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1 | How should be interpret Joshua 10:12-14? | Josh 10:12 | Searcher56 | 5112 | ||
God could of done a number of things. It is a question He'll be asked by many. Have NASA computers really proven Joshua's 'long day'? No. They deny that it ever took place. Plus theere is a need for a starting point of time, too. The story goes back to Charles A. L. Totten’s "Joshua’s Long Day and the Dial of Ahaz: A Scientific Vindication" (1890), before computers. |
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2 | Why not literally? | Josh 10:12 | Lionstrong | 5135 | ||
I submit this as a question for further discussion: Why can't we interpret it literally? If we start from the Bible as our sole source of truth (sola scriptura) we could not deduce from the Scriptural data that the earth rotates on its axis. In fact mathematically and logically one could accurately predict the positions of points of light in the heavens if the sun, moon and stars rotated around the earth and the earth were a fixed point. In fact do you really know that the sun didn't stand still? Do you really know that the sun doesn't rise? Do you really know that the earth rotates on its axis? Or are these questions such an affront to your unexamined presuppositions that you immediately dismiss them as ludicrous? I know the Bible uses figures of speech, but as serious Bible students isn't the only reason you believe that the sun standing still is a figure of speech is that you believe what you've been taught about the earth rotating on its axis? Because Science says so. Someone has said, "In the popular mind, 'It has been scientifically proved' has replaced the Biblical formula 'Thus says the Lord.'" Lionstrong |
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3 | Why not literally? | Josh 10:12 | Makarios | 5150 | ||
There is no reason why we cannot interpret Joshua 10:12 literally! In fact, we must interpret this literally. But we will always be in speculation as far as how God actually chose to carry out this miracle. I believe that it did happen and in the way that is described in the Bible even though I have no knowledge of any archaeological findings that would help prove the skeptics wrong. Science is nothing compared to God's Holy Word. If you have God and live in His Spirit and in His Word, then you have gained so much more than you could have by attaining an understanding of science. I don't believe that reckoning the phrase "the sun standing still" is a figure of speech obtained from this verse, either. I believe that these events occurred just because they are mentioned in the Bible. That is enough for me. | ||||||
4 | Why not literally? | Josh 10:12 | Hank | 5179 | ||
Yes indeed, Nolan! Why not take God at His word? Even if science could "prove" the event of Joshua 10:12-13 one way or the other, chances are that it would at some time reverse itself. God and His word are eternal, unchanging and true. "Where were you," asks God of Job, "when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding." [Job 38:4] --Hank | ||||||