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Venus?



The following is from another source:

The degree to which the Bible does record actual events can perhaps never
be exactly ascertained. We read in Joshua 10:12-14:

Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley
of Ajalon.

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
arranged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of
Jasher? So the sun stood still, in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
go down about a whole day.

And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.

Our first reaction to this would be to say that the fine bold metaphor of
the poet of the Book of Jasher has been vulgarized by an overcredulous and
unimaginative prose commentator into a pointless miracle. Yet Immanuel
Velikovsky, a writer with still a considerable vogue, has written books to
show that this event, along with an equally improbably story about
Hezekiah in II Kings 20, did take place in much the way described, the
cause being, he tells us, the settling of the new planet Venus into its orbit.

Stop laughing for a second and think if there is even the remotest
possibility that this Venus story has any basis in science of any kind.

Now continue laughing.

Comments?


Jim Green
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