When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?
The Coventry experiment
Brightness Before and Darkness Under
We have to account for a passage in Psalm 18 where the Bible tells us that God is in both 1) thick darkness and 2) has brightness before Him, at the same time and in the same context.
Firmament: רָקִ֖יעַ – raqia
The Hebrew word translated as "firmament" is raqia. A simple definition is "expanse" so most translations render the meaning as "the expanse of the sky."
February 11th
The firmament gives us a source of light for the second and third days of creation, a source of water for Noah’s flood, literal windows of heaven and we can account for all empirical observations of the cosmos.