HOPE CHAP 40

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"O Jehovah, do not remain far away. You are my strength; hurry to help me." - Isaiah 46:11

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"The green grass dries up, the blossom withers, but the word of our God endures forever" - Isaiah 40:8

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"The psalmist wrote of God: “He heals the brokenhearted; he binds up their wounds.” (Ps. 147:3) Yes, Jehovah cares for those who are having problems—whether physical or emotional. Today, Jehovah is eager to comfort us and to soothe our emotional wounds. (Ps. 34:18; Isa. 57:15) He gives us wisdom and strength so that we can cope with any troubles we may face.—Jas. 1:5" - w17 7/15 p. 19 par 5

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CHAPTER 41

• Cyrus A Deliverer Called Forth [41:2-4]
• Abraham, Jehovah's Friend [41: 8]
• Jehovah Challenges the Nations [41: 9]

CONTINUE... CHAP 41 Verses 10-11 >>

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"The message in Isaiah chapter 41 was originally addressed to God’s ancient people. They had sinned to such an extent that Jehovah decided to execute judgment on them by having them taken into exile in Babylon. (Isa. 39:6, 7) Still, God was thinking ahead to the time when he would deliver those who would repent and return to him! (Isa. 41:8, 9; 49:8) Jehovah shows the same largeheartedness today toward those who sincerely want to merit his favor.—Ps. 51:1" - w16 7/15 p. 18

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#QUESTION: Can the Hebrew word "chuwg" legitimately be translated as "globe" or "sphere"?

Skeptics point out that many bibles refer to the circle of the earth and automatically assume the word translated here "circle" (in hebrew: chuwg) conveys the concept of a flat, circular, pancake-like earth. However it should be noted that the Hebrews had no separate word for a three-dimensional circle ie a "sphere" thus the Hebrew term word covered circle in its two AND three dimensional sense. In short, if in Hebrew you were discribing the shape of an orange you would have used the word "chuwg" and if describing the shape of the earth you would use the same word; this would not mean you thought the orange was flat only that that would be the only word to describe its shape.

Since a globe seen seen from above - as the context of the verse indicates - appears as a circle, translators therefore have taken no liberties translating Isaiah 40:22 as "sphere"¤ or "globe or "circle" (seen 2 dimensionally) all of which are acceptable and scientifically accurate renditions of the verse.

The Douay Douay-Rheims Bible:
"It is he that sitteth upon the GLOBE of the earth, [...]." [Caps mine];

New World Translation
There is One who dwells above the circle*[Ftn or SPHERE] of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.

** An alternative word "duwr" is not exclusively a word for sphere: Is. 29:3 reads "And I will camp against thee round about [duwr], and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee." Obviously in this case "duwr" = a circle (to encircle) is not a ball. Thus the writers choice in Isaiah 40 NOT to use "duwr" cannot be presented as proof positive that he Isaiah meant (flat) circle and not a sphere.

DOES THE BIBLE SAY THE EARTH IS FLAT?

Most of the verses given as 'flat earth' examples are simply poetic language not scientific statements. Even today (in our scientific age) people refer to "sunrise" and "sunset" (even though we know that the sun doesn't go up and down literally) and it would be hard to read a love poem without hearing that someone would go to the "ends of earth" for someone they love. So let us look at a few poetic expressions used in the bible:

FIGURES OF SPEECH

Bible critics seem to exist in a world without the usual figures of speech. Idioms and poetry seem completely foreign concepts to them, thus when Canadian singer Celine Dion sings "my heart will go on" one presumes they conclude she is making a biological statement of the medical impossibility that here heart will never stop beating rather than the logical conclusion that she is refering to the heart as a symbol of love, a testimony of which will remain long after her physical heart has stopped. In any case the bible is full of poetic figures of speech (employing various linguistic tools such as similies, idioms...)


VISIONS

Daniel 4: 11 are both VISIONS (like a dream) - have you never dreamed that you were flying ? or that your dog was talking to you? Did you write to scientific journals when you woke up? Do you take your dreams as a literal revelation as to aerodynamics or animals linguistic abilities? Or do you perhaps use your common sense?! The bible often refers to people being "shown" things in vision, in Matthew, Jesus is "shown" all the kingdoms of the world, even if the bible WAS here extoling that the earth was flat it would STILL be physically impossible with the human eye to see nations and kingdoms literally thousands of miles away. In order to "see" China or the Incas in what came to be known as South America from a desert in Palestine Jesus would STILL have to have been given a vision. Thus since we are talking about a "vision" why would one aspect of it be considered literal?

POETRY

Job 38:12-13 "...take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it" Clearly Job is using poetic language, the image being of a cloth being "shaken" of debris or unwanted element. In this symbolic sense "edges" means extremities; the point being that no part of the "cloth" escapes being shaken. Even today we have singers that will got to the "ends of the earth" for their love; few people have a problem understanding they mean that they would travel as far as possible to prove their love.

JOB 38:15 => SIMILIE

In poetry a similie is when you liken one thing to another, you can recognise them because they usually use words like "like". An example of an English similie is "she was like a bull in a China shop".

*Do similies draw literal parelles to EVERY ASPECT of what is being compared? No, the poet is not usually refering to a direct paralle to ALL the features of the elements in comparison but usually one (or possibly more). Thus going back to our "bull in a china shop" the similie is not suggesting that the girl has horns or four legs, eats straw or lives on a farm... only to the damage she may cause from being clumsy.

*WHICH feature was JOB refering to? While some would suggest that Job was referring to the shape of the earth, another more reasonable interpretation is that the similie was refering to how soft and mallible clay is when its in a state to be used as a seal. We have a similar English expression "He's like putty in my hand" meaning I can manipulate him at will.

CONCLUSION Rather than refering to the flattened out shape of a seal the words at JOB 38v15 are poetic expressions used to convey the idea that the earth was easily subject to the creative powers of God at its genesis.

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