The Bible is From God

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The Bible is From God

• Super Sunday Lesson 4

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• 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?

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VALUE OF SNOW

• Job 3822 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

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EMPTY NORTH SKY

• Job 267 - 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

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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

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GRAVITY

• Job 267 - He hangs the earth on nothing.
• Many theories existed to explain how the earth
  was held in place
• It was not until Isaac Newtonthat we were taught
  about gravity

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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

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GRAVITY

• Newton discovered the forces of gravity on the
  earth
• God knew that long before Newton

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OCEAN CURRENTS

• Psalm 88 - 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

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SUN ORBIT

• Psalm 195-6 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.

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SPEED OF LIGHT

• Job 3819 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

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EVAPORATION CYCLE

• Ecclesiastes 16-7 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.

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EVAPORATION CYCLE

• Job 3627-28 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 268 - He binds up the water in His thick
  clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.

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EVAPORATION CYCLE
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SIZE OF ARK

• God commanded Noah to build an ark
• 450 feet long
• 75 feet wide
• 45 feet high
• This is a ratio of30 5 3

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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

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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

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BURY WASTE

• Deuteronomy 2312-13 - 12Also 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

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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

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LIFE IN THE BLOOD

• Leviticus 1711 - 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

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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

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COUTLESS STARS

• Jeremiah 3322 - 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.

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COUTLESS STARS

• Genesis 155 - 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.

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EXPANSIVE OUTER SPACE

• 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.
• Isaiah 425 - 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

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• The LORD is speaking Isaiah 4512 - I have
  made the earth, And created man on it. IMy
  handsstretched out the heavens, And all their
  host I have commanded.
• The scientific evidence is overwhelming
• THE BIBLE IS FROM GOD

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• 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