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What is a Molton looking glass - it's a mirror made out of beaten down metal.

Job 37:18
This verse gives solidarity to a solid firmament (excuse the pun).
But as I keep on asking you, what has a molten looking glass got to do with the firmament? You now say yet again that Job 37:18 shows the firmament to be solid. It doesn't mention the firmament. It mentions a molten looking glass, and the sky, but not the firmament. You have agreed that the sky is not the same as the firmament, so I am puzzled as to why you keep quoting a verse about the sky to show that the firmament must be solid. Look again at all the verses which mention the word "firmament" I quoted in Post 402. None of them mentions that the firmament is a dome or solid.
 
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But as I keep on asking you, what has a molten looking glass got to do with the firmament? You now say yet again that Job 37:18 shows the firmament to be solid

Yes - It does, what else could be strong as a mirror made out of beaten down metal ?
 
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Yes - It does, what else could be strong as a mirror made out of beaten down metal ?
That's not what you were being asked - and I think you know that.

You have, several times, been asked to show where Scripture teaches that the firmament is solid.
You can't.
The reason why you can't quote a verse showing that the firmament is solid is because there isn't one. The only verse you've been able to quote is one from Job which says that the sky is AS molten glass.
The firmament and the sky and different things. I can even quote the post where you said that, just in case you've forgotten.

I think you know this. But you're focusing on details like the meaning of the word "molten" and sodium whatever it is - because that might divert our attention from the fact that you've contradicted yourself, again.

The fact still remains - no Scripture to say that the firmament is solid.
 
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Yes - It does, what else could be strong as a mirror made out of beaten down metal ?
I will try again. If you look at Job 37:18, you will see it is about the sky. It is not about the firmament. You said earlier in this thread that the sky is not the firmament. So Job 37:18 is no use fro proving that the bible teaches a solid firmament. The verse DOES NO MENTION the firmament.
 
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What is a Molton looking glass - it's a mirror made out of beaten down metal.
Where are the words "looking glass" in Scripture? You are treading on dangerous ground adding your own words to Scripture.
 
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Yes - It does, what else could be strong as a mirror made out of beaten down metal ?
Scripture doesn't call it a mirror. You are adding to God’s Word.
 
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So Job 37:18 is no use fro proving that the bible teaches a solid firmament

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So tell me, what is the strong's blue letter Bible ?
I'm not answering any questions of yours until you can answer the one question that David has been asking you.
Which is, "where does the Bible teach that the firmament is solid?"
And don't quote the verse from Job which speaks of the sky - you have said that they are different things.

If you can't answer this, then your whole argument collapses.
 
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I'm not answering any questions of yours until you can answer the one question that David has been asking you.

You mean you can't answer, so it's not my argument that collapses it's yours.
 
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You mean you can't answer,
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You've been failing to answer our question for days, so don't try that with me.
Where is the verse/passage/Scriptural teaching that says the firmament is solid?
 
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And what is the Blue Letter Bible ?
The Blue Bible is not relevant to this discussion.
Whereas you want us to believe that the firmament is solid - so prove it.
 
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And what is the Blue Letter Bible ?
I have just looked up the Blue letter bible for the word translated "sky" in Job 37:18. It says:

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Inflected:לִ/שְׁחָקִים
Root:שַׁחַק
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Strong's:H7834
English:the sky,
Language:Hebrew
Code:H R / Ncmpa

It is not the word raqia.
 
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But raqia is not used in Job 37:18. This is what I have been saying over and over again. The word translated into Engish in that verse as "sky" is shachaq, Strong's No. 07834.

I wasn't looking up for the word 'sky' I was looking for the word 'firmament'.
 
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