The bible says that Jesus was God in the flesh. So here's my question, why didn't someone think to ask Him if the earth was round? Why did it take until 1492 when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic for everyone to know that the earth was round?
2006-10-27 12:05:15 · 33 answers · asked by Docta Jones 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Someone should of asked him**lol**But honestly so many people thought he was crazy they may not of believed him!God-Bless ya!
2006-10-27 12:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by Erica B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, back then that was the belief. So why ask? Nobody doubted it.
But you do bring up a point. People back then just didn't know jack. So they reasoned and applied God to the equation when they couldn't explain things. So lightning bolts were gods throwing a fit. Volcanoes was a pissed off god. The Earth was the center of the universe. Why not? All they could see was the sun going across the sky, the Earth never moved. Still can't really answer correctly; How'd we get here? Why are we here? But throw God into that equation then it all makes since. Convenient!
Sometimes I wonder if we will ever wake up and put aside our crude dawn of society mentality. Are we ever going to say; wait a minute!, if I upgrade my brain/mind software then I can see things in a new light? And then you will know that there is not "a" good and "a" bad. It is all the same, one thing. Like a magnet can't have just a negative or just a positive. They gotta have each other.
Am I making any since here at all?
Steve
2006-10-27 12:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by steve 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not say anywhere that the earth is flat. Isaiah 40:22 says that it is round. The word for circle can also be translated sphere in Hebrew. If you are referring possibly to a mention of the four corners of the earth or something like that, you need to understand that in Hebrew (language of the Old Testament) the word ERETS means either earth or land. So it would mean the corners of the land. If the people then are gathered from the "four corners of the earth" which is a saying that we would use in English, one could easily also say from the four corners of the land.
2006-10-27 12:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ancient Greeks knew. the info had been around for ages. That whole thing about Columbus thinking the Earth was flat is all a big lie.
2006-10-27 12:06:56 · answer #4 · answered by Ivy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was not God in the flesh. The Bible says that no man has ever seen God. Yet many saw Jesus.
2006-10-27 12:14:20 · answer #5 · answered by la la la 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Greeks knew the earth was round in 230 BC, when Eratosthenes measured the diameter of it using the angle of the sun, much as kids do today in high school math classes. It was the middle ages Europeans (aka Christians) who thought it was flat.
2006-10-27 12:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Philo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is not God in the flesh. His word is non different than the word of God because God is speaking through Him (Holy Ghost) He is the son of God and so are you. He is just fully realized his eternal relationship with God and came to teach others how to do the same. We are to follow in his footsteps. He was not interested in mundane topics about the earth etc. but if they would have asked him he could have told them.
2006-10-27 12:10:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may have. But if he answered the question in accordance with what people thought back then which was that the world is flat, when we discovered that the world is round, the people in charge of deciding what goes in the bible would have stricken it from the record.
We'll never know.
2006-10-27 12:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by the guru 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a bible thumper...ITdid mention these matters 2,000 years ago ! the free Masons were a major influence on the King James version of the western bible.....1600 years latter !! The Catholicity's wanted to kill those who believed the Sun didn't rotate around the Earth (Galieo)....don't take my word for it ....
2006-10-27 12:15:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus only had 33 years here. He couldn't get into Geography, Geometry, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy....He was busy trying to teach people about love and even that message got twisted and abused over the past couple 1000 years.
2006-10-27 12:11:07 · answer #10 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he would have turned them down flat. He would have flat out told them that they need to get around more. Why on earth would he tell anyone? I think that many Europeans knew the Earth was round before Colombus's voyages.
2006-10-27 12:09:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋