Thread: NASA discovery proves another Bible truth

-NASA's recent discovery shed new light on what the Bible says, thus confirming that these biblical stories are in fact true.

In the words of Mr. Harold Hill, the President of the Curtis engine Company in Baltimore, also a consultant in space programs: "One of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland".

As scientists were inspecting the positions of several space objects including the Sun, the Moon and the planets and their positions in 100 and 1000 years – this is done regularly in order to prevent our satellites from colliding with the orbits of the planets.

The orbits have to be determined on time so that the space projects do not interrupt their course. During the computer calculations, a red signal put everything at a standstill, meaning that something was wrong, either with the data or the results. After the intervention of the service department, the scientist concluded that somewhere in space a day was missing in elapsed time!

Nobody could solve the issue until one Christian explained that in Sunday school they were told about the Sun standing still. Of course, no one believed, but when the man took the Bible, he opened the book of Joshua and a pretty absurd statement made a lot of sense.

They read the passage when God said to Joshua: "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not be a man of them stand before thee." (Joshua 10:8).

Joshua was worried because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, he'd be conquered. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still!

That's right – "And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'-sher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day." (Joshua 10:13).

The scientists soon concluded that this was the missing day. They examined the computer calculations and found that the time missing was in fact 23 hours and 20 minutes, which doesn't make a full day like in the book of Joshua.

After reading the Bible again, they saw that it said "about (approximately) a day." Although the Bible was true, they were still missing 40 minutes which had to be accounted for, because if not, it could create problems 1,000 years from now.

The Christian then remembered something in the Bible which said...

http://www.justnaturallife.com/nasa-...ays-is-true-2/

Seems legit

I thought I'd try to actually examine the original source, because the article as quoted didn't actually make sense. So, I went to the source listed as "foodandourhealth.com". Which referenced "healthyfoodteam.com" as its source. Which referenced "Weeklyhealthylife.com" as its source. Which listed "naturalmedicinebox.net" as its source. By this point, I was starting to suspect that I might in fact be on a never-ending journey through ridiculous food-related websites; probably all owned by the same company and reposting each others' content to artificially boost search engine rankings.

Fortunately, for me (and my precious little remaining sanity ), the chain ended there; naturalmedicinebox listed "esnoticia.co" as its source, and I couldn't find a search function there.

So I thought I'd look up "Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland" and immediately came across a link on an urban legends site. Apparently, a similar story along these lines first appeared in the 1930s! In 1997, NASA confirmed that these events did not happen. In general, when creating these calculations, they extrapolate from things "today" (observable evidence) and based on those observations predict where they will be a few years in the future.

It is sad that producing false stories such as are produced because ultimately their dishonesty does nothing to help anyone.

Originally Posted by Monkfish

Seems legit

I thought I'd try to actually examine the original source, because the article as quoted didn't actually make sense. So, I went to the source listed as "foodandourhealth.com". Which referenced "healthyfoodteam.com" as its source. Which referenced "Weeklyhealthylife.com" as its source. Which listed "naturalmedicinebox.net" as its source. By this point, I was starting to suspect that I might in fact be on a never-ending journey through ridiculous food-related websites; probably all owned by the same company and reposting each others' content to artificially boost search engine rankings.

Fortunately, for me (and my precious little remaining sanity ), the chain ended there; naturalmedicinebox listed "esnoticia.co" as its source, and I couldn't find a search function there.

So I thought I'd look up "Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland" and immediately came across a link on an urban legends site. Apparently, a similar story along these lines first appeared in the 1930s! In 1997, NASA confirmed that these events did not happen. In general, when creating these calculations, they extrapolate from things "today" (observable evidence) and based on those observations predict where they will be a few years in the future.

It is sad that producing false stories such as are produced because ultimately their dishonesty does nothing to help anyone.

Well...... you're no fun!

These stories make me mad, because they only serve to make us look foolish, and I don't like looking fooling...

Originally Posted by Monkfish

Seems legit

I thought I'd try to actually examine the original source, because the article as quoted didn't actually make sense. So, I went to the source listed as "foodandourhealth.com". Which referenced "healthyfoodteam.com" as its source. Which referenced "Weeklyhealthylife.com" as its source. Which listed "naturalmedicinebox.net" as its source. By this point, I was starting to suspect that I might in fact be on a never-ending journey through ridiculous food-related websites; probably all owned by the same company and reposting each others' content to artificially boost search engine rankings.

Fortunately, for me (and my precious little remaining sanity ), the chain ended there; naturalmedicinebox listed "esnoticia.co" as its source, and I couldn't find a search function there.

So I thought I'd look up "Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland" and immediately came across a link on an urban legends site. Apparently, a similar story along these lines first appeared in the 1930s! In 1997, NASA confirmed that these events did not happen. In general, when creating these calculations, they extrapolate from things "today" (observable evidence) and based on those observations predict where they will be a few years in the future.

It is sad that producing false stories such as are produced because ultimately their dishonesty does nothing to help anyone.

That sounded rather odd, yes.

Originally Posted by Monkfish

...It is sad that producing false stories such as are produced because ultimately their dishonesty does nothing to help anyone.

Good catch....thanks Monk! Don't know why I didn't check this one out a bit better, I usually try to do at least a quick google.


Seems there are more along this line too, found this when I did a proper google:

...It is interesting to note that an attempt to explain Joshua's long day from a scientific standpoint was published many years before Harold Hill's NASA story. In the 1930s, Dr Harry Rimmer wrote a book called 'The Harmony of Science and Scripture', in which he drew from an 1890 book by Yale professor C.A. Totten.

Using popular biblical chronologies of the time, Totten concluded that the world was created 4,000 years before the birth of Christ, on Sunday, September 22, 4000BC. However, he said that the calendar calculations showed that September 22 was actually a Monday, and not a Sunday, and that the error was probably because of Joshua's missing day.

Totten also makes reference to the Hezekiah story in 2 Kings and argues that this accounts for another missing 20 minutes or so. Totten's calculations sound suspiciously familiar to the NASA story. The bottom line seems to be that there is a lot still missing about 'the Missing Day'.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/joshuaday/


But then when you check out Dr Harry Rimmer you find things like this:

...No doubt Rimmer himself believed the story to be true. But the documentation that should have provided the proof was seriously and obviously lacking. How such stories originate is far more difficult to ascertain than how they circulate. When a story has been "corroborated" with what appear to be credible names and relevant facts, people often do not go to the trouble of investigating it any further. Once accepted, it then is used in what the Bible believer sees as a reasoned defense of God's Word. From all evidence now available, the story of Ball, Totten, and Rimmer simply is not true, and should not be used in defending the Bible as the Word of God.

http://apologeticspress.org/apconten...1&article=1090

There are lots of stories like that out there that are circulated to mock Christianity. The golden chariots at the bottom of the red sea is an other one.

I got saved reading Harold Hill's book "How To Live Like A King's Kid."

I remember that story from when I first got saved as far back as '77. I could have sworn I read Harold's personal account of it though. Guess not.

Mr. Harold Hill, the President of the Curtis engine Company in Baltimore

Is this person real or made up?

Originally Posted by fuego

I got saved reading Harold Hill's book "How To Live Like A King's Kid."

I remember that story from when I first got saved as far back as '77. I could have sworn I read Harold's personal account of it though. Guess not.

THAT Harold Hill? I remember hearing him speak at one of my dad's "Full Gospel Businessmen" meetings back in the 80's.

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

Is this person real or made up?

Both will do as long as he doesnt wear real makeup.