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Gimme a technical explanation of how this "vanishing point" works. Does if "vanish" the lower parts of objects, say ships, so it looks like they've dropped below the horizon but have not? How does that happen?
Yeah, the sun may actually rise in the southwest and set due north.
We still *say* that, don't we? Just as the writers of Scripture did. They weren't compiling a scientific tome, were they?
wucg us how it appears to a terrestrial observer, and how you or I would write it even now if we weren't interested in being technically precise. C'mon, we have to let reality intrude every now and then. We do no service to the Faith by acting otherwise.
A fairly transparent attempt to "explain away" what you see when an object drops below the horizon. Why doesn't that same effect obtain with aerial objects?
Perspective has nothing to do with it. At all.
Or it disappears below the horizon, as everyone pretty much already knows.
That ship is beyond the horizon, so the hull is hidden by the curvature of the earth.
No they don't. They just get smaller and smaller. Atmospheric conditions and temperature differentials near the surface can cause refractions or haze which can hide the lower parts, but they can also cause things which should be hidden by the earth's curvature to be visible (fata morgana illusion).
No, that is not perspective.
God created man as the pinnacle of His creation and placed man over His creation. He created man to be in communion with Him and through the Scriptures revealed all of this to man. The Scriptures were certainly not written for His benefit.
Anthropocentric means "man-centered." The Bible was not written from the view of man but rather from God's view = THEOCENTRIC. The Bible is theocentric in derivation written for the benefit of us sheep.
Where did I write that Scripture is written for the benefit of God?? It is written BY God for OUR BENEFIT. - FROM GOD"S POINT OF VIEW.
Just as in the rules of perspective as in the vanishing point. Shazam!
No. In perspective everything vanishes at the vanishing point at the same rate. Nothing vanishes from the bottom up. What you are claiming is total nonsense.
The Old Testament describes God in anthropocentric terms, such as "His right arm", "His feet", "His hands" and "His head", yet God is spirit and does not have a body with head and limbs, not until the Incarnation anyway. His description is a condescension to our difficulty in conceiving of a God who is completely other than His creation. When Genesis was written, the experience the average Jew had of the earth was limited to how far he could see or how far he could walk in a day. Describing the earth as a huge, tilted, rotating ball in orbit around a sun which was big enough to contain 1,000,000 earths would have been so utterly different to what he could actually experience on a day to day basis that it would have been as incomprehensible to him as an infinite, bodyless, uncreated God.
Have you ever observed it for yourself? I have. Just look down a long stretch of flat road. As you observe a vehicle travel away from you, the bottom of the vehicle disappears first, followed by the top of the vehicle. It certainly does not vanish at the same time as you allege. When a vehicle approaches your direction from afar, the opposite happens as the top of the vehicle appears first, followed by the bottom half.
You are coming from left field. We are not discussing what God looks like. We are discussing what the earth looks like. Furthermore, to make matters worse for you, what you describe is ANTHROPOMORPHIC not ANTHROPOCENTRIC. Your conflating two different terms only serves to weaken your argument.
What you are describing is evidence of the earth's curvature, not perspective.
God is described in terms accessible to their human experience, just as the earth is.
I might mix the terms up but it doesn't change my argument.
It certainly does change your argument as makes you point moot and totally irrelevant as in apples and oranges. Enjoy your fruit.
You are grasping at straws. It works the same no matter what the weather conditions. Care to try again?
If that is the case then it is due to the curvature of the earth. Thanks for the clarification.
Your welcome! Vanishing point the same no matter what the weather conditions.
