Von Braun read the KJV Bible, one which was given to him by his Gideon friend, and further confirmed he read the KJV Bible from his lectures quoting from the KJV Bible.
The KJV Bible called it the Firmament, and described it as separating the waters above Earth from those below, on Earth. It also described it as holding in the waters above Earth.
Some people treat the Bible as a book of science. I seriously doubt that Von Braun was one of them.
If Von Braun thought ‘space’ did exist, and he would have before he turned to Christianity and the Bible, there’d be no reason he’d become a Christian.
Von Braun was raised as a Lutheran, therefore a Christian. He also famously said ""The farther we probe into space, the greater my faith".
Obviously he wasn’t going to say his rockets hit the Firmament above Earth high up in the skies, by that point!
There’s obviously a huge conflict in what he was saying in public and his actions later in his life, and his tombstone of course.
What would he really believe, really know, is through his actions, his own work, his last words on Earth, on his tombstone, said without fear or concern, the freedom to speak out truths, that were never said in life, but said after life, to everyone on Earth.
There’s simply no reason, no point, no meaning, no logic or common sense in any way, if it was about ‘space’ or ‘universe, as an infinite, endless area, surrounding a ball Earth.
Nobody has EVER looked at passages describing the Firmament, or the original term in Hebrew, raqia, or the later twisted terms that fail miserably…..
If we assume the Soviets sent up the first craft in ‘space’, ‘low Earth orbit’, ‘sub space’, etc…
Who ever said anything about the Firmament as ‘space’? Nobody at all said it’s about ‘space’!
When you try this ridiculous, desperate excuse, that Von Braun referred to one specific passage in the Bible, describing God creating the Firmament for all of us to see above us on Earths surface, which divides the waters above from below, on Earth, that holds the waters above Earth……
Maybe you want to completely ignore that the Bible, in every version of it, has a very specific description of the Firmament, which doesn’t work as ‘expanse’ or ‘skies’ or ‘space’ or ‘universe’!!
They’ve clearly made a description of the Firmament, or raqia, as HOLDING UP WATERS ABOVE EARTH.
It’s the only description they make for it, that it divides the waters, of Earth, above Earth, from below, on Earth…
They repeatedly describe what it is, a divider of the waters, a holder of the waters above Earth, from waters below, on Earth.
When the scumbags later on made a ‘revision’ of the Bible, and more revisions afterwards, it was to change what the Firmament was, the truth about it, what it is, and meant to be..
I don’t care about the Vatican or whoever else says that it means ‘endless space or universe’, when they completely ignore that it holds up and divides the waters above Earth from those below, on the Earth!!
Anyone who says it’s about ‘space or universe’, is either stupid, uninformed, or is lying, one or the other.
When you know it holds and divides the waters in TWO distinct areas, two separate places, one which is on the Earth’s surface, the other above the Earth’s surface, which is exactly what they describe it as…..
None of you, none who say that it means ‘expanse’ or ‘space’, or ‘infinite universe’, can explain what waters are being held in it above Earth, dividing the waters in two areas, one above Earth and one on Earth!
Rainwater from clouds at 12000 feet altitude, don’t work, of course. Clouds are not always there, in the skies above Earth, nor all clouds are raining water, on Earth below, either.
More important, clouds aren’t in ‘space’ or ‘universe’, either!
That’s the bs about ‘space’ being meant, what you try saying that Von Braun took it to mean!
Nobody else on Earth has ever thought it meant ‘space’, but Von Braun did!!
The waters they specifically described it as holding up above Earth, from waters below on Earth, are completely ignored as irrelevant to mention at all!