Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.” (Matthew 13:52) NKJV
O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—
(1 Timothy 6:20) NKJV
We like wry humor here at Matty’s Paradigm. A double-dose of irony with a side of snark. Here’s the definition of what you call Astronomy after it’s been filtered through the lens of Biblical cosmology.
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They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
(Job 17:16) KJV
We’re on a downward descent into the heart of the earth. So far we have considered Biblical references to physical features of the crust and mantle. As we go deeper we pass into the great gulf, which could also be rendered mega chasm, which is the region in the interior of the earth which SciPop arbitrarily calls the liquid outer core.
| Usage | Transliteration | Scripture | March Post |
| Bars of the earth | erets beriach | Jonah 2:6 | 21 |
| Bars of the pit | bad sheol | Job 17:16 | 21 |
| Beams of his chambers | qarah mayim aliyyah | Psalms 104:3 | 21 |
| Great deep, depths | tehom | Proverbs 8:24 | 22 |
| Great gulf | chasma mega | Luke 16:26 | 21 |
| Pillars of the earth | matsuq erets | 1 Samuel 2:8 | 21 |
| Waters under the earth | mayim tachath erets | Deuteronomy 5:8 | 22 |
The pillars of the earth are incorporated into a 3D model of a Biblical spherical earth in which they are part of earth’s internal structure. They don’t require us to believe that the earth is flat.
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And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
(Genesis 2:8) KJV
This post is part of the WHY? daily devotional for March
Devolution is the process of genetic change over time by which the animals saved on Noah’s ark gave rise to the distribution of current biodiversity.
The probability that four habits evolved in 620 plant families is a number too big to display in Google Sheets. The probability that four habits were created with 620 flower types is not that big. Occam’s razor that.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
( 1 Timothy 6:20-21 ) KJV
This post is part of the WHY? daily devotional for January.
We have identified 5 leaps of faith in the theoretical foundation of popular science (SciPop). The scientific community considers these to be axioms but they are assumptions based on circumstantial evidence.
