20 Bible Verses About Science, and the Four Chapters Where God Asks the Questions

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Résumé

  • Job 38-41 is the longest passage on the natural world in Scripture: a series of questions from God, no explanations, and no answer to why Job suffered.
  • Job 38:33 assumes the heavens have laws that could be known; it denies only that Job knows them.
  • Jeremiah 33:25-26 ties God’s covenant to the laws of heaven and earth, the same reliability an experiment assumes before it can be repeated.
  • Proverbs 25:2 gives searching and concealing the same word — glory — which makes hiddenness an invitation rather than a rebuke.
  • Scripture offers no age for the earth and no mechanism for anything; it offers the assumptions that make investigating worth the trouble.

The Bible treats the natural world as orderly, knowable and worth studying, though it never presents itself as a science textbook. Its longest passage on nature, Job 38 to 41, is a series of questions God puts to Job about the foundations of the earth, the stars, the weather and wild animals, with no explanations attached. The twenty verses below cover those questions, a world that can be read, a world that follows fixed patterns, the mandate to study and…

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Bibliographie (cliquer pour afficher)

Les citations bibliques sont tirées de la version Louis Segond (ou équivalent).

God’s questions to Job run from Job 38:1 to 41:34; the ostrich is at 39:13-18, the storehouses of the snow at 38:22, and the morning at 38:12.

The paradox of speech without sound is at Psalm 19:3-4.

The mining passage that leads to Job 28:28 is Job 28:1-11.

The Hebrew verb translated “take care of” at Genesis 2:15 is shamar, used elsewhere for keeping a commandment and guarding a gate.

Daniel’s refusal of the royal food is at Daniel 1:8-16.

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