why did Christians used to think Heaven were nothgin but spheres that hovered over the earth.. is this what god told you? why don't you still believe that if this is what god told you?
2007-05-02 10:13:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, it was a pagan Greek philosopher named Plato who said that.
In medieval times, all science was based on ancient Greek(pre-christian) science, so all astronomy was based on Greek astronomy.
Get your facts straight.
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...Although he was not a creative mathematician, Plato (427-347 BCE) included the quadrivium as the basis for philosophical education in the Republic. He encouraged a younger mathematician, Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 410 BCE-c. 347 BCE), to develop a system of Greek astronomy.
According to a modern historian of science, David Lindberg:
"In their work we find (1) a shift from stellar to planetary concerns, (2) the creation of a geometrical model, the "two-sphere model," for the representation of stellar and planetary phenomena, and (3) the establishment of criteria governing theories designed to account for planetary observations." (Lindberg 1992, p. 90)
The two-sphere model is a geocentric model. It divides the cosmos into two regions:
A spherical Earth, central and motionless (the sublunary sphere).
A spherical heavenly realm centered on the Earth, which may contain multiple rotating spheres made of aether
Plato's main books on cosmology are the "Timaeus" and the "Republic". In them he described the two-sphere model and said there were eight circles or spheres carrying the seven planets and the fixed stars. He put the celestial objects in the following order, beginning with the one closest to Earth...
2007-05-02 10:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spheres hovering over the earth? Where did you hear that? god didn't say that at all. I don't believe it because He didn't say it in the first place.
2007-05-02 17:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by Micah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me ask you then... Why did white people think the world was flat? Would you still believe it if that's what scientists told you?
2007-05-02 17:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heaven to me is a place where my heavenly father lives, and there he prepares a place for me. He said in my house there are many mansions. If you do not know christ ask him in your heart today.
2007-05-02 17:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by dancinintherain 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wheres your references to these spheres?
2007-05-02 17:19:01 · answer #5 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess I never heard that one could you name your soarces?
2007-05-02 17:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by Tzadiq 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never thought that and have known anybody who thought that.
2007-05-02 17:31:09 · answer #7 · answered by Old Hickory 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, that's what the Europenas thought.
2007-05-02 17:19:15 · answer #8 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋