Please read what I write. I am not telling what I think, I am telling what, historically, people made of this bible verse. Honestly!! Is there the slightest doubt, today, in anyone's mind about what God meant by speaking of the 4 corners! It is an example of thinking a verse means something it does not mean, and I feel sure people are thinking about the scripture about the creation of our earth as dating the earth in our kinds of time in error of what those scriptures mean.
The Age of the Universe
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The reference is more often the orbit of the Earth and the Cycles of life.
"The Tigris runs to Assyria, the Euphrates to Armenia, the Pishon to Havilah or Elam, and the Gihon to Ethiopia. In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world".
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East and West is a direction. There is a North & South Pole so that is an actual place.
"The Tigris runs to Assyria, the Euphrates to Armenia, the Pishon to Havilah or Elam, and the Gihon to Ethiopia. In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world".
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East and West is a direction. There is a North & South Pole so that is an actual place.
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Why would it have to be there?
Exodus 20:11-12
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 12. Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
its all right there written by the same author, the 7th day God rested, and likewise, the 7th day is the sabbath, where no one was to work they were to rest, until the 1st day where they would start working for 6 days again.
yes, we are in rest today and forever in a spiritual sabbath. But that has no bearing on what moses meant when he said on the 7th day God rested,
Exodus 20:11-12
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 12. Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
its all right there written by the same author, the 7th day God rested, and likewise, the 7th day is the sabbath, where no one was to work they were to rest, until the 1st day where they would start working for 6 days again.
yes, we are in rest today and forever in a spiritual sabbath. But that has no bearing on what moses meant when he said on the 7th day God rested,
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Isaiah 40:22 [Full Chapter]
It is He who sits above the circle (sphere) 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.
It is He who sits above the circle (sphere) 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.
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That may or may not be true, don’t take today’s things and think it always was the way, Peter warned us in the last days men would do this to their own shame.
a flash flood which takes 40 days added with the catastrophic events of the earths crust breaking up, would occur so fast, it would actually heat the earth
now because of the earth being flooded, the temperatures, because there is no land to radiate the suns warmth.would then fall. the ending result would be an ice age,
a flash flood which takes 40 days added with the catastrophic events of the earths crust breaking up, would occur so fast, it would actually heat the earth
now because of the earth being flooded, the temperatures, because there is no land to radiate the suns warmth.would then fall. the ending result would be an ice age,
I have studied Ancient History for over 50 years now. The best selling book "Paradigm" does explain how the past can play itself out in the present. Even our Bible is filled with stories of people in the past that have had visions of the future. Some people believe the future has more impact on the present then the past does.
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well lets see
He said let there be light and there was light
2 Peter 3:3-4
3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
He said let there be light and there was light
2 Peter 3:3-4
3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
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Well everyone wants to be a stickler about 6 24hr days, scripture says the sun knows when to set and not the earth knows when to rotate and the moon is for seasons. you can’t alter language of the Bible.
Psalm 104
19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
No where in scripture says the earth rotates
Psalm 104
19He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
No where in scripture says the earth rotates
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Hard to understand?
I do not see that. I see it as easy. As God told Moses in 6 days I created on the 7th I rested as such. You and al Israelnare to rest on the 7th day
There is no way in this context we can make the 7th day be anything more than a literal day
if you try to make it do that’s that would be why it is hard to understand
I do not see that. I see it as easy. As God told Moses in 6 days I created on the 7th I rested as such. You and al Israelnare to rest on the 7th day
There is no way in this context we can make the 7th day be anything more than a literal day
if you try to make it do that’s that would be why it is hard to understand