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I try to describe how it is for me, from my perspective.
you have such contempt for science how do you reconcile using all it's benefits, like computers and internet?
I said that the Earth is described metaphorically, as in having "four corners" ...
Out of this thread. My head is spinning already!
Out of this thread. My head is spinning already!
No ... it is just an example of the metaphorical language used when describing the earth in the scriptures.Four corners is not used in every mention of earth in scriptures.
Are you arguing that the "four corners of the earth" is not a metaphor ?It refers to the four cardinal points.
Some people believe anything.
Are you arguing that the "four corners of the earth" is not a metaphor ?
What exactly do you mean when you say the "four cardinal points" ?
The aim is to understand. Else, why bother talking?
There's only one truth, but many lies.
Which do you want?
Those are directions.I am not arguing. I am stating plainly; that is not a metaphor. It is a primitive, archaic reference to the four cardinal points.
North, East, West, South.
Only someone rather shallow and lacking curiosity, happy to believe any nonsense they were told.I mean. A ball earth?? Spinning and flung through space like a slingshot??
Who would believe such??
Those are directions.
If you don't test something, how do you know it's truth and not a lie?
Only someone rather shallow and lacking curiosity, happy to believe any nonsense they were told.
An informed, inquisitive, sceptical peson would accept the best explanation currently available for a mutiplicity of observations, confirmed and validated by tens of thousands of tests and millions of daily experiences. They would accept a spinning sphere moving in ellipical orbit about a star, in a universes of many stars. No belief necessary.
The thinking person would see no conflict between the nature of the universe as determined through such observation and investigation, with its nature, as described in words that could be comprehended by a pastoral people lacking advanced knowledge about the nature of the universe.
Insisting upon a literal interpretation of words designed for that culture is an insult to those people and to one's own intellect. I'm OK with the latter, not impressed by the former.
Who's stuck ???
The only circles I am wandering in are the ones followed by our planet, in its daily turns and annual orbits.Lol.
This is a perfect example of someone perambulating in circles from point A to arrive back at point A; and then arguing that point A is in fact point B.
There are zero such scripturesA sizable number of scriptures show, if anything, earth is not a spinning ball.
That is an incorrect and out of context application of that scripture. And, even if it were your first statement would fail that test.We test all things (including science), through God's word.
1. In order to test a thing, you need a reference, a standard, a yardstick.
Now 2, is where you're stuck.
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