There is a vault above (Genesis 1:6-7) and the sun, moon, and stars are placed in this vault (Genesis 1:14-19). Rather the Bible uses concepts familiar to the original audience to describe the world.
While God could have embedded our modern understanding of cosmology into the text, there is no indication that he has done so.
Kyle Greenwood has a nice book Scripture and Cosmology for those who wish to dig into this a little deeper. Human understanding of cosmology has changed through the years and these changes are reflected in Scripture and in the writings of Christians over the last two millennia. This is fundamental to our belief that the Bible is the word of God.īut is there a scientific concordance or correspondence between statements about the physical world in Scripture and physical reality as we understand it today? Denis's answer, and mine, is not necessarily. There is a spiritual correspondence between the teachings of Scripture and spiritual reality. " The primary purpose of the Bible is to deal with our relationship with God and to make us realize that we have damaged it though our own sinfulness." (p. When reading the Bible when and where should we expect to find correspondence or concordance with fact? Lamoureux argues that the Bible is a book of redemption. Is the universe expansive, with stars and galaxies light years away from us?ĭoes a 21st century vision of the solar system or the galaxy shape your reading of Genesis or the Psalms?ĭenis Lamoureux digs into these kinds of questions in the next couple of chapters of his book The Bible & Ancient Science introducing concepts in biblical interpretation. Is the earth roughly spherical, orbiting around the much more massive sun, with a far less massive moon orbiting the earth? The skies proclaim the work of his hands.
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