Does not matter what they believed....it ain’t solid....
The heavens used to be called the spheres and it was thought that they were solid. So this makes sense that the people writing the Bible thought the sky was solid.
Jeepers! I hope not, for then we’ll then have to figure out how many angels can dance on it.
God created Heaven and Earth
Other that that, nothing else matters. Those who try to present the Bible as literal historic or scientific work, in all Books, in all arguments, actually harm the Christian Faith.
How in the world would you explain, to a largely illiterate, totally scientifically ignorant population concepts like DNA, Astronomy, Nuclear Physics and everything else you would need to know, to understand Creation?
Those who are offended that we might have come “from monkeys” have no problem believing that we came from “Humus” or dirt, formed from decayed plants, animals and MONKEYs?
Again, do not use the Bible for purposes it was not intended to serve.
The answer is “yes”... wait, what was the question? ;)
Anyone here recall how to use a concordance? I’d do it, but I don’t recall where mine is packed away..... these types of questions are rather easily resolved by looking at other instances where the same word was used, by looking especially at the FIRST such instance and you can normally discern from the context which is the right translation of the original word
the genesis story is pretty interesting how closely it matches scientific theory.
everything comes from nothing, everything is formless but then given form. New life forms are introduced to the world in stages (plants, fish, land animals, humans)
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The ancient Israelites may certainly have thought in that fashion. However, I think the fault is in their understanding and (most assuredly) not God’s Word. Basically, air has mass and volume. While it is not as solid as a rock, it is definitely not a vacumn.
Firmament means expanse...What’s intriguing is not the firmament but the massive body of water above it...Above the Solar System...
I once read a theory that prior to the flood the earth was surrounded by a water canopy. This canopy was responsible for filtering solar damage that shortened our life spans after the flood. It was an interesting read, but as I remember, the volume calculations just didn’t fit.
Genesis is a book of faith — not teaching.
No.
Genesis 1 shows that there was a spherical canopy of water above the earth.
Genesis 6 describes the falling of that water canopy to the earth, as well as the breaking up of the earth’s crust and the fountains of the deep being opened.