The Problem of Unscientific Expressions
"ends of the earth;" "four corners of the
earth" "sun rises and sets."
Answer:
Think of the vast audience over thousands of years to read this and we ourselves use such expressions. Why find fault with
the Bible?
Bible was written for all men in every age and in every condition.
The mass of men have not had scientific training. An intelligent scientist would address his audience in the language of appearance, in order to be understood. The Bible does the same thing. Otherwise the Bible would have to be written in the terms of final science, and could not be understood even today.
Dr. Rimmer told this story when he was with a group engaged in archeological work. They were sitting by a camp fire. A young medical student introduced an ingenius game. He gave to each contestant a line from the familiar old nursery song--"There was an old black man, and his name was Ned, and he died long, long ago." The rule was that each contestant should reduce his line to the best scientific language.
The man who won had this line: "He had no hair on the
top of his head in the place where the hair ought to grow." His diction
read as follows:
"He possessed no follicle appendages on the cutaneous
apex of his cranial structure, anterior to the sagittal suture and posterior to
the lambdoidal suture, where said follicle appendage habitually
germinate."
Dr. Rimer remarked, "What a way to say that the man was
bald." New Testament was written in Koine Greek -- language of the common man.
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