RE: Scientific ACCURACIES in the Bible
June 9, 2012 at 6:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2012 at 6:11 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(June 9, 2012 at 5:51 pm)Drich Wrote:(June 9, 2012 at 1:38 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: On the circle of the earth passage, I have this to quote from a recent book:Perhaps the problem is Mr. Loftus was looking up the wrong word. The Word acconding to Strong Concordance is:chuwg
Gesenius's Lexicon defines it as Circle, Sphere, Compass/Use of the Arch or vault of the Sky.
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I would be interested in how Genenius came to the conclusion that it can mean "sphere." Did he see the Isaiah passage in question and come to the conclusion that "...well, chuwg/chug [same word] certainly means sphere here because the Bible can't contradict reality"?
Also, some other lexicons don't include "sphere" http://concordances.org/hebrew/2329.htm
http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q...References
Drich, you're also ignoring the context of the verse too. As my quotation explained, it makes more sense to read it as describing a flat earth in the context of the verse
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
