TRUTH - 2 (SCIENTIFIC FACTS IN THE BIBLE - TAKEN FROM A FORWARDED EMAIL)

1. Only in recent years has science discovered that everything we see is composed of invisible atoms. Here, Scripture tells us that the

 "things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

2. At a time when it was believed that the earth sat on a large animal or a giant (1500 B.C.), the Bible spoke of the earth’s free float in space:

"He...hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7).

 3. The prophet Isaiah also tells us that the earth is round:

"It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth" (Isaiah 40:22).

 

This is not a reference to a flat disk, as some skeptic maintain, but to a sphere. Secular man discovered this 2,400 years later. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world. 

 4. God told Job in 1500 B.C.:

 "Can you send lightning’s, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?"(Job 38:35). 

The Bible here is making what appears to be a scientifically ludicrous statement - that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you know that radio waves travel at the speed of light? This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. 

 Science didn’t discover this until 1864 when "British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing" (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia).

 5. Science has discovered that stars emit radio waves, which are received on earth as a high pitch.

God mentioned this in Job 38:7:

"When the morning stars sang together..."

6. Solomon described a "cycle" of air currents two thousand years before scientists "discovered" them.

"The wind goes toward the south, and turns about unto the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits" (Ecclesiastes 1:6).

7. Science expresses the universe in five terms:

Time, Space, Matter, Power, and Motion. 

Genesis 1:1,2 revealed such truths to the Hebrews in 1450 B.C.:

"In the beginning [time] God created [power] the heaven [space] and the earth [matter] . . . And the Spirit of God moved [motion] upon the face of the waters." 

 The first thing God tells man is that He controls of all aspects of the universe.

8. The great biological truth concerning the importance of blood in our body’s mechanism has been fully comprehended only in recent years. Up until 120 years ago, sick people were "bled," and many died because of the practice. If you lose your blood, you lose your life. 

Yet Leviticus 17:11, written 3,000 years ago, declared that blood is the source of life:

 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."

 9. All things were made by Him (see John 1:3), including dinosaurs. Why then did the dinosaur disappear? 

The answer may be in Job 40:15–24.

 In this passage, God speaks about a great creature called "behemoth." Some commentators think this was a hippopotamus. However, the hippo’s tail isn’t like a large tree, but a small twig.

 Following are the characteristics of this huge animal: 

 It was the largest of all the creatures God made; was plant-eating (herbivorous); had its strength in its hips and a tail like a large tree. It had very strong bones, lived among the trees, drank massive amounts of water, and was not disturbed by a raging river.  He appears impervious to attack because his nose could pierce through snares, but Scripture says, 

"He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him."

 In other words, God caused this, the largest of all the creatures He had made, to become extinct.

10. Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who gave birth in hospitals. As many as 30 percent died after giving birth.  Semmelweis noted that doctors would examine the bodies of patients who died, then, without washing their hands, go straight to the next ward and examine expectant mothers.

This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic diseases was unknown. Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped to 2 percent. 

Look at the specific instructions God gave His people for when they encounter disease:

"And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself even days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean" (Leviticus 15:13). 

Until recent years, doctors washed their hands in a bowl of water, leaving invisible germs on their hands. However, the Bible says specifically to wash hands under "running water."

11. Luke 17:34–36 says the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur while some are asleep at night and others are working at daytime activities in the field. 

This is a clear indication of a revolving earth, with day and night at the same time.

With all these truths revealed in Scripture ,how could a thinking person deny that the Bible is supernatural in origin? There is no other book in any of the world’s religions that contains scientific truth. 

In fact, they contain statements that are clearly unscientific. Hank Hanegraff said, 

"Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence."