Bible course (5 mins.): lffi lesson 03 point 4 (th lesson 8).
PUBLISHER: Very good Juan. Let's go to point 4.
STUDENT: Very well Alberto, let's see it.
PUBLISHER: To begin with... we are going to watch this short video about what was thought of the Earth and we will see that science, after many years, has confirmed what the Bible already said... (... video...) What do you think of the video ?
STUDENT: It is very interesting Alberto. I didn't know that the Bible already said this so many thousands of years ago...
PUBLISHER: That's right, and note that this is a fairly recent discovery compared to when it was written...
STUDENT: Yes, it is impossible that the men who wrote the Bible knew this if it were not because God told them...
PUBLISHER: Very good Juan. And keep in mind that they were normal men, they were not researchers or scientists... like others who came much later...
STUDENT: Yes, I remember their names from studying it at school… they were very famous…
PUBLISHER: Yes, and at that time there was fear of writing what could be the truth because it went against that time and could lead to death...
STUDENT: It's true, there was a lot of fear...
PUBLISHER: The Bible comes from God, it is exact and it was written by divine inspiration... many things that are written go against what was thought and could lead to the death of the writer, but what happens? Why does the Bible itself risk telling fundamental truths?
STUDENT: Because unlike other human books, this one does come from God…
PUBLISHER: And it's just possible how your writers could know that the Earth was not resting on anything...
STUDENT: While everyone else thought so, even with very funny theories like the tortoise... it's amazing that he thought that...
PUBLISHER: Back then it was even a valid theory… when the Bible already said much earlier in Job 26:7 the truth… do you mind reading it?
STUDENT: It says, "He stretches out the northern sky over the void, suspends the earth over nothing."
PUBLISHER: "Why is it surprising that the Bible says the Earth is suspended above nothing?"
STUDENT: What we were talking about and what you said about the turtle theory back then being valid... now it seems crazy and it's even funny... but of course, at that time... reading this text was crazy...
PUBLISHER: And what happened to that madness?
STUDENT: Which science has confirmed to be true.
PUBLISHER: Can you imagine what it will have meant for the veracity and authority of the Bible when science confirms what the Bible already said in this simple way?
STUDENT: It had to be impressive…
PUBLISHER: Very good. The Bible, as I have told you, is more a history book than a scientific book.
STUDENT: Yes, I understand. But the few times she talks about science, she is accurate.
PUBLISHER: That's right. In a video that we have already seen, we have said that the Bible answers people's fundamental questions, and what does this generate?
STUDENT: I remember it, well peace of mind and hope knowing and knowing what will happen in the future.
PUBLISHER: Well, there are fundamental questions that have to do with science. And that's why the Bible gives us the answer like this from Earth and space. But questions, for example, about what the structure of an ant is like or its morphology... well...
STUDENT: Yes, I don't think anyone is going to die for not knowing this...
PUBLISHER: And if you are passionate about this world and want to know about it, there will already be scientific books that talk extensively about it...
STUDENT: Yes, like anything else…
PUBLISHER: The Bible is already very extensive…can you imagine that it stops to tell in detail how God has created all things?
STUDENT: Yeah, it doesn't make sense, I get it. This is what science is for.
PUBLISHER: Exactly. And this does not mean that science is against the Bible. In fact, everything related to the Bible has confirmed it. Moreover, think of one thing...
STUDENT: Tell me Alberto.
PUBLISHER: Jehovah has created everything, he knows how everything works and he doesn't have to explain it to us. But, unlike animals and others, he has endowed us with intelligence… so, Jehovah wants us to study his wonderful creation…
STUDENT: That's an interesting point of view...
PUBLISHER: Put yourself in the role of a parent… don't you like to teach your child things? But many times you don't explain everything to him, do you? If you don't give him a series of guidelines and then... what do you love to discover how your child is learning new things?
STUDENT: Yes, it's very comforting. And for himself too...
PUBLISHER: Well, in the same way, Jehovah has given us a series of guidelines on fundamental aspects. And he has endowed us with a brain so that we can study his marvelous creation and revel in its complexity. That is, it has also given us science...
STUDENT: Sure, and as a father that he is. He already knows everything about what he wants us to learn... that's why science can never contradict the Bible...
PUBLISHER: One of the last discoveries just 200 years ago was getting the water cycle right. And this was already explained by Job 36:27,28, do you read it?
STUDENT: It says, “He makes the drops of water rise; steam condenses to form rain; then the clouds pour it down precipitating it on humanity.”
PUBLISHER: Isn't this the water cycle?
STUDENT: Yes.
PUBLISHER: Do you think it's simple, what catches your attention?
STUDENT: Very simple, and this is what strikes me the most. As an alto so complex that it has been difficult to study, it is summarized in just two lines and it explains well what is produced.
PUBLISHER: Very good. With what we have talked about, the examples we have given and the texts of Job, does it help you to trust more in what the Bible says?
STUDENT: Very much Alberto, I want to continue seeing more…
PUBLISHER: Well, let's go to point 5, Juan.
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