“He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.”
Job 26:7-10
To my way of thinking Job who lived somewhere between 2000 and 1000 BC. Gave a good description of the above photograph taken by Apollo sixteen.
Job never as far as we know looked through a telescope. He never had the vantage point of the Apollo astronauts or the other space probe photos shown above. Yet he was able to say
“He (God) spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”
Little quotes from the bible like these tell me that God is real. That God gave insight to ancient men who believed in him.
Job looked into the sky and unlike the Greeks who thought the universe was held up by Atlas. Job said the earth it was suspended on nothing.
He realized that water was suspended in clouds. And that there was a boundary between light and darkness.
All this in the middle bronze age. Quite something.
Think about it.
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