how can anybody know that the bible/ christianity is true

[RowdyRoddy]

The Holy Bible claims a spherical earth and that the earth rotates upon its axis as it orbits our sun.

To claim otherwise is to misinterpret scripture...

What verse specifically?

 

[RowdyRoddy]

Lol, i understand where you're coming from.
Let's first be more clear about this sort of stuff. XP

Natural Selection (in the form of Microevolution) is INDEED TRUE
however, when it comes down to Macroevolution (Darwinism and Evolution) it's NOT true. There is NO scientific evidence for ANY sort of "change in kind". There has only been evidence for a change in species.
(meaning...there is NO evidence whatsoever for a change--Dog to cat. Instead, Darwin only saw the change in species, etc--in the beak of the finches. The finches REMAINED FINCHES. they didn't turn into lizards, etc.)
So technically...Darwin made up all that based on a species that was adapting to circumstances. Adaptation and Evolution are TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.

Then, the Big Bang...
The Bible has NO evidence whatsoever for the Big Bang. Instead, it provides the fact that God created the world in 7 days.
Think about it. The Big Bang would have had to come from Nothing. Why would GOD create a Big Bang? If God exists (and we KNOW He does), why would HE write down in the Bible the way he created the world, and NOT FOLLOW THAT?
There is NO evidence in the Bible for a Big Bang. So....what has you confused? ^__^

Wow, there's a lot of misinformation in this....

 

[RowdyRoddy]

Have you commanded the morning from your days, and caused the dawn to know
its place, that it might take hold of the wings of the earth; that the wicked might
be shaken out of it? It is turned like clay under a seal; and they stand out like a
garment. (Job38:12-14)

This passage, from the oldest book of the Bible, makes the comparison that the earth is a rotating sphere - like clay being turned on a potters wheel.

I'm afraid that's quite a stretch. I think the verse is allegory/metaphor.

 

[RowdyRoddy]

Your position emanates from scriptural ignorance.

Our sun was created before creation 'day' one, according to Gen 1...

No, actually it was day four.

Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:3 just says "Light"

 

[thecreationtutor]

Jeremiah talks about God sitting on the circle of the earth - Isaiah 40:22

 

[RowdyRoddy]

Jeremiah talks about God sitting on the circle of the earth - Isaiah 40:22

yeah, a circle is flat but I don't think there was a Hebrew word for sphere.

 

[kingerik]

But that means then that I will be condemn to hell because I do not think I am capable of having the faith that you do

Uhhh...No...I'm saying you can go to Hell because it was your choice too.

 

[Bowman]

I'm afraid that's quite a stretch. I think the verse is allegory/metaphor.

It provides the perfect analogy for the shape of the earth.

 

[Bowman]

No, actually it was day four.

Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:3 just says "Light"

Gen 1.16 is in the past tense....its parenthetical and describes why the sun and moon where created in the past....and that is for time keeping and regulation of the bio-clocks of the advanced life to follow...

 

[RowdyRoddy]

Gen 1.16 is in the past tense....its parenthetical and describes why the sun and moon where created in the past....and that is for time keeping and regulation of the bio-clocks of the advanced life to follow...

Where in the Bible does it explain this? Is there a disclaimer somewhere that I missed?

It seems people interpret the Bible sometimes to mean what THEY want.

 

[Bowman]

Where in the Bible does it explain this? Is there a disclaimer somewhere that I missed?

It seems people interpret the Bible sometimes to mean what THEY want.

Its a simple plain reading of the text.

The vantage point for the Genesis narrative is from the surface of the earth, as established in Gen 1.2.

Most people miss this, and start attempting to interpret the narrative from the vantage point of the cosmos....