RE: Gullibility - a key to heaven?
October 14, 2012 at 12:14 am
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2012 at 12:15 am by Darkstar.)
(October 14, 2012 at 12:02 am)catfish Wrote: You keep saying there wasn't knowledge of a spherical Earth, why?
Flat Earth Society
wikipedia Wrote:The belief that the Earth was flat was typical of ancient cosmologies until about the 4th century BC, when the Ancient Greek philosophers proposed the idea that the Earth was a sphere, or at least rounded in shape. Aristotle was one of the first thinkers to propose a spherical Earth in 330 BC. By the early Middle Ages, it was widespread knowledge throughout Europe that the Earth was a sphere.By the early Middle Ages, it was widespread knowledge throughout Europe that the Earth was a sphere.
The OT was written prior to 330 B.C.E. Therefore, its writers would have envisioned a flat earth, even if they were scientists. The NT was written prior to the middle ages (by far), so while the writers might have been exposed to the idea that the earth was spherical, it is not certain they were or that they believed it. If they knew the earth was round, then why would they write the passage in such a misleading way when most, if not all of their audience thought the earth was flat?
catfish Wrote:I say it is written in the Bible as well as a description of there being both night and day at the same time on the earth. What would your reasonable assumption be then?
You say this. Please provide the passage. I usually, if not always, provide the passage(s) in question in my posts.
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