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Bookmark or Share- August 2017: An Eclipse of Biblical ProportionsIn the summer of 2017, those in North America were treated to an eclipse of Biblical proportions. A total solar eclipse (when the moon completely blocks the sun, casting the earth in temporary darkness) was visible across the United States on August 21, 2017 (see map for visibility).
- Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical ProportionsBut how big would the flood have needed to be in order to be Noah’s flood? Not even the biblical literalists can agree on how long the “cubit” measure mentioned in the Bible’s flood story should be. So how should we expect science to define our biblical proportions?
- Christian Theology and Disasters: Where is God in All This?We talk about a flood as being of biblical proportions (in reference to Noah’s Flood in Genesis), about worldwide disasters being apocalyptic (in reference to the biblical Apocalypse and the Day of Judgment), and insurance companies talk of “acts of God ,” by which they mean natural disasters Footnote 1 that humans did not cause or could ...
- The Bible in the News: Of Biblical Proportions - The BAS LibraryBy Leonard J. Greenspoon. In a column published in fall 2004, a I discovered that excessive rain and other manifestations of nature-produced pain were the most common occurrences that writers in the popular press associated with the expression “of Biblical proportions.”
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