Transcript The Bible is From God

The Bible is From God
Super Sunday – Lesson 4
The Bible is NOT a science text book
But there are statements throughout the
Bible that are facts of science
FACTS that were not known or
“discovered” for centuries
How did the Bible writers know about
these things?
VALUE OF SNOW
Job 38:22 – “Have you entered the
treasury of snow, Or have you seen the
treasury of hail,
Now we know what God was saying
Snow contains – nitrogen
It is important to gardens, lawns,
farmers, and grazing land
EMPTY NORTH SKY
Job 26:7 - He stretches out the north
over empty space
In 1609 Galileo invented the
telescope and began to study the sky
The thinking of the world (religious
and scientific) was GEOCENTRIC - - a
view that all the solar system revolved
around the earth
EMPTY NORTH SKY
Galileo dared to suggest that:
The north sky did not have many stars
The earth was NOT the center
The earth traveled around the sun - called “heliocentric” – We orbit the sun
For his “heresy” he was
excommunicated and his writings were
banned
GRAVITY
Job 26:7 - He hangs the earth on
nothing.
Many theories existed to explain how
the earth was held in place
It was not until Isaac Newton
that we were taught about gravity
GRAVITY
The famous event of an apple falling
from a tree – caused him to ask the
question – Why did the apple fall down?
His study lead to the concept of gravity
GRAVITY
Newton “discovered” the forces of
gravity on the earth
God knew that long before Newton
OCEAN CURRENTS
Psalm 8:8 - The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea That pass
through the paths of the seas.
An oceanographer was on his
deathbed when he heard these
words
He resolved to learn their meaning
– and lived to track and chart ocean
currents to help ships cross the
ocean
SUN ORBIT
Psalm 19:5-6 – 5 Which is like
a bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, And rejoices like a
strong man to run its race. 6 Its
rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the other end;
And there is nothing hidden from
its heat.
SPEED OF LIGHT
Job 38:19 – Where is the way
to the dwelling of light? And
darkness, where is its place,
Light has a “way” – light travels
We now measure outer space in
“light years” – the distance light
travels in one year
EVAPORATION CYCLE
Ecclesiastes 1:6-7 – 6 The wind goes
toward the south, And turns around to
the north; The wind whirls about
continually, And comes again on its
circuit. 7 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.
EVAPORATION CYCLE
Job 36:27-28 – 27 For He draws up
drops of water, Which distill as rain from
the mist, 28 Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.
Job 26:8 - He binds up the water in
His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not
broken under it.
EVAPORATION CYCLE
SIZE OF ARK
God commanded Noah
to build an ark
450 feet long
75 feet wide
45 feet high
This is a ratio of
30 : 5 : 3
SIZE OF ARK
For centuries this size and
ratio was ridiculed as not sea
worthy
In 1844, a man named
Isambard K. Brunnel built his
giant ship, the Great Britain.
The SS Jeremiah O'Brien
enters the English Channel
SIZE OF ARK
As it turns out, these
measurements are perfect for
a huge boat built to stay afloat
rather than for speed.
God knew all along what
was needed for the ark to stay
afloat loaded with heavy
cargo
BURY WASTE
Deuteronomy 23:12-13 - 12“Also you shall
have a place outside the camp, where you
may go out; 13and you shall have an
implement among your equipment, and when
you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and
turn and cover your refuse.
God knew some things about human
waste that we did not know for many
centuries
BURY WASTE
In Europe, during the Middle Ages,
more than 13 million died in what is
called “The BLACK Plague.”
The plague was – open refuse –
human waste that was NOT buried
If only they had known what God
knew all along
LIFE IN THE BLOOD
Leviticus 17:11 - For the life of
the flesh is in the blood, and I
have given it to you upon the
altar to make atonement for your
souls; for it is the blood that
makes atonement for the soul.’
Bleeding was a common
treatment for illness
LIFE IN THE BLOOD
George Washington bled to
death because they were trying
to get rid of the poison in his
body
Leeches were used to suck out
the poison
They did not know they were
killing rather than healing
COUTLESS STARS
Jeremiah 33:22 - As the host
of heaven cannot be numbered,
nor the sand of the sea
measured, so will I multiply the
descendants of David My
servant and the Levites who
minister to Me.
COUTLESS STARS
Genesis 15:5 - Then He
brought him outside and said,
“Look now toward heaven, and
count the stars if you are able to
number them.” And He said to
him, “So shall your descendants
be.”
EXPANSIVE OUTER SPACE
Isaiah 40:22 - 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 42:5 - Thus says God the
LORD, Who created the heavens and
stretched them out, Who spread forth the
earth and that which comes from it, Who
gives breath to the people on it, And
spirit to those who walk on it:
The LORD is speaking –
Isaiah 45:12 - I have made the earth, And
created man on it. I—My hands—stretched
out the heavens, And all their host I have
commanded.
The scientific evidence is overwhelming
THE BIBLE IS FROM GOD
THE BIBLE IS FROM GOD
There can be no other explanation for the
knowledge the Bible contained many
centuries before man “discovered” these
facts
The challenge for us now –
We must believe that this is the WORD of
GOD
We must OBEY the commands