Hi friends,
I will be starting these series of the Bible Validates Scientific Discoveries ! There is so much debate on slamming down the Holy Scriptures. The truth is if people have already decided what they want, that is okay, but it is good to bring clarity with the light of truth especially to the ones searching.
Genesis 2:7 describes the beginning of the Universe with Creation. Ironically, satan and his fallen angels were already roaming over the unformed Earth and Universe and will go into that later!
The first five books along with Job were said to be written by Moses. Job is considered the oldest book of Holy Scriptures found in the world. (Also the Rig Vedas is considered to be one of the oldest holy books).
The Bible is divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit so the men that wrote it were in one uniform thought, They even could have written it later, but received the inspiration of things before. Written by over 40 men with different backgrounds, over centuries, it seems as if one person is writing it, with no contradictions rather confirmations and prophesies over the ages coming true!
The author of Job was either a contemporary of Abraham, and perhaps even pre-dated Abraham. Job 40: 15–24 describes Behemoth, which sounds like a brontosaurus or similar dinosaur. It eats grass, it’s tail swings like a cedar (meaning it is not a hippo or an elephant since a small, ropey tail hardly resembles a gigantic cedar tree), it lived in shallow waters, and is large enough that river floods did not drown it!
Job 41: 1–34 also describes what could be a plesiosaur or other marine dinosaur with heavy thick scaled skin, sharp teeth, with limbs, so a whale or a shark can be ruled out. There is a passage which describes it as breathing fire, and this is a problem describing is simply as a dinosaur. There are references to Leviathan, a great beast from the sea, and the great dragon of old in later books of the Bible make it sound as though a Leviathan may have been possessed by a demon, or even Satan himself. Hermeneutically, this needs to be treated like the serpent in the garden. It was just a snake, but possessed by Satan. God first curses the snake to make it a reminder of what happened in the garden, but in the next sentence curses Satan with the protoevangellium.
After the flood, some dinosaurs had apparently survived whether in the Ark or in the seas (like all fish), although they are now extinct. The closer to the flood a written source claiming to encounter dinosaurs seems to be more credible. The Book of Job covers the Universe, from the planets, the cycle of winds, and is a very scientific book.
But we will start with Genesis, when God blew the breath of life into Man. One thought to ponder is Man was created out of dust and to dust he will return. Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. “By the breath of God it [the lump of clay] was transformed and became a nephesh, a soul. It is not said that man was supplied with a nephesh. Such as he is, man, in his total essence is a nephesh.” So humans basically are spiritual soulish beings, our flesh, our outer body is just our shell..and will return back to dust, as God formed it out of dust.
Rita F. Kurian (series to be continued)
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