Scientific Foreknowledge of the Bible

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Scientific Foreknowledge of the Bible
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From the Field of Astronomy

• Isaiah 4022 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.

• Literally means something with roundness or a
  sphere.
• Why is this significant?

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From the Field of Astronomy

• Psalm 195-6 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.

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From the Field of Astronomy

• Scoffers thought this taught false concept of
  geocentricity (sun revolving around earth).
• Discovered that the sun was the center of the
  universe and stationary with the earth revolving
  around the sun.
• Only recently has it been discovered that the sun
  is in an orbit of its own.
• Takes 220,000 years to complete one orbit.

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From the Field of Astronomy

• Job 3819 Where is the way to the dwelling of
  light? And darkness, where is its place,  
• Sir Isaac Newton suggested that light is composed
  of small particles that travel in a straight
  line.

• Job 3824 By what way is light diffused, Or the
  east wind scattered over the earth?
• When a narrow beam of sunlight passes at a slant
  into a triangular, transparent prism, the
  sunlight is broken into a band of seven colored
  lights called a spectrum.

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From the Field of Oceanography

• Ecclesiastes 17 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.
• Where does all the water go?
• 6,052,500 gallons of water per second in the
  Gulf.

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From the Field of Oceanography

• Ecclesiastes 113 If the clouds are full of rain,
  They empty themselves upon the earth And if a
  tree falls to the south or the north, In the
  place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.
   
• Amos 96 He who builds His layers in the sky, And
  has founded His strata in the earth Who calls
  for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on
  the face of the earth The Lord is His name.
• 2000 years before work of those who demonstrated.

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• Job 3816 Have you entered the springs of the
  sea? Or have you walked in search of the depths?
• The Hebrew word for recesses or trenches refers
  to that which is hidden, and known only by
  investigation. What were these recesses of the
  deep. The Hebrew word for deep is the word for
  seas or oceans? Man, in previous centuries,
  considered the seashore as nothing but a shallow,
  sandy extension from one continent to another.
  Then, in 1873 a team of British scientists
  working in the Pacific Ocean found a recess 5½
  miles deep. Later, another team of researchers
  discovered another trench 35,800 feet deep (over
  6 miles down). Trenches now are known to be found
  in all three major oceans, but the Pacific Ocean
  is unique in that it has a semi-continuous
  peripheral belt of trenches and deep sea troughs.

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From the Field of Oceanography

• Genesis 615 And this is how you shall make it
  The length of the ark shall be three hundred
  cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height
  thirty cubits.

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• This is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3, length to
  breadth to height. Until approximately 1858 the
  ark was the largest seagoing vessel of which we
  have any written record. Using the most
  conservative estimate available for a cubit
  (approximately 17½ to 18 inches), the ark would
  have been roughly 450 feet long (a
  football-field-and-a-half) and would have
  contained approximately 1.5 million cubic feet of
  space. In 1844, when Isambard K.Brunnel built his
  giant ship, the Great Britain, he constructed it
  to almost the exact dimensions of the ark
  (3053). As it turns out, these dimensions are
  the perfect ratio for a huge boat build for
  seaworthiness and not for speed.

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From the Field of Physics

• Genesis 21 Thus the heavens and the earth, and
  all the host of them, were finished.
• Genesis 22 And on the seventh day God ended His
  work which He had done, and He rested on the
  seventh day from all His work which He had done.

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From the Field of Physics

• Moses stated that the creation was finished once
  and for all.
• That is exactly what the First Law of
  Thermodynamics states. This Law (often referred
  to as the Law of Conservation of Energy/Matter)
  states that neither matter nor energy can be
  created or destroyed.
• Why? Because God finished!

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From the Field of Physics

•  Nehemiah 96 You alone are the Lord You have
  made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all
  their host, The earth and everything on it, The
  seas and all that is in them, And You preserve
  them all. The host of heaven worships You.

• Matter can not be destroyed.
• May change form, but the total amount of energy
  in the universe remains the same.
• Why? Because God preserves it all.
• Man can not destroy!

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From the Field of Physics

• Psalm 10226 They will perish, but You will
  endure Yes, they will all grow old like a
  garment Like a cloak You will change them, And
  they will be changed.
• Hebrews 111 They will perish, but You remain
  And they will all grow old like a garment..

• This of course, is exactly what the Second Law of
  Thermodynamics states.

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• The Law states that as time progresses, entropy
  increases. Entropy is the scientific word which
  simply means that things become more disorderly,
  more random, more unstructured. In other words, a
  flower blooms, fades, and dies. A child grows
  into adolescence, adulthood, senility, and dies.
  The house we build today, in 250 years will be a
  heap of junk. The car we buy today, given 30 or
  40 years, will rust and fall apart. Everything is
  running down. Everything is wearing out. Energy
  is becoming less available for work. Eventually
  then (theoretically speaking) the Universe, left
  to itself, will experience a heat death, when no
  more energy is available for use. We did not
  discover these things until fairly recently, yet
  the Bible writers portrayed them accurately
  thousands of years ago. What was the source of
  their knowledge?

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From the Field of Medicine

• Leviticus 1711-14.. for it is the life of all
  flesh. Its blood sustains its life.
• We didnt know that in G.Washingtons day. How
  did he die?
• Genesis 315 And I will put enmity Between you
  and the woman, And between your seed and her
  Seed He shall bruise your head, And you shall
  bruise His heel.
• The seed of life is in male and female.

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From the Field of Medicine

• Several writers of days gone by, including some
  of Mosess day, felt that only the male possessed
  the seed of life, and that the woman actually was
  little more than a glorified incubator. One
  writer even suggested that the male seed could be
  deposited in warm mud, and the end result would
  be the same as placing it in the womans womb.
  But Moses spewed forth no such nonsense. Rather,
  he stated the truth of the matter. But how did he
  know? Upon whose knowledge of such facts did he
  draw?

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From the Field of Medicine

•  Leviticus 1715 And every person who eats what
  died naturally or what was torn by beasts,
  whether he is a native of your own country or a
  stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and
  bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
  Then he shall be clean.
• Moses obviously was highly trained in public
  health procedures?

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• Leviticus 113 Among the animals, whatever
  divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and
  chewing the cudthat you may eat.
• The pig is a scavenger and will eat almost
  anything. In so doing, on occasion it ingests the
  parasite, Trichinella spiralis, which is the
  cause of trichinosis in humans. Left untreated,
  this disease can be debilitating and even deadly.
  Pigs also are known carriers (as intermediate
  hosts) of the tapeworm Taenia solium, and of the
  parasite Echinococcus granulosis, which causes
  tumors in the liver, lungs, and other parts of
  the body.
• Leviticus 119 These you may eat of all that are
  in the water whatever in the water has fins and
  scales, whether in the seas or in the riversthat
  you may eat.
• Interest to note that poisonous fish have no
  scales.

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From the Field of Medicine

• Deuteronomy 2312-14 Also you shall have a place
  outside the camp, where you may go out 13 and
  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.
• Anyone could figure this out. Really?
• Ever heard of the Black Plague?

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From the Field of Medicine

• Genesis 1712 He who is eight days old among you
  shall be circumcised, every male child in your
  generations, he who is born in your house or
  bought with money from any foreigner who is not
  your descendant.

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• But why day eight? In humans, blood clotting is
  dependent upon three factors (a) platelets (b)
  vitamin K and (c) prothrombin. In 1935,
  professor H. Dam proposed the name vitamin K for
  the factor that helped prevent hemorrhaging in
  chicks. We now realize that vitamin K is
  responsible for the production (by the liver) of
  prothrombin. If the quantity of vitamin K is
  deficient, there will be a prothrombin deficiency
  and hemorrhaging may occur. Interestingly, it is
  only on the fifth to seventh days of a newborns
  life that vitamin K (produced by the action of
  bacteria in the intestinal tract) is present in
  adequate quantities. Vitamin K-coupled with
  prothrombin-causes blood coagulation, which is
  important in any surgical procedure.

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From the Field of Biology

• Genesis 111 Then God said, Let the earth bring
  forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the
  fruit tree that yields fruit according to its
  kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth and
  it was so.
•  Genesis 112 And the earth brought forth grass,
  the herb that yields seed according to its kind,
  and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in
  itself according to its kind. And God saw that it
  was good.  

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From the Field of Biology

• Genesis 121 So God created great sea creatures
  and every living thing that moves, with which the
  waters abounded, according to their kind, and
  every winged bird according to its kind. And God
  saw that it was good.
•  Genesis 124 Then God said, Let the earth bring
  forth the living creature according to its kind
  cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth,
  each according to its kind and it was so.
• Science of genetics -1900.

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Finally, The Bible is Inspired of God!

• Jeremiah 3622-23 Now the king was sitting in the
  winter house in the ninth month, with a fire
  burning on the hearth before him. 23 And it
  happened, when Jehudi had read three or four
  columns, that the king cut it with the scribes
  knife and cast it into the fire that was on the
  hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the
  fire that was on the hearth.

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Finally, The Bible is Inspired of God!

• Many have set themselves against God and the
  Bible for generations.
• Tossed them in fire.
• During the middles ages.
• Centuries later -French skeptic Voltaire- 50
  years-no longer discussed among the people.
• 1900 American infidel Robert Ingersoll claimed in
  15 years/morgue.
• Govt come and go. Nations rise and fall. People
  live and die. But.

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Finally, The Bible is Inspired of God!

• Matthew 2435 Heaven and earth will pass away,
  but My words will by no means pass away.  
• Isaiah 408 The grass withers, the flower fades,
  But the word of our God stands forever.