I've heard from some of you that you can't pick and choose which parts of the Bible to believe, unless it actually says so, like a parable for example.
Matthew 4:8 says, “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory.”
If you reckon Genesis is the literal truth, do you also think the earth is flat? It doesn't actually state that the earth is flat, true, but the above would only be possible if it was. Perhaps Satan used magic to display the whole world. Why then go moutaineering?
Isiah 11:12 also seems to think that it is square, or at least some kind of quadrilateral. "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Are there mistakes in the Bible, which was written some time ago by people with a lesser understanding of the world than ourselves? Or is the world really flat? Your call.
2007-08-16
12:09:28
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Citizen Justin
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