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Originally Posted by James Hutchins
shaped like a ball
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How often have we heard: "In Isaiah the shape of the world is described using the best words they had and they didn't have words to describe ball-shaped objects." Here is the passage they're referring to, in context.
Isaiah 40:18-23 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Isaiah is relating what God has told him. Some people adore idols, Isaiah explains, fancying that special magic "energy" resides in cast and gilded statues adorned with silver chains. Not everyone can afford goldsmiths, Isaiah continues, so they get a lump of wood and carve that but even then a cunning workman is needed to bolt the thing down so that it doesn't fall over. Do they really think it created the world? Or can save lives? It can't even stop itself from falling off the shelf!
Now compare God. He observes us and even though we're tiny from His perspective He sees across the full compass of the earth. He arranges the stars any way He likes, to suit His purpose. What lump of wood can say that? Or say or do anything? When we refer to a circle of friends we don't mean that they're round. We don't mean they're spherical. Rectangular prism? Tetrahedron? Weird morphing thing there's no word for even in Esperanto?
NO. Because the circle of one's friends does not refer to their shape at all.
God is not a weird morphing thing. He knows the shape of the earth and Isaiah
DID have a word for ball-shaped objects. He uses it in the very same book! Don't these wretches read anything before spouting off such easily refuted arguments? Here is the text concerned, again showing context.
Isaiah 22:15-21 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
Here God is speaking directly through Isaiah. The treasurer seems to have been skimming, diverting funds to what we'd call a private mausoleum. Glorifying oneself in that way is unacceptable to God and here He's announcing that Eliakim will be replacing Shebna with advanced prejudice. Being tossed like a ball is something a child would understand and impossible to convey without a word for ball-shaped objects.
God is always clear. Just read The Bible.
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