RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 14, 2019 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2019 at 9:03 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 14, 2019 at 8:33 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 14, 2019 at 8:22 am)Grandizer Wrote: Are you referring to Matthew 4:8-9?
Not sure this gets you to the claim you're making.
Because, from a very high mountain, you cannot be 'showed...all the kingdoms of the world...' unless the world is flat (and probably not even then). It simply isn't possible for there to be a mountain so high that from its peak you could see something past the curvature of a sphere.
Boru
I get that scientifically you cannot be shown the whole world unless the world was flat. But I don't think the verse must then imply that the first-century Christians clearly believed the earth was flat. Maybe "Matthew" didn't realize the implication of what is being stated here, or maybe it's meant to be a vision not to be taken so literally.
(November 14, 2019 at 8:41 am)Jehanne Wrote: "After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea." (Revelation 7:1)
Well, it's Revelation. It's a book of imagery and symbolism more than anything else.