Re: Examples of God accomodating ancient "science" in the Bible?

 On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Loren Haarsma wrote:

> I'm looking for some ideas and some references.

> So it occured to me that it might help to give several more examples of
> God accomodating himself in his spoken revelation to the "science" of the
> times of the original audience.
>
> I listed some examples below. My question is: can you think of other
> passages?
>
>
> Loren Haarsma

pillars of the earth: I Samuel 2:8, Job 9:6, Psalm 75:3
pillars of the heavens: Job 26:11

I don't know the cosmology in detail. Perhaps these were supposed to hold
up the earth and/or the sky.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Wed Feb 2 10:36:54 2005