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FLAT or ROUND Earth?
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Yikes. Now I'm going to be in trouble over in the gender pronoun thread.
But I called her 'bach' earlier (Welsh for boy - she's from Wales) and wasn't corrected. Ah well...
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Well, we actually use the English word. But because a single f in Welsh is pronounced as a 'v', we make it a double f. So it's 'fflat'. Weird bloody language...
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And God made two great lights.... And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the land
Genesis 1:16-17
[ Genesis 1:10 Genesis 1:8 ]
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Doesn't say they are of equal measure. That is something you made up.
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Clear as day.
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Flat ... right?
Not quite.
Let's see if we can find a passage that gives it just one more dimension.
Isaiah 40:22a It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
Up in the air, sitting on a circle, and looking down.
Not sitting on an arc ... sitting on a circle.
Conclusion: the earth is round.
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A circle is not the same thing as a sphere.
Conclusion: your reliance on Bible quotes to determine the shape of the Earth is inadequate. Fortunately there is more than enough science to demonstrate it is a sphere.
Flawed* interpretation of scripture by random blokes on the internet can take a hike.
*Flaw free interpretations are welcome.
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If the earth is flat, why can't we have line-of-sight communication from the moon to England and New Zealand simultaneously?
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"Sitting on a circle" does seem to be clear as day, but it does not suggest a sphere to me.
Or to Google Image Search. The space age Ball Chair is closest, but probably not what Isaiah had in mind.
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I like that bottom left picture.
Only put the man, who is sitting IN the egg chair, and put him sitting ON TOP of the egg chair, looking down.
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That really seems like an unnecessary step of logic to try and justify circle to mean sphere...
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Again, let's not just look at the circle.
There's also that passage I quoted about "as far as the east is from the west."
Put the two passages together, and you have an east-west plane with a north-south circle.
In other words, a three dimensional sphere.
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