Would it be fair to say that the Bible, at the time it was written, based its statements about the cosmos, anthropology and other subjects on the best available knowledge? I cannot think of an instance where a Biblical author advocates a particular view of “scientific” question over against others. For instance, when Paul assumes the heart is the locus of thought and will, he doesn’t tell people to not get misled by the ‘headists’, even though there were debates in that time about the subject.
There is a lot that Christians can learn from the Biblical authors’ approach today – if we pay attention to what they were doing in relation to their context and historical setting, rather than merely focusing on what they wrote.
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