How can christians rationalize Job 37:18?

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How can christians rationalize Job 37:18?

Shouldn't this verse be the last nail in the infalibility creed?

Job 37:18

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking glass?

This verse reflects old babylonian (where jews took their superstitions) that the sky is solid and firm. Hence the word "firmamento".


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Is that the King James

Is that the King James version? I have the New world translation:

"With him can you beat out the skies, Hard like a molten mirror?"

But anyway, a mirror, molten or not, has somewhat higher density than the atmosphere...


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I just looked it up and it

I just looked it up and it is the Kings James Version.

This 37th chapter of Job really is a good example of the God of the Gaps. Ancient people did not understand what thunder and lightning was so they attributed it to god. Who sends the rain? God. Who freezes the water with his breath? God. Smiling

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca