(December 2, 2020 at 5:05 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Do you think the authors of the Bible were Flat-Earthers? It makes little sense to me to assume they were. Flat-Earthers often cite the "mountain so high you can see all the kingdoms from the top of it" from the Gospel of Luke as evidence that early Christians were flat-earthers, but I think it was obvious that such a mountain does not actually exist (if it existed, then it would be visible from everywhere on Earth). Saint Paul did despise Ancient Greek philosophy, but I don't think he thought the Earth was flat. In fact, I am quite sure he believed the Earth to be a sphere revolving around the Sun, when he alluded to Aristarchus'es work by saying that stars are unimaginably distant and a lot higher than the Sun and the Moon. He also alluded to the Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation (what you sow does not sprout unless it dies) when explaining how dead people can resurrect.
Read up on Hellenistic Judaism, which centered in Alexandria and extended to Antioch and Jerusalem. Study it and you may see evidence that Greek influence on Judea developed Christianity. Paul believed in the firmament, because that's where, in his version, demon spirits killed Christ. The Ascension of Isaiah demonstrates the seven heavens, which are spheres but I don't recall it saying earth was flat. I think it helps to view these texts in terms of ancient cosmology, but I don't know what the authors believed or who the truly were.