Flat Earthers logic... Actually saw this, today. 🙄
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I was construing the "empty space" to be the desolation of the Arctic cap, signifying the North Pole, implying the point where the Earth would rotate if dangled. Remember this is inspired writing and God may give man words that have no clear meaning in the times in which they were given.
Also, where would you "hang the Earth" except in some sort of space?
Good question! Erets (earth) also means dirt/ground (just like in our language and for the same reason!).
It is reasonably clear that the author intended to say that the north (the land/country/place) is stretched over the empty cavern of sheol.
It makes a LOT more sense when you understand the jewish conception of the world. Here is a diagram which should help!
https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/doc/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199209163.001.0001/graphic003.gif
Below is the book this diagram came from, however you will need a library card in order to access this link : https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199209163.001.0001/acprof-9780199209163-chapter-2
The best that can be said is that there is ambiguity. But "stretching out the north over the empty place" is still consistent with the current reality: if the "north" is taken as a polar direction, it is honestly over an empty place. Likewise, if God hangs the Earth "upon nothing," that is consistent with it being rotating (hanging) like a pendant in a void. If you try to attach this to ancient misunderstandings about the world, it will illuminate nothing. If you try to see the truthful meaning in ancient words, it will be a revelation.
That’s the whole point! It honestly IS over an empty place - sheol! This is of course the ancient jewish view which is the one the author had, not the scifi fiction we currently suffer from due to mass media indoctrination.
The heavens aren’t empty! That’s insane AND anti-biblical!
Also, it would be the south pole OVER the “empty outer space” - NOT the north (which would be UNDER it)!
I appreciate your imaginative rationalization, but it isn’t consistent with the text - nor the meanings of the words (which are known)! The pendant/spinning bit is also inventive, but completely unsupported by the text as well. It’s also contradicted by genesis and heaps of other references. That’s why the jewish conception of the world was/is as it is depicted in the diagram I shared!
If you discard the (known) meanings of the words, you discard the bible :( As I said, much is lost through translation and you are adding insult to injury through such poetry!
Only if the words are correct/true! If you discard the meanings of the words to playfully interpret as you whim, you will and can never understand them!
Genesis is not a tract on geophysics or cosmology. That would be incomprehensible to a man in the era of Moses. Taken as figures of speech, the descriptions of the Earth conform to poetry, known for long. But differs greatly from the cosmology of Egypt, with which Moses was familiar. It is remarkably consistent with the picture we are now familiar with. The Jewish diagram may be historical, but it is grossly in error with the facts of the situation, as I hope you appreciate.
"Hang" anything, and the properties of a dangling object are inescapable (free rotation about an axis).