Please quote specific scripture that mentions Native Americans, the western hemisphere, the grand canyon, ANY proof that God gave evidence of this half of the world existing before it was "discovered".
I will convert today if you can show me that there is any evidence that the authors of the Bible knew about the other 90 million people living here at the time.
Thanks!
2007-06-15 05:27:24 · 15 answers · asked by LoneRanger 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is not one sentence, verse or anything else in the Bible which specifically mentions the "new" world (North and South America). What is in the Bible leaves alot to interpretation and depending on who is doing the interpretation, you will get different answers to this question. One other verse that has not been mentioned elsewhere in any of the answers yet given, and I'm paraphrasing this now...Jesus said something to the effect..."Other sheep have I and I go now unto them" or something like that...Which could mean other people in other places on earth, or it could simply mean to the next town or country.
Mormon's believe that a family left the middle east and traveled by boat to what is now the northern part of South America, and the verse I paraphrased means that Jesus was coming to this continent to preach to them. They also believe that the Native Americans as we now them are the remnants of a once mighty and widespread civilization (decendents of those who traveled here by boat) known as the Lamanites. This fits somewhat with the facts that the oldest "ruins" in the "western" world are in Central and South America, not in the north where you would expect to find them if the Native American's all migrated from Asia via a land bridge across what is now the Bering Sea.
And don't forget the Bible as we have it today has been translated multiple times from different languages, and we have NO gaurantee that what we have to day is what was originally written...We have to use a little faith and ask for help when we read it....
2007-06-15 14:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by Coolrogue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No mention of most of the earth, including the entire Western Hemisphere, Australia, Japan, Norway, etc.
2016-03-20 19:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by Snance 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The writers of the Bible didn't even know there was a western hemisphere.
2016-04-01 09:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The humans that wrote the bible did not know about the western hemisphere at the time. They also believed that the world was flat.
2007-06-15 05:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by Biggus Dickus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well now is your time to convert. Jesus say whosoever will let him/her come, that includes the whole world, Now Turn to Rev.12:13-16 This is talking about Israel fleeing from the ant-christ, She will be taken to a place God has prepared, & that is into the wilderness, What country was ever formed out of the wilderness, North America, which includes The United States & Canada, When other people came to this continent it was a wilderness. And Israel will have to flee far enough away from the anti-christ that the anti-christ can not touch her, You see where it says the earth helped the woman & the earth opened up her mouth & swallowed up the flood(PEOPLE) that was after Israel.
2007-06-15 05:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
I would love to answer that question on site however there is not enough space. An in depth bible study would give you total and complete understanding of the history of the world from start to finish.
2007-06-15 05:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by tjsixta 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the prophecies pertaining to the Last Days tells us that fire will rain down on the western isles (meaning western lands or continents). Another verse tells us that the Gentiles in the western lands (continents) will have to wait for the Word of God till the man from Tarshish brings it (Columbus?)
2007-06-15 05:39:27 · answer #7 · answered by Julie 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH*, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
*the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia/Oceania http://gge.unb.ca/Research/GEG/LandStudies/worldm.jpg
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020%20;&version=9; Revelation 20 (King James Version)
2007-06-15 05:40:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nope. Why should it? It's a book of revelations to the Jewish people living in the Middle East. It's a book of revelations, not a geography book.
2007-06-15 05:30:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.....ALL THE EARTH. Repent, convert, have a wafer.
2007-06-15 05:32:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋