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Picture of firmament godly play3/6/2024 The belief in the solid dome-like firmament supporting the waters above the earth (Gen. Certain structural elements of this ancient cosmology lasted into modern times and were defended vehemently from Scripture. What came to be known as the Ptolemaic model of the cosmos was observably true and useful as long as no one needed to launch satellites into space. For millenia it served man well and told him all he needed to know in his interactions with the rest of the universe. This geocentric model remained “true” and useful even after the fifth century BC when just about everybody learned the earth was a sphere thanks to Greek science. What makes a scientific model “true” or “not true” depends on whether it is predictively useful.Īt the time Moses wrote Genesis the ancient Hebrew view of the world as a flat disc surrounded by the primordial oceans with the dome-like firmament above was, for all practical purposes, “true” since it was useful for their needs at the time. Science is made up of tentative truths which can be corrected as more is learned. Why not?Ĭosmological models, like all scientific truths, are not absolute truths. Try reading these verses with ancient eyes as the original audience would have read them…ĭoes this mean Scripture taught error? No. Taken literally they simply express themselves in the cosmology of the time they were written. They don’t teach Old Earth Creationism either. The Scriptures do not teach Young Earth Creationism.
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