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Your examples do not consider that God is omnipresent, He does not have a visual perspective like we have.Like I said,
There are a large number of Bible verses that are compatible with a flat earth and incompatible with a spherical earth. e.g. The Flat-Earth Bible.
Are you aware of ANY Bible verses that are compatible with a spherical earth and incompatible with a flat earth?
In a flat earth the people are below and they could theoretically all be seen. If the earth is spherical many of the people are on the opposite side, upside down....
I think tents are always propped up on a flat surface - like a flat earth rather than a spherical one. Do you see how in those two examples it was compatible with a flat earth and not a spherical one?
Also:
With a flat earth it is clear what "above" means. With a spherical earth, in some ways a throne "above" the earth is also "below" it....
Isaiah 40:22 says:Your examples do not consider that God is omnipresent, He does not have a visual perspective like we have.
It’s wrong, though. Pi is famously not three.Here is a great expression of pi that was written about 300 years before Archimedes was born:
1Ki 7:23
He made the sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its one lip unto its other lip, circular round about; five cubits was its rise, and a measuring tape of thirty cubits would surround it round about.
Would knowing the age of the earth make any difference to anyone's life?Is there anything related to physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, etc that is mentioned in the Bible that couldn't have just been reasoned about by thinkers and philosophers of the time? i.e. that suggests that the knowledge came from God rather than from people of the time?
Sometimes I hear about hygiene (which doctors didn't bother with until around the mid 1800s).... but that might just be about ceremonial cleanliness.
The Bible could have said that more than a thousand thousand thousand years ago the heavens were created as a speck that was incredibly hot. Then it spread out and formed the stars. Then more than a thousand thousand thousand years later the Sun, Earth and "wandering stars" (planets) were formed. (rather than the Bible seeming to say that the stars were formed before the Earth)
If you think those numbers are too big for the Bible consider these:
1 Chronicles 21:5 - 1,100,000 ("eleven times one hundred thousand")
Revelation 5:11 - "ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands"
Or it could have said that our mind comes from our head.... instead it seems to be saying that our mental abilities come from our heart and gut, etc.
Note that I don't think there is anything in the Bible that contradicts the idea that the Earth is flat. Isaiah 40:22's "circle of the earth" could be interpreted as talking about a ball but it doesn't contradict the idea that the earth is a flat disc.
Apparently some Christians say that the Bible isn't meant to be a science textbook. But I think its poetry could involve real science rather than seem to involve a very non-scientific world-view.
Creationists would say that the universe is really only a few thousand years old, just like the Bible implies but do you have any evidence that the universe is that old besides the genealogies in Genesis?
Assuming that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old it is easier to argue that the Bible is inspired if the Bible said it was billions of years old rather than giving the impression that it is thousands of years old....Would knowing the age of the earth make any difference to anyone's life?
What difference does it make if the earth is 10 000 years old or 1 billion years old?
A large proportion of astrophysicists don't believe in God or at least that God doesn't intervene in daily life (if they believe that God can explain the origin of the Big Bang). For astrophysicists that do believe they have figured out a way to fit the Bible with the idea that the universe is about 13 billion years old.....We only live for a handful decades after we leave school. I cannot see the importance of an understanding of cosmology and how that relates to life.
Something that seems to be missing from that list is any Biblical support that the Earth is incredibly ancient.... and that the stars are even more ancient than the Earth.... and by ancient I mean more than a few thousand years old....
Is there anything in the Bible that says that all those things could not have existed for an extensive time before God decided to do something with them?Something that seems to be missing from that list is any Biblical support that the Earth is incredibly ancient.... and that the stars are even more ancient than the Earth.... and by ancient I mean more than a few thousand years old....
That sounds like Old Earth Creationism or Theistic Evolution or Gap Theory.... I think they believe something like that....Is there anything in the Bible that says that all those things could not have existed for an extensive time before God decided to do something with them?
Like I said,
There are a large number of Bible verses that are compatible with a flat earth and incompatible with a spherical earth. e.g. The Flat-Earth Bible.
Are you aware of ANY Bible verses that are compatible with a spherical earth and incompatible with a flat earth?
In a flat earth the people are below and they could theoretically all be seen. If the earth is spherical many of the people are on the opposite side, upside down....
I think tents are always propped up on a flat surface - like a flat earth rather than a spherical one. Do you see how in those two examples it was compatible with a flat earth and not a spherical one?
Also:
With a flat earth it is clear what "above" means. With a spherical earth, in some ways a throne "above" the earth is also "below" it....
Like I said,
There are a large number of Bible verses that are compatible with a flat earth and incompatible with a spherical earth. e.g. The Flat-Earth Bible.
Are you aware of ANY Bible verses that are compatible with a spherical earth and incompatible with a flat earth?
In a flat earth the people are below and they could theoretically all be seen. If the earth is spherical many of the people are on the opposite side, upside down....
I think tents are always propped up on a flat surface - like a flat earth rather than a spherical one. Do you see how in those two examples it was compatible with a flat earth and not a spherical one?
Also:
With a flat earth it is clear what "above" means. With a spherical earth, in some ways a throne "above" the earth is also "below" it....
It’s wrong, though. Pi is famously not three.
Where does it say that?Pi isn't suggested by the description.
The brim was flared "like a teacup" outward 4 inches all around and measured 10 cubits across.
Diameter of laver body = 9.55 cubits (30 cubits divided by 3.14).
Where does it say that?
“1Ki 7:23Right there, in the account.
“1Ki 7:23
He made the sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its one lip unto its other lip, circular round about; five cubits was its rise, and a measuring tape of thirty cubits would surround it round about”
Nothing about a rim?
But that’s what you added. Did it say that in the Bible?
With no measurements of the brim I can’t see how this changes anything.1 Kings 7:26
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
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