As far as I know Greek philosophers knew at that time Earth was round, but how about the apostles and the early Church?
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I'd imagine that they believed God's word, which says that the earth was round and suspended in space. (Isaiah 40:22, Job 26:7) Some being sailors, they may have noticed the curvature of the earth revealed as a ship comes over the horizon. I was told by a history teacher that's how the Greeks came to believe that the earth was round.As far as I know Greek philosophers knew at that time Earth was round, but how about the apostles and the early Church?
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They were non-material men living in a material world. Meaning they all grew up in a Hellenistic society and would be familiar or even educated in the current science and philosophy.As far as I know Greek philosophers knew at that time Earth was round, but how about the apostles and the early Church?
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As far as I know Greek philosophers knew at that time Earth was round, but how about the apostles and the early Church?
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The Almagest, a standard textbook of the mediaeval period, explicitly says the world is round. Contrary to popular belief, they didn't think the earth flat; nor did people think Columbus would sail off the edge - they distrusted his calculations of distance, but he found India (America) to prove them 'wrong'. Afterall, the Spanish monarchs funded him. Maybe some simple folk, but the educated have not believed a flat earth for more than 2 millenia in most of Europe.I doubt it. The Greeks knew the world was round thousands of years before using oblisks to calculate the earth's circumference. Is was more a medieval trend to believe it flat.
I feel the NASA posts coming along as well....and here we go.....
...and here we go.....
Maybe some simple folk, but the educated have not believed a flat earth for more than 2 millenia in most of Europe.
Doesn't mean a thing. It is a translation choice to describe a flat piece of land.I guess arch-protestant martyr William Tyndale bucked the system then:
2nd Samuel 11:11 ( And Uriah said unto David. The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents, and my Lord Joab, and the servants of my Lord , are encamped in the open fields , shall i then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife ? As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. ) Shrewd Manager I did not find? Which word for flat is used ?I guess arch-protestant martyr William Tyndale bucked the system then:
He is translating 'Open Fields' here for 'Flat Earth' in Tyndale's. It has nothing whatsoever to do with cosmogony, but the terrain they camped upon.2nd Samuel 11:11 ( And Uriah said unto David. The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents, and my Lord Joan, and the servants of my Lord , are encamped in the open fields , shall i then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife ? As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. ) Shrewd Manager I did not find? Which word for flat is used ?
I don't know enough about Tyndale, but I'd bet money on him not thinking the earth literally flat.
Is the moon flat? The sun? If so are we just happening to see their flat sides? I mean, come on man...Every other heavenly body out there is a sphere.Nobody else made that 'translation choice'. It's a 1537 edition, in the wake of Cristobal Colon's grand opening tour of 1492. I daresay it speaks volumes as to the controversy in the minds of the truly saved. Forget the others you mention, they're all merely stage actors steeped in pagan traditions and convention.
You'll find that cartography did not become 3D until around that time, the first Mercator projection appearing 1569. Strange days indeed. Of course, no navigator or surveyor ever allows for curvature in charting practice to this day. It's just another bogus 'transform equation'.
Strong's Hebrew: 6440. פָּנִים (panim or paneh) -- face, facesWhich word for flat is used ?
Ptolemy already had latitude and longitude to describe places (though imperfect) in the Almagest. We see mediaeval maps like the mappa mundi of Hereford attempt primitive projection, although of necessity drawing it in a circle therefore - though this wasn't a problem, as following Augustine, they thought the Antipodes of the earth uninhabited.Nobody else made that 'translation choice'. It's a 1537 edition, in the wake of Cristobal Colon's grand opening tour of 1492. I daresay it speaks volumes as to the controversy in the minds of the truly saved. Forget the others you mention, they're all merely stage actors steeped in pagan traditions and convention.
You'll find that cartography did not become 3D until around that time, the first Mercator projection appearing 1569. Strange days indeed. Of course, no navigator or surveyor ever allows for curvature in charting practice to this day. It's just another bogus 'transform equation'.