Scientific ACCURACIES in the Bible

[Justtristo]

Actually much the same process as I have described occurred in the Greek speaking Eastern Roman Empire as well, though to a lesser extent. For example a codex containing works of Archimedes found in what is now Istanbul had Christian prayers overwritten on it.

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I once heard a preacher/university campus evangelist on a local Gospel radio station talk about Eratosthenes and how Isaiah beat him to the punch around 400 years earlier. The man quoted Isaiah 40:22 to make his case.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 40:22 (English Standard Version)

I don't he realized despite his four year education at a bible college, that the verse actually implies a flat earth. Which can be confirmed by reading other biblical verses which describe the Earth in the same way.

The section of Isiah that this is in ( Deutero-Isiah) was written near the end of the Babylonian captivity ( according to modern scholars ), which is around the middle of the 6th century BCE. The Greek philosophers proposed a spherical earth at least 50 years earlier than this, so he's even more wrong than you thought he was.

Yikes