RE: Up?
October 12, 2016 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2016 at 9:38 pm by chimp3.)
(October 12, 2016 at 8:57 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: People who lived in, say 1350, who looked up at night and saw a comet or other things not readily explained tended to attribute it to supernatural or otherworldly causes. So I suppose it follows that these stories about things "up there" were just passed down to the believers today.
Right! When people believed the earth was fixed in space with the sun revolving around the earth. When people believed the stars were "hung" in the sky. Then "up" made sense because the universe was like a multi-storied house with hell in the basement.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!