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People believed the earth was flat until the 1600s or so. I think Jesus thought the earth was flat while he was human. Yes, Jesus was perfect - but he was still living in a particular cultural and historical setting (he spoke Aramaic). I don't think, as a human, he had perfect knowledge of everything. Even his father, God, only made things known to Jesus at the right time (eg. when Elijah as sent by God to speak to Jesus). Jesus was both God, and human. In what ways was he God, in what ways was he human??
If Jesus thought the earth was flat, and so did everyone else back then - then the biblical picture of the world was 2D - there was earth, and sky, and they were flat and parallel to each other. There was no 'bigger picture' physically (eg. our galaxy, the universe).
What do you think?

2007-05-20 12:15:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Good question Amelia, don't think anybody could give you a correct answer, since even the Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, Orthodox, Atheists e.c.c don't agree reasonably with one another beside's all the information the've got on the past.....and who can assure you that everything thev've been theaching us since we were kid's is actually the truth? In any case i've been brought up as a Catholic and so since i was a kid i was thought to believe in Jesus Christ (you know i've been kind of brain washed), i went to school in Great Britain in an Irish College (very good pleasant people indeed), so since everybody was so kind and good with one another and giving me many reason's to alway's see the way of life in a good way, even during suffering, i've been believing in Jesus Christ ever since......and what do i personaly think? well i think that since Jesus is capable of doing Miracle's (actually changing anythink to his own will), and since he's God become human? Why should'nt he have known that the world is quite round? if he created it amonst all the universe and galaxies, and who know's what else is up there in the Heavens awaiting for us to be discover'd?????
Well everybody has his one point of view, but in any case you asked a good question, and i also believe that you're a good girl, so God Bless! Greeting's from Italy (i'm been living here for the past 20 year's, beautifull country but there are a lot of fascist thinking people, so i miss Britain a lot!).

2007-05-20 12:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by bat69 2 · 1 0

The ancient Mesopotamians knew the earth was round
The ancient Egyptians used astronomy in their pyramid building calculations which indicated a knowledge of the globe-shaped earth.
The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round - Aristotle's cosmology makes this very clear.
The Venerable Bede in his chronologies written in 703 and 725 respectively calculated the timings of Easter & the vernal equinox based on the assertion that the earth was round, not flat.
Thomas Aquinas also confirmed the earth's roundness based on the works of Aristotle (1225-1274).
John Buriden (1300-1358) also accepted earth's roundness.
As did Nicholas Oresme (1320-1382) and virtually all other major scholars of the medieval period.

Who was backing the flat earth theory if not the major scientific and theological minds of the time? two (relatively) historically insignificant individuals Lactantius (245-325) and Cosmas Indicopleustes who wrote the Christian Topography in 547-549. To claim that the whole of the "dark ages" was backwards because of two men who claimed the earth was flat would be a bit like declaring 1980 - 2010 "Dark ages" of scientific reasoning due to Michael Behe writing Darwin's Black Box and Percival Davis writing Pandas and People.

There are agendas at work in the crafting of a history which takes us from the dark ages and subsequent enlightenment of the renaissance which have rewritten the story of Columbus to include an oppresor threatening heresy. None of it is consistent with recorded history of scientific knowledge.

So to answer your original question: If Jesus was an educated man, then no he would not have believed in a flat earth.

2007-05-20 13:14:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

People have known the Earth is round for a lot longer then 400 years. Eratosthenes, thousands of years ago, showed not only that the Earth was round, but also derived a diameter for the Earth that was very nearly correct!(1). Columbus knew it was round, but didn't know there was anything in between him and Asia.

Matthew 4:8 and Luke 4:5 describe how Satan took Jesus up to the top of a very high mountain and showed him "...all the kingdoms of the world..." Flat-Earthers would say that the would must be flat, because how could you see all the nations of the from the top of a high mountain otherwise.(2)

2007-05-20 12:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Avery 2 · 3 1

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2016-10-05 10:58:08 · answer #4 · answered by gazdecki 4 · 0 0

No since he had a hand in making the earth in his pre-human existence.
Incidentally, 1600 wasn't the first time man knew. A thousand years before Christ, people of God knew the earth was round and hung upon nothing.--Isaiah 40: 22; Job 26: 7

2007-05-20 13:14:32 · answer #5 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1 1

The Bible certainly mentions stars, the moon, and the sun in relation to the earth. No where does the Bible refer to the earth as flat.

They mention direction, i.e. north, south , east, and west, just as we do today. They mention the corners of the earth with respect to directions, which is useful when looking at maps. Maps are two-dimensional even today and usually have four corners.

Jesus was human, in that he was born of a woman and made of flesh and blood, just like you. If one believes that God could appear as a burning bush to Moses, or an angel to Jacob, or in the flesh with Adam, then why would it be such a stretch to believe that he came in the form of a human as Jesus?

Jesus was called "Emmanuel", meaning God with us. He came as an example for all of us to follow, to prove to us it could be done, and as the last living sacrifice for sin. As an example, he showed us how to communicate with God, how to interact with our fellow humans, and what love really meant.

God bless you my friend; may you gain the knowledge you seek in your search for truth.

2007-05-20 12:36:39 · answer #6 · answered by danny_boy_jones 5 · 2 0

No HE did not! How insulting could you be? The Bible says that the earth is round so there was never any reason for ppl to believe anything else. They got that idea because, like today, many ppl chose to disregard the Word of GOD and make up their own ideas. (like evolution)
People would rather believe in the things being taught by superstitious people...like today.

2007-05-20 12:59:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Jesus was with God before the foundations of the world

They were together always through all eternity

Jesus was with the Father when he created it

2007-05-20 12:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted 7 · 1 1

You have got to be joking! He was in Heaven when the earth and all the planets were created. The Bible scripture says "as far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions". This means there is a horizon. If you walk east, you will never meet west and if you walk west, you will never meet east. (Food for thought: when we look up after a storm and see a rainbow, GOD looks down from heaven and sees a smile.)

2007-05-20 12:31:48 · answer #9 · answered by mae m. 3 · 0 2

Jesus came from heaven, he had a first hand view of the earth from above, and he helped to create it, so chances are pretty good that he knew it was a sphere...

(John 8:23) “. . .So he went on to say to them: “YOU are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. YOU are from this world; I am not from this world.”

Col. 1:15-17, RS: “He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation . . . All things were created through him and for him. He is before all things.”

John 17:5, RS: “[In prayer Jesus said:] Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.”

also it is interesting that Isaiah was ins[ired to write the following about the earth, about 2700+ years ago...

(Isaiah 40:22) “. . .There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell,”

(We know that Jesus read from Isaiah because he quoted from it often, so that gives us another reason to trust in the scriptures!...Jesus did.)

And many hundred years before that Moses was insp[ired to write the following about the earth...

(Job 26:7,10) “. . .He is stretching out the north over the empty place, Hanging the earth upon nothing;
10 He has described a circle upon the face of the waters, To where light ends in darkness.”

~wannaknow~

2007-05-20 13:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0 1

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