Conservative Christians have an extensive rationalization for why the KJV is the only Bible you should use. It's tedious and unnecessary. If your Bible doesn't have the word firmament in Genesis 1:6 then it's not a real Bible.
The Expanse
Rolled Together as a Scroll
Is the phrase "the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll" flowery poetic language or accurate physics? If the firmament is a rigid sphere of crystal on the edge of space, it's accurate physics.
October 26th
We use multiple lines of investigation including scripture, empirical observations, theoretical models, and physical evidence to deduce the presence of a sphere of crystal on the edge of space.
Firmament 20
<< Previous | Home >> Genesis 7:11, 8:2 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. The fountains also of the deep and the windows …
Firmament 19
<< Previous | Next >> Exodus 24:9-10 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in …
Firmament 17
<< Previous | Next >> Job 22:12-14 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in …
Firmament 16
<< Previous | Next >> Job 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? Let's not get carried away though, trust Job to bring us back to reality. This gets us back to the very meaning of the Hebrew word translated firmament - raqia. Something …
Firmament 15
<< Previous | Next >> Psalms 18:9-13 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and …
Firmament 14
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Firmament 13
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.