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To: andy_card
Daniel 4:7-8, "I saw a tree of great height at the center of the world. It was large and strong, with its top touching the heavens, and it could be seen from the ends of the earth." Explain to me how this is possible on a spherical earth.

It's 4:10, by the way. Daniel is telling of his dream. The dream was constructed to prophesy for Nebuchadnezzar, not to geologically describe the earth. In other dreams Daniel saw giant beasts etc., that were meant to be interpreted for the future. You're missing the point of these verses.

Matthew 4:8, "The devil took him (Jesus) to a very high mountain and displayed before him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence...." Ditto.

Satan is only allowed to be on the earth right now (and then) in the spirit. Therefore if Jesus and Satan were walking around while Jesus was fasting, they must've been in the spirit. Jesus was "God with us", He was able to go with Satan in this way.

Genesis 1:6-7, "Let there be a dome to divide the water and to keep it in two separate places... and it was done. So God made a dome, and it separated the water under it from the water above it." The author of Genesis 1 doesn't even understand rain!

There's water on Mars, the moon, everywhere. The water on other planets is separated from the water on earth. We've only penetrated a few miles into the earth's interior, there could be vast reserviors of water under the earth, and as a matter of fact scientists do believe there is a vast reservior under Malasia that holds as much water that is in the surface oceans.

Oh, aside from claiming that bats are birds, for example?

Where's this? The bible was written to teach how to know God. If it would've been written describing every scientific knowledge in the world it would not have been understood by anyone until our science caught up with it in the last few years. And there are still some things in it that science hasn't caught up to yet. The separation of waters may be one of those things. Gravity is a strange thing. There should be 0 gravity at the center of the earth. So is there anything at the center of the earth? Wouldn't anything at the center be drawn to the sides of the earth? Maybe. Maybe not.

62 posted on 10/11/2002 8:40:26 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: #3Fan
There's water on Mars, the moon, everywhere. The water on other planets is separated from the water on earth. We've only penetrated a few miles into the earth's interior, there could be vast reserviors of water under the earth, and as a matter of fact scientists do believe there is a vast reservior under Malasia that holds as much water that is in the surface oceans.

All this may be true. There is not, nor has there ever been, a dome of water hovering over the surface of the Earth.

Jesus was "God with us", He was able to go with Satan in this way.

My problem is one of physics. Assuming Jesus and Satan climbed to the top of the tallest mountain on earth (presumably much taller than, say, Everest), even then how were they able to view all of the nations on earth? You can't see the other side of the earth, no matter how high up you are, last time I checked.

65 posted on 10/11/2002 8:47:14 AM PDT by andy_card
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