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videos and read their web pages. They describe a great dome erected over the Earth. They have no
observational evidence to support the idea of a giant dome being erected over the Earth. Their
conclusions are wholly informed by their errant interpretations of the Bible. The Bible speaks of
there being windows in the firmament which are opened to let water in, and the Bible describes the
heavens as being spread out like a tent or a vault above the Earth.

Genesis 7:11-12
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened. And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Isaiah 40:22
It is He who sits above the vault of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches
out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

How similar are men to grasshoppers? This simile is quite limited in its application. Men are not
insects. They don’t have wings, or hop about like grasshoppers. They don’t have antennae. Yet at
some level the comparison between men and grasshoppers is accurate. It is always necessary to guard
against going too far in the attempt to derive meaning from similes and metaphors. Is there an actual
vault above the Earth? Did Yahweh stretch out the heavens like a curtain, or is this figurative
language used to express the appearance of the heavens to those who dwell upon the Earth? It is
quite reckless to use such figurative language as if it were intended as a physically accurate
description of Yahweh’s creation.

Most rational people would agree that there are no actual windows in the heavens. Yahweh did not
construct an immense physical arch over the Earth and install windows in it to let in water anymore
than He installed physical doors to hold back the seas. There are no physical storehouses of rain and
snow and hail, irregardless of the poetic language employed in the Scriptures. The poetic passages
of the Bible contain many ingenious allusions; comparisons which were not intended to be
interpreted literally.

Job 38:19-23
“Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place, that you may take it to
its territory, and that you may discern the paths to its home? You know, for you were born then, and
the number of your days is great! Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen
the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of war and
battle?”

I haven’t heard any flat-Earthers promoting the idea that light has a dwelling place. Why then do they
insist that there is a dome over the Earth with physical windows which let in rain and snow and hail?
In this same passage from Job we find the following questions asked by the Creator.

Job 38:28-29
“Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?”