In our public talk today, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, the speaker read out Job 26:7-10 while holding up a photograph of the earth taken from space by Apollo astronauts. The scripture describes the earth as seen by Jehovah God.
"7 He [Jehovah] is stretching out the north over the empty place, hanging the earth upon nothing; 8 wrapping up the waters in his clouds, so that the cloud mass is not split under them; 9 enclosing the face of the throne, spreading out over it his cloud. 10 He has described a circle upon the face of the waters, to where light ends in darkness."
From space:
o- The earth hangs upon nothing.
o- Clouds envelope the earth like white blankets covering the blue seas.
o- The earth is a circle, or globe, of light surrounded by the darkness of space.
The only way Moses could have written these words is under inspiration by God. There was no concept amongst most of mankind 3,500 years ago of any of these ideas.
Although the Bible does not set out to be a scientific textbook, when it touches upon science what is says IS accurate.
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