2 Timothy 3:16-17
God Inspired the Bible Authors
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Job 38:16
Springs in the Sea
Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Jonah 2:1-6
Jonah Prays Inside the Great Fish
1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said:
“In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
3 You hurled me into the depths,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.
4 I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’
5 The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
6 To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, Lord my God,
brought my life up from the pit.
Job 36:27-33
Clouds and Rain
27 “He draws up the drops of water,
which distill as rain to the streams;
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
and abundant showers fall on mankind.
29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds,
how he thunders from his pavilion?
30 See how he scatters his lightning about him,
bathing the depths of the sea.
31 This is the way he governs the nations
and provides food in abundance.
32 He fills his hands with lightning
and commands it to strike its mark.
33 His thunder announces the coming storm;
even the cattle make known its approach.
I do not read the Bible to find out answers to detailed scientific questions...The Bible is the Book of Faith and for faith...The authors were inspired by God as they wrote their verses...
For thousands of years man could not study or get to the bottom of the ocean...But in the Bible there are verses about springs, foundations, mountains and valleys being below the seas...And many, many years after the Book of Job was written and the Jonah, we have found that there are in fact springs in some of the depths of the oceans...Jonah after being swallowed by the great fish, he says that the engulfing waters threatened him, the deep surrounded him; seaweed was wrapped around his head...And to the roots of the mountains he sank down...It sounds like Jonah is telling us there are mountains and valleys under the oceans...And he would be right...There is now a term for under water mountains, they are called mid-ocean ridges...So there are mountains and valleys and springs and fountains under the seas of the world, which was unknown to man thousand of years ago, when the Bible was originally written...
In Job it is also mentioned that from the clouds, they pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind...Who can understand how God spreads out the clouds, how He thunders from His pavilion?...Now we know there is this water cycle, and that water evaporates over the great seas...This water vapor rises and produces clouds, which brings rain over the earth...Now how the author of Job would have know this is very interesting, because the science of climate and weather was in its very infancy then, if at all...
And although the Bible is not a science book, there is history and a bit of science in it...God inspired the authors to write about the truths they had seen and heard orally about Him...