Did a tiny peek at firmament yesterday, and found this little nugget.
From the Vulgate firmamentum, which is used as the translation of the Hebrew raki'a. This word means simply "expansion". It denotes the space or expanse like an arch appearing immediately above us. They who rendered raki'a by firmamentum regarded it as a solid body. The language of Scripture is not scientific but popular, and hence we read of the sun rising and setting, and also here the use of this particular word. It is plain that it was used to denote solidity as well as expansion. It formed a division between the waters above and the waters below (Genesis 1:7). The raki'a supported the upper reservoir (Psalm 148:4). It was the support also of the heavenly bodies (Genesis 1:14), and is spoken of as having "windows" and "doors" (Genesis 7:11; Isaiah 24:18; Malachi 3:10) through which the rain and snow might descend.
It looks like the biblical translators injected their own ideas into the translation. I think that historically, up to a point (aka Copernicus?) the Western concept of the universe was the earth at the center of the whole system, with the sun moon and stars rotating around it, and the only way they could conceive that as working was if those things were all held in place by some sort of firm structure (material spheres). Hence, oh yeah, let's translate this as 'firmament'.
But they also could NOT have conceived intellectually that a plane weighing 20 tons could fly. Or that wireless communication could exist. etc.
Note: the earth is the center of the system, just NOT materially. From the viewpoint of the Creator, the Earth IS the center of his heart and love, because this is where his children dwell. But materially, no. The earth resides as one component in a number of much larger systems....
We have cameras every where down here but can‘t manage a few on the „space“ shuttle for as they are flying through the firmament? All we have is crappy cgi? I don‘t buy it.
Most translations show the firmament is solid or FIRM.
Shouldn’t those tires have exploded being in a vacuum stronger than anything we can create here on Earth? Elon said it was a regular Tesla. What about all the other pressurized systems? Are they ultimate vacuum proof too? LOL
And as Elon said, you know it’s real cause it looks so fake. ;-)
We should have THOUSANDS of great videos but here we are, a car with special tires for space. Unbelievable.
Like I said, due to Ignorance, people inject their own Opinions into almost everything they know nothing about, and come up with the silliest of ideas, hence, Flat Head Earth Conspiracy Theory....
Did a tiny peek at firmament yesterday, and found this little nugget.
sauce: https://biblehub.com/topical/f/firmament.htm
It looks like the biblical translators injected their own ideas into the translation. I think that historically, up to a point (aka Copernicus?) the Western concept of the universe was the earth at the center of the whole system, with the sun moon and stars rotating around it, and the only way they could conceive that as working was if those things were all held in place by some sort of firm structure (material spheres). Hence, oh yeah, let's translate this as 'firmament'.
But they also could NOT have conceived intellectually that a plane weighing 20 tons could fly. Or that wireless communication could exist. etc.
Note: the earth is the center of the system, just NOT materially. From the viewpoint of the Creator, the Earth IS the center of his heart and love, because this is where his children dwell. But materially, no. The earth resides as one component in a number of much larger systems....
We have cameras every where down here but can‘t manage a few on the „space“ shuttle for as they are flying through the firmament? All we have is crappy cgi? I don‘t buy it.
Most translations show the firmament is solid or FIRM.
Here you go. Not NASA, though I expect you'll label this as CGI as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
Shouldn’t those tires have exploded being in a vacuum stronger than anything we can create here on Earth? Elon said it was a regular Tesla. What about all the other pressurized systems? Are they ultimate vacuum proof too? LOL
And as Elon said, you know it’s real cause it looks so fake. ;-)
We should have THOUSANDS of great videos but here we are, a car with special tires for space. Unbelievable.
What makes you think those tires were pressurized? The whole car was mounted, they could have easily just sent it up with the valve stems removed.
You've made my entire case for me. Thanks. Next time, THINK.
Like I said, due to Ignorance, people inject their own Opinions into almost everything they know nothing about, and come up with the silliest of ideas, hence, Flat Head Earth Conspiracy Theory....