Nasa & the Bible - very interesting!
May 11, 2008
My mom sent me this and I think it bears sharing. Enjoy!
NASA & THE BIBLE
I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. Thought this was pretty amazing and interesting!!
For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have a hard
time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible, here's something that shows God's awesome creation, and that He is still in control.
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called "myth" in the Bible is true?
Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development.
They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now. We have to know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbits.
We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down.
They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong
with either the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards.
They called in the service department to check it out, and they said, 'What's wrong?' Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time.
They scratched their heads and tore their hair out.. There was no answer.
Finally a Christian man on the team said, 'You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, 'Show us. '
He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense.'
There they found the Lord saying to Joshua,
'Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before Thee.'
Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy! And if darkness fell, they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right... 'The sun
stood still and the moon stayed and lasted not to go down about a whole day!'
(Joshua 10:12-13)
The astronauts and scientists said, There is the missing day! They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close, but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes, not a whole day.
They read the Bible, and there it was about [approximately] a day. These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1000 years from now.
Forty minutes had to be found because
it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. As the Christian employee
thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS.
The scientists told him he was out ofhis mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings that told
of the following story: Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet
Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign
as proof. Isaiah said 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?'
Hezekiah said, 'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees.' Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD! Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes!
Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings
make the missing day in the universe! Isn't it amazing?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and
2 Kings 20:9-11.
Joshua 10:8, 12, 13
8 The LORD said
to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand.
Not one of them will be able to withstand you."
12 On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon,
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon."
13 So the sun stood still,
and the moon stopped,
till the nation avenged itself on [a] its enemies,
as it is written in the Book of Jashar.
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
2 Kings 20:9-11
9 Isaiah answered, "This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?"
10 "It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps," said Hezekiah. "Rather, have it go back ten steps."
11 Then the prophet Isaiah called upon the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
Hollo,
I reassessed an e-mail with a similar if not identical article on the NASA missing day. I have been searching the web for some hard facts on this matter and have not found any, just a lot of people trying to disproving it. Now I am a born-again spirit filled Christian that believes in a literal translation of the bible and that sound science can account for all of the claims in that can truly be put the test. But as I see it science has not proven this yet and may never prove this. I am not saying that this did not happen just that science has not shown it yet, to my knowledge.
Posted by: Tim Smith | May 13, 2008 at 05:45 PM
Hi Tim, Thanks for your intelligent, thoughtful response. I found the story interesting, but didn't bother researching it.
Let us know if you do find data to prove it! I just liked it.:)
JOY
Posted by: Joy Kennelly | May 15, 2008 at 02:34 PM