What was the actual sacrifice that Jesus made?

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Then, they believed that the earth was as a carpet, so they would say four corners. Sorry, they were lying/deluded/egotists/loved an audience

Does the Navy's use of a figure of speech make the US military a bunch of lying, deluded egotists who love an audience? I'm thinking we'd need more evidence than an ambiguous passage to say the author meant us to take the words in a wooden, literal sense.

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Then, they believed that the earth was as a carpet, so they would say four corners. Sorry, they were lying/deluded/egotists/loved an audience

Do you ever watch the God channel? They are so brainwashed it's incredible. parents have a lot to answer for

Agreed. Can't blame people for thinking Christians are nut jobs after seeing some of what passes for Christianity on TV!

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Jupitor:

But if you are thinking the Old Testament teaches the earth has corners, please consider this passage:


He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

(Isaiah 40:22)

The Hebrew for the word translated as circle in this passage can also be translated as sphere, I've heard. The word circle can also mean a sphere, or orb in the English language, as evidenced by definition (16) of the word at Dictionary.com. The site even uses the words, "circle of the earth" as a phrase meaning a sphere.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/circle?s=t

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Please don't get me wrong. I'd never suggest that the Bible should be used as a science textbook. I'm just thinking that it does not necessarily contradict any currently accepted scientific fact.