Flat Earthers logic... Actually saw this, today. 🙄
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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).
Right, it is vastly more than that... It contains those things, because is is true - right?!
Not really, they are largely the same / compatible. That is also addressed in the book I linked to - you may enjoy/benefit from it!
But the firmament hangs as a tent above us... Hang does not always imply rotation at all (hang a painting, hang a drape etc.)! They had words to express this presumed rotation, but chose not to :(. The bible teaches that the lights in the sky move - not the earth. If you need more unambiguous biblical passage that unequivocally establishes this - let me know! It’s all there in the book, which is how that italian astronomer created his diagram!
Well, you are welcome to go back in time to some era that knows nothing about space, the planets, the atmosphere, etc. The diagram is overtaken by factual discovery. (By the way, we SEE that the lights in the sky move. But the reason is that the Earth rotates. Ever been on a carousel?)
You mean like the era when job (and the rest of the bible) was written?
They knew a whole lot more than we give them credit for! There is some amazing stuff hidden away in the bible - for instance did you know that they knew that mountains have roots (it is in one of the subsequent passages from the one you cited, I came across it while doing further research.)? That’s something very few people know today, and even fewer know why!
So we are taught! However, it ain't necessarily so - sportin’ life
Would you care to discuss and explore that perspective further?
I disagree! Would you care to discuss the reasons (and science) why?
I have!
Because we experience the accelerations of rotation. Because we observe it from orbit. If you knew science at all, you would know this. I'm not interested in debating with ignorance. The creation is God's Word as much as scripture, and he has given us reason with which to understand it. There is no conflict.