The illustration shown here is with a flat earth on the back of the elephants, riding on the turtle. But the answer is, there are turtles all the way down.” And before the questioner could point out the obvious problem she said: “Aha, I know what you are going to say. ![]() There is that joke: A woman, who believed that the elephants and the turtle actually held up the earth, was asked what held up the turtle. ![]() Hindu mythology of the earth supported by 4 elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle. But the Bible does not describe a fanciful myth but describes what we know to be true. And then there is in the ancient Greek mythology, Atlas, a giant Titan god, who held the earth on his back. That is probably where they get their elephant god from. What is truly amazing though is the fact that the Scriptures have such a statement, when more than 3,000 years ago, around the time the book of Job was written, the ‘science’ of the day (actually myths in Hindu culture) taught the earth was held on the back of four giant male elephants who stood on the back of a giant female turtle. The direction we give to the north or south are convenient terms, but north is not any more important than south. But nothing holds it up, because there is no up or down in space. In the gravitational field of the sun it is actually falling towards the sun but because of its speed it moves in a stable orbit. Credit: NASA.įrom astronomy we know that the planet is hung on nothing. Earth suspended in space, a picture taken from space. ![]() One is that the Lord stretched the north over an empty place and the second is that He hung the earth upon nothing. He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing. What do we understand when we read Job 26:7?
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