Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
So if we are also to believe that science was saying this in the same era (it wasn't), then wouldn't your same rule of language also apply?
While we are (for those that accept the Bible is inspired by a Being that knows all things and also the entire past & future) listening to the words of God, they are being conveyed through the eyes and thoughts and language of people between 1500BC and 100AD.
So while you or I if we saw a meteorite would use the word meteorite, unfortunately that word (for example) wasn't available to John who wrote the book of Revelation; so when John is given a vision (to write down) about a scene that relates to his and our future, he says he saw a burning mountain fall into the sea! We in turn have to try and see it through his eyes/ mind to know what he means.