Call_of_the_Wild
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Have you even bother to read the verses (5-9) surrounding 9:8?
Just did...and?
Job is simply sprouting or ranting utterly meaningless rhetoric, which I cannot even for moment take seriously.
Um, he is talking about the omnipotence of the Almighty God. Pretty clear to me.
Sure, mountains grow or fall naturally, and they have nothing to do with some angry gods. What I don't understand is why would any god show anger against any mountain? It is senseless.
I can't speak for other religions, their religious text, and their doctrines.
Sure, earthquake occurred, for any number of natural reasons. But "pillars"?
In many Near Eastern myths, as well as Egyptian myths, there are either pillars that hold up the Earth itself, or the pillars that hold up the heaven. Judging by the 2nd reference to "pillars" in Job, it is clear that God would shake the pillars of heaven.
I have not seen any "pillars" that hold up the heavens. Have you?
In verse 10 it clearly states that "He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted". Maybe the pillars that are mentioned is metaphorical and not to be taken in a literal sense.
Clearly, this is reference to the firmament, so the pillars were the vault or dome, which is the sky. According to an earlier verse in chapter 26, it say: Why would Job think the earth "suspended", let alone "over nothing"?
What? Isn't planet earth rotating in empty space??? And since the word "suspend means "to hang", isn't it hanging on nothing?? The words of Job are very accurate with our observations of the earth.
Scientifically impossible.
But yet, its happening.
And lastly, the constellations:
Stars are not made of constellations. Constellations are simply abstract patterns that ancient people have assign to the groups of stars. The reality is that the many of the stars in the supposed constellations have nothing to do with one another, other than how we view the stars.
This has nothing to do with anything :thud: