nPeace
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There is a reason I can reasonably disagree with this.No idea what they meant then, but I doubt the visual ability of the ancients was any better than ours or these galaxies were any closer so as to be visible, even if the sky at night was rather clearer than it is for most of us now. As mentioned, they could have meant constellations or whatever. And I'm not dismissing the fact that some things were known, but just in no way comparable as to what we know now, and as to corresponding with reality. It's just this knowledge gap that seems so suspicious, and where there are other explanations as to where religious texts came from - in my view.
One reason is that scientists are only discovering what was already known by men - not because of any scientific expertise on the part of those ancient writers, but because of the source of their knowledge.
It's clear they were not discovering things, just from pure observation.
Scripture says of them...
(2 Peter 1:20-21) 20 For you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit.
So, not only could they write things that would take place centuries into the future, they could also write about things that had not been discovered, until recent.
(Isaiah 46:9-11) 9 Remember the first things of a long time ago, that I am the Divine One and there is no other God, nor anyone like me; 10 the One telling from the beginning the finale, and from long ago the things that have not been done; the One saying, ‘My own counsel will stand, and everything that is my delight I shall do’; 11 the One calling from the sunrising a bird of prey, from a distant land the man to execute my counsel. I have even spoken [it]; I shall also bring it in. I have formed [it], I shall also do it.
I was watching a few videos on FTL (faster than light), and I found it interesting that man is here trying to figure out what... if anything, is faster than the speed of light, and if it's possible to achieve it... and I am thinking to myself... "Well this is mind boggling. How could a two footed piny "grasshopper", with a piny brain with such intelligence, not have worked it out, already?"
It's obvious that man isn't the only life form, and if they think there must exist some type 2... 3... 4... 7 civilization, wouldn't there be knowledge far superior, and way more advanced?
Would it not be expected that life-forms exist, that can tell man why something is able to move faster that light, and actually demonstrate it?
Why would man not think that he is actually being observed?
See Psalms 139.
(Isaiah 55:9) “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So my ways are higher than your ways And my thoughts than your thoughts.
(Luke 22:43) Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. . . See Daniel 9:20-23
Some suggestions on why light travels so fast, is that light is protons, which is a constant.
They suggest wormholes. and instantaneous travel.
I would think, in my own little wisdom, protons are not the only form of 'matter' out there, which man has discovered.
A form of 'energy', or 'matter', which surpasses that, would move faster than light.
Does such exist? Why not.
(Hebrews 1:7) . . .He makes his angels spirits. . .
Many things are there to be discovered. However, I believe, because of this reason, man will not discover them, nor get to know of them.