Hi neo, or is that nero?
My quote...
If a person actually takes the time, he can find loads of evidence which corroborates God's Word, to the point where an intelligent, stable minded person can come to the conclusion that God is real, and His Word is 100% accurate.
Such as...? (Fair warning: statements such as "just look in the mirror" or "it's all around you if you just look" will be summarily ignored.) Where would you like to begin? Historical accounts, archaeology? Science? My quote...
You have the free will to choose not to look for yourself. You can listen to people who tell you "there is no God", but you are potentially putting yourself in the position of choosing Hell over Heaven. God doesn't choose to send you to Hell, we decide that for ourselves when we choose to ignore Him.
(Emphasis mine.) You may want to rephrase that. It implies that our will supercedes God's will in the matter of one's eternal resting place. No it doesn't. It's a simple statement neo, however, I'll simplify further for you...
God gave each of us free will to choose Him or to choose an eternity in Hell...We choose. My quote...
There is scientific corroboration, there is historical corroboration and there is archaeological corroboration.
Again - such as...? I could give you many examples, but I've seen your type before, nothing will be good enough.
Here's an example from the Old Testament...
God says He created us from the dust of the ground. Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Here's a challenge for you neo. Find a single chemical found in the dirt of the earth that the human body is lacking.
When you find out there isn't one, you'll no doubt claim "coincidence"
I'll continue...
THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE The basic stages of the water cycle are described in the following three verses. The third verse, from Ecclesiastes, may also indicate the sphericity of the Earth.
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." -
Job 26:8 "He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight." -
Ecclesiastes 1:6-7 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. -
The Bible describes the recirculation of water. Ecclesiastes 1:7All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.
Isaiah 55:10For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
Hydrothermal vents are described in two books of the Bible written before 1400BC—more than 3,000 years before their discovery by science. Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Job 38:16Have you entered the springs of the sea?
Or have you walked in search of the depths?
The Bible described the shape of the earth centuries before people thought that the earth was spherical. Isaiah 40:22It 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.
The word translated “circle” here is the Hebrew word chuwg which is also translated “circuit,” or “compass” (depending on the context). That is, it indicates something spherical, rounded, or arched—not something that is flat or square.
The book of Isaiah was written sometime between 740 and 680 BC. This is at least 300 years before Aristotle suggested that the earth might be a sphere in this book On the Heavens.
Statements Consistent With Anthropology
We have cave paintings and other evidence that people inhabited caves. The Bible also describes cave men. Job 30:5,6They were driven out from among men,
They shouted at them as at a thief.
They had to live in the clefts of the valleys,
In caves of the earth and the rocks.
Statements Consistent With Meteorology
The Bible describes the circulation of the atmosphere. Ecclesiastes 1:6The wind goes toward the south,
And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.
The Bible includes some principles of fluid dynamics. Job 28:25To establish a weight for the wind,
And apportion the waters by measure.
THE EXISTENCE OF SPACE In the Book of Job it is claimed that the Earth is suspended in emptiness, or space, which Job describes as "nothing."
"He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing." - Job 26:7 (NIV)
PLANTS PRECEDED ANIMALS The Bible places the creation of plants (on the Third Day) before the creation of animals (on the Fifth and Sixth Days). Science is in agreement here. Fossil records demonstrate that plants appeared before animals, both in the sea and on the land.
Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. -
Genesis 1:20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." -
Genesis 1:24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. -
ANIMAL LIFE BEGAN IN THE SEA Most scholars will acknowledge that the Biblical Creation story is certainly incomplete from a scientific perspective. Yet, what the Bible does reveal in no way contradicts the scientific evidence. For example, science has learned that the first animal life appeared in the oceans. This correlates nicely with the Biblical record where the first mention of animals in the Bible places them in the Earth's waters.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures..."
THE OCEAN FLOOR Beneath the ocean's vast surface was a mysterious, unknown world that possessed wonders beyond the scope of ancient man's technology. The sailors of that age were no doubt skilled in the art of sea travel. Yet the murky depths of the seas they sailed were as mysterious to them as the distant galaxies of space are to us. It is little wonder then that the writers and storytellers of old conjured up horrifying tales of sea monsters and terrifying creatures of the deep. Man's imagination is most productive when he possesses the least amount of knowledge.
Even today, there is much about the ocean that remains mysterious and undiscovered. But the contour of the ocean floor is no longer a mystery. We now know that the bottom of the ocean is comprised of great mountain ranges, deep trenches, volcanoes, valleys, and plateaus. We take this knowledge for granted today, yet such information has only been verified in the past century, with the advent of sonar and satellites. How is it possible, then, that the Bible speaks of "valleys" existing beneath the sea?
2 Samuel 22:16 The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of breath from his nostrils. -
All of these examples will no doubt be ambiguous or fluke coincidence to an atheist.
Would you like some archaeology now? Perhaps some history?
Bronzesnake.
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