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Bill wondered how he and Jesus would pass through the heat shields that he says surround the earth. Bill said: "I know that reentering the earth's atmosphere is an extremely complicated ordeal for astronauts, and I sensed when we passed through that BARRIER" (23 Minutes in Hell, p. 44). What a crock! Bill doesn't even know that heat shields are man-made, and are not anomalies of nature. | Bill wondered how he and Jesus would pass through the heat shields that he says surround the earth. Bill said: "I know that reentering the earth's atmosphere is an extremely complicated ordeal for astronauts, and I sensed when we passed through that BARRIER" (23 Minutes in Hell, p. 44). What a crock! Bill doesn't even know that heat shields are man-made, and are not anomalies of nature. | ||
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Contradiction #42
Bill wondered how he and Jesus would pass through the heat shields that he says surround the earth. Bill said: "I know that reentering the earth's atmosphere is an extremely complicated ordeal for astronauts, and I sensed when we passed through that BARRIER" (23 Minutes in Hell, p. 44). What a crock! Bill doesn't even know that heat shields are man-made, and are not anomalies of nature.
On page iii of ( Acknowledgments) , Bill says, "My deepest appreciation to...Dane Bundy, for your excellent research on many of the scriptures and your humble attitude. Thank you, Dane!"
As far as I am concerned, Bill's "excellent research on many of the Scriptures" is as non-existent as is his research on simple science. When it comes to scholarship, this book, 23 Minutes in Hell, is without a doubt the poorest scholarship that I have read on any subject in the last thirty years. I wish I could take another fifty or hundred pages to go through all of his contradictions and nonsense in detail, but this paper is already getting too long.
I am spending a little time on this Contradiction, however, because it is so far over-the-top that it deserves severe criticism. It's not just that Bill has not even an elementary understanding of such things as "heat shields," but he would have us believe that Jesus Himself is equally ignorant regarding these things. And this one is typical of Bill's spurious use of Scripture. Bill's lack of scholarship and poor understanding of the Scriptures has resulted in a work that is embarrassing. We will now look at Bill's teaching on "heat shields." Bill says:
"Anyway, as we came back down we passed through the shields; I knew we were passing through the heat shield that was around the earth. I just knew it. I even thought stupid thought, here I am with God, and I thought, 'I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?' You know how in space they have to penetrate it at just the perfect angle. We went through it with no problem what so ever. No surprise! I'm sure the Lord must have rolled His eyes and said 'I can handle that one'. There is a scripture in Psalm 47:9 that says:
"The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted"
So Bill says, "I just knew we were passing through the heat shield that was around the earth. I just knew it." Oh really? Bill knew no such thing, because this whole story is a concocted fraud. There is no "heat shield" around the earth, so he didn't know any such thing as he describes.
Bill does not understand this verse in Psalms, neither does he understand the most fundamental science of heat shields. He in fact, does not even know what a "heat shield" is. The Hebrew word "megan, translated "shields" in Psalm 47:9 has no reference to the earth or its atmosphere, whatsoever. The word megan has a very specific definition: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Hebrew Dictionary: "megan, a shield (that is, a small one, buckler), figuratively a protector; also the scaly hide of a crocodile)."
One other Hebrew word translated shield in the Bible is sinna, and is larger than a megan shield, and could cover the entire body of a worrier. So even if the David meant the word "shields" as a figure of speech, he would have certainly used the word sinna, which is a LARGE shield, rather than magen, a "small" shield. That is unless one feels that a "large" shield is needed to cover a man, but a "small" shield is all that is needed to cover the entire Earth. Psalm 47:8-9:
"God reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth ( Hebrew: 'erets' - 'to be firm, earth, land, country, field, ground') belong unto God: he is greatly exalted" (Psalm 47:8-9).
The context negates this verse having reference to the surrounding atmosphere of the planet Earth. A few other translations:
"...for the world's worriers belong to God" (Psalm 47:9, Moffatt Translation).
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible has the following footnote to the phrase "shields of the earth" - "That is "rulers,: as "PROTECTORS."
"The patrons of the peoples, they are gathered with the people of the God of Abraham. For the pefects ( a high administrative official or chief officer) of the earth ( or land) belong to God" (Psa. 47:9, Concordant Old Testament).
"The Gentile rulers of the world have joined with us in praising him - praising the God of Abraham - for the battle shields of all the armies of the world are His trophies. He is highly honored everywhere" (Psalm 47:9, The Living Bible).
It is absolutely shameful the way Bill perverts Scripture.
Heat shield on Space Shuttle
Atmospheric heat shielding has to do with objects that pass through the atmosphere. They are not part of the atmosphere or in the atmosphere. Wikipedia's article HEAT SHIELD.
A trans-atmospheric heat shield is a protective layer on a spacecraft or ballistic missile that is designed to protect it from the high temperature of atmospheric entry, on a body with an atmosphere, such as Earth , Mars and Venus . Most, if not all, spacecraft use a type of heat shield in order to protect from the high temperatures during re-entry. Heat shields are very important to the space shuttles and the failure of these systems can be catastrophic, as seen in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster . (Underline is by Wikipedia).
Well there you have it. Atmospheric head shields are on the object, vehicle, or space craft that needs to withstand tremendous heat caused by friction. This shield is MAN-MADE and has nothing to do with the atmosphere itself.
Furthermore, seldom outside of the book of Genesis is the Hebrew word "erets" correctly translated "earth," as in the planet Earth. Most often this word refers to "a land or country." In Genesis 1:1, where God "created the heavens and the earth ( Heb: erets) ," it is clear that "erets" is properly translated "earth" rather than "land" or "ground," seeing that two-thirds of the earth is water rather than ground and land. So Isaiah is not speaking of "shields of the planet earth."
There are no such shields.
But let's notice Genesis 24:3-5, where erets is found four times:
"And I will make you swear by the Lord, God of heaven, and the God of the earth ( Heb. erets) ...But you shall go unto my country ( Heb. erets) ...now get thee out from this land ( Heb. erets) and return unto the land ( Heb. erets) of your kindred."
Surely erets is translated correctly in these verses.
Abraham is not talking about "The God of the earth... unto my earth... from this earth... and return unto the earth." Like many other words in Hebrew, they are translated according to the context in which they are found. Most people are shocked to learn that our English language dictionaries have upwards of fifty to a hundred thousand words, whereas the Hebrew language had only 2552 root words from which to translate the entire Old Testament into English.
Do we really believe that this verse should be translated: "...now get you out from this earth and return to unto the earth of your kindred?" It is the "shields of the ( people of the) land" that "belong to God," not some fancied "heat shields" surrounding the atmosphere of the planet Earth.
Was Abraham's servant to go into Abraham's "earth" and if she would not follow him into "this earth, Abraham's son would have to go to "his earth?"
King David wrote: "The LORD is my strength and my shield ( Heb. megan) ..." (Psalm 28:7). All the "shields" of the land, the country, the armies, belong to God, and He is our Personal SHIELD. And that is how it is used in Psalm 47:9.
In Israel, they had two varieties of shields and buckler's shield, buckler: ( 1) a large shield (sinna)), used by the heavy-armed infantrymen, covered the whole body, (Example is found in Psalm 5:12), and ( 2) a small light shield ( 'magen'), used by archers and for hand-to-hand fighting (Example is found in Psalm47:9)" (Wycliffe Bible Dictionary, p. 151).
It is absolutely dumbfounding to believe that Bill thinks that when NASA speaks of "heat shields," that they are making reference to the Earth's outer atmosphere. When Bill states: "...as we came back down we passed through the shields: I knew we were passing through the heat shield that was around the earth. I just knew it. I even thought ( a) stupid thought, here I am with God, and I thought, "I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?" You know how in space they have to penetrate it ( the heat shield) at just the perfect angle. We went through it with no problem what so ever. No surprise! I'm sure the Lord must have rolled His eyes and said 'I can handle that one'".
No God didn't roll His eyes, but I can tell you who is rolling his eyes at this very moment. God made the earth, and He knows whether it is surrounded by a heat shield. It is the space craft (be it a shuttle or a capsule) that must be equipped with "heat shields" so as to not burn up at re-entry. It is the man-made space vehicle that needs to be equipped and protected with a heat shield.
It is the friction of the craft plowing through the ice-cold upper atmosphere at dozens of miles per second which causes great heat to the space craft. That's right, boys and girls, the upper atmosphere is extremely cold. Even at lower altitudes it is extremely cold. When one flies at forty thousand feet in a jet, the temperature outside your window is in the range of 60 degrees below zero. That's no "heat," that's very cold.
Apollo Command Module flying at a high angle of attack for lifting entry, artistic rendition.
From the above illustrations, it should be clear that it is the space craft that needs to be equipped with the heat shield to protect it from burning up in re-entry due to the extremely high temperatures caused by friction. And so it is necessary to enter the atmosphere at precisely the right speed and precisely the right angle, not so as to slip through some imaginary atmospheric heat shield, but rather so that the craft itself does not overheat from friction. So when Bill says "I just knew." No he didn't, he didn't know at all. He made the whole thing up thinking it would add a little interest to his fantastic voyage from hell to outer space.
I spent so much time with illustrations on this heat shield contradiction, because it is so incredibly stupid and unscientific, and easily exposed by even an elementary science student. Bill would have us believe that somehow Jesus was able to navigate through this non-existent atmospheric heat shield: "I wonder how He's going to go through that shield?" Maybe in Judgment, Bill can ask Jesus just how He did it?