored. You, on the other hand, don't merely say "he turned out to be right", you instead say, "hey, god must have told him the right answer."
In other words, in the bible, lots of people make guesses about how things are and assert these guesses as divine truth. Some of the guesses turned out to be right, some of them didn't. But none of it is divine. Don't just favor the guesses that turn out to be right and claim its evidence of divine influence.