When did you stop believing that the Earth was flat and We are the centre of the Universe and that That the Sun and all the planets
revolve around us
2006-07-12 19:40:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dang! I thought that was the same scientific genius' that used to "bleed" us when we got sick.... and the same genius' that have ruined the envirionment and the planet with thier technology!
2006-07-12 19:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Psalms 93 and 104, and Ecclesiastes 1:5 speak of the motion of celestial bodies and the suspended position of the earth.
Thats the part the inquisition question Galileo over. Why would be God's word be open to interpretation?
If he is open to interpretation couldn't I say God is a bit of a joker and that the Bible is supposed to be sarcastic?
2006-07-13 02:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
C'mon, this is like asking doctors when they stopped believing that bleeding someone would cure them of the common cold.
By the way, the book of Leviticus speaks of the roundness of the earth. Ancient man was really, really smart. We're the stupid ones!
2006-07-13 03:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by Paul McDonald 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, personally, never did believe any of those things. Did you? I'd be willing to bet your ancestors did, just as mine surely did.
If you mean to ask when the Church stopped insisting that those ideas were true, I think it goes back to the Renaissance, when learning and reason began to take precedence over tradition and blind faith.
2006-07-13 02:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Allan S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm always? Why this belief the Bible said the earth was flat. Oh yea, interpretation with no context. Got it.
2006-07-13 02:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, you can't make Christians look stupid just by pinning history's fallacies on us, or even by trying to associate us with blind faith and ignorance, we don't admire being close minded any more than you do.
Commendable effort though.
2006-07-13 02:58:31 · answer #6 · answered by C_Bass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋