Is gravity a push or a pull?

[Doveaman]

Is gravity a push or a pull?

I'm told it's a "fall".

Newton says it's a pull, Einstein says it's a push. What is it?

I'm told it's a well into which we fall. Even though I'm not sure why we would fall into the well in the first place without gravity causing us to fall into the well.
It seems like gravity is its own explanation: Gravity is gravity causing us to fall into a well.

 

[Tiberius]

Let's hope this thread doesn't get to 100 posts.

The OP is such a simple question, eh?

And I answered it in the second post.

 

[AV1611VET]

And I answered it in the second post.

Looks like the rest is noise, eh?

 

[Jazer]

I'm told it's a "fall".
I'm told it's a well into which we fall. Even though I'm not sure why we would fall into the well in the first place without gravity causing us to fall into the well.

What about the bottomless pit? If gravity was at the center of the earth then the pit would have a bottom.


Revelation 20 King James Version
1And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

 

[Jazer]

So it should have any relevance to today....why, exactly?

Why exactly? Because God is God and He does not change. The rules are you look at who the Bible was first written for. THEN you look at the message God has for us today. For example Moses gave instructions for a temple they were to build. There are a lot of details and those details have symbolic meaning for us today. There are pastors that are very gifted at helping us to understand what the meaning is of all those details in the Bible. This is why we are so amazed and look at the word of God with so much wonder. God can write a book to a people that lived 3500 years ago. Yet that very same book has just as much meaning is just as true today and we can apply the teaching of the Bible today just as much as they could 3500 years ago. The Bible and the teaching of God is timeless.

 

[razeontherock]

That's nice. My point about writing being an ineffectual and imperfect medium still stands.

Sorry, that point does NOT stand.

 

[FrenchyBearpaw]

I once heard a physicist say "gravity sucks, it always pulls, it never pushes."

 

[razeontherock]

Gravity's a real downer

 

[Cabal]

Sorry, that point does NOT stand.

Hmm.

Inefficient is probably a better word.

 

[razeontherock]

Imperfect is apt!

 

[Cabal]

Imperfect is apt!

I meant "inefficient and imperfect", just to be clear.

 

[razeontherock]

I'll go along with that, too. God repeats Himself a lot on the same point, in the hopes that we might "get it." That longsuffering and mercy kinda stuff ...