The bible was written by the same people who thought the world was flat.?

Question

Isn't that interesting?

After reading most of your responses, I find it just as interesting that everyone has such divided and passionate opinions about this subject.

Isn't it great!

Being descended from a group of people does not make me think like them. But what you said, made me laugh. Thanks for that.

It's just like hitting a hornet's nest with a stick, isn't it?

And if it wasn't an interesting thought why are so many of you swarming around the statement?

Whenever you make the masses this angry...you must be getting somewhere.

I love the history lessons. I love the lessons in human reaction even more!

Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

No...

Eratosthenes CALCULATED the equatorial circumference of the earth sometime around 200 B.C.

The shape of the earth was relatively common knowledge 2 centuries before the time of Christ.

I emphasize CALCULATED because:
His raw data did not come from points on the equator, but roughly the Tropic of Cancer
He measured with significant accuracy the time required for the earth's movement to place the sun directly overhead at one point to directly overhead at another point some known distance away and the length of a day. The ratio of these times and some minor trigonometry were then used to "compute the distance along the equator that the the sun "travels" in a day."

The accuracy of timepieces available 2200 years ago leaves a lot to be desired, but his precision was astounding.

Wiki has a good discussion of this and other things this ancient mathematician was able to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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The ancients were not the naive people that they are often made out to be.

They UNDERSTOOD many things that were later "lost" or "forgotten" through the misguided efforts of the Catholic church.

Answer 2

They believed in Claudius Ptolemy's model; that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the stars were affixed on a celestial dome known as the firmament. The planets, Moon and Sun traveled around the Earth through the 12 Houses of the Zodiac on what we today call the Plane of the Elliptic. The Earth was viewed as either flat or curved, but the Mediterranean Sea was in the geographic center.

Two centuries before Jesus lived a Greek Eratosthenes successfully calculated the circumference of the Earth, but such knowledge was absent Ptolemy's geocentric model.

Four centuries before Jesus lived, Anaxagoras proposed that the Moon and planets are composed of the same materials that compose the Earth, and that the Sun is a large hot glowing rock. He also showed that the Moon reflects light rather than emits its own. In Genesis, the Moon is called a lamp like the Sun, clearly erroneous.

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Answer 3

NO that Idea came from the so called scientist of their time, I often refer to that fact when laughing about their big bang theory being equally stupid. check your early bible stories as the tower of Babel and how people were scattered abroad. that term still used to describe people on other continents, the idea the world was flat was the scientific community that laughed at Columbus, and before that Greek philosophers considered to be the scientist of their day, and all the way down the line scientist insisted the world was flat until proved wrong. still they behave the same way about everything that is their theory, and teach it as fact and other gullible people sware by their theories and learned nothing from them teaching the world was flat. just like they tell you how the earth is made even draw you maps of the inside, when they have not been inside the earth. Just like they drew maps of a flat earth before. but go ahead blame that on the religious if you want today's science contains a lot of lies and guesses anyway. If you bothered to read the bible you would not find anywhere a belief that the earth is flat for the holy word contains only the truth. If the writers as you said believed that to be true they would have said so. Wouldn't they?
also the true writer of the bible is smarter than me and you or anybody you know.

Answer 4

Wouldn't it be nice if people were educated enough to have a clue about what they are attempting to discuss?

I know education is often considered over rated, but, I always thought literacy was held in high esteem.

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Guess what. The Bible does not say the world is flat.

That is a widely held misconception among illiterate people who believe that western Europe comprises the entire world and that all education and scientific study in the universe ceased when a Christian Church gained political control over a very small section of the planet.

Take for example the ridiculous idea that some have that "circle of the Earth" means the planet was shapped like a plate. In fact the Hebrew word, as anyone educated enough to coment on the subject, "chuwg" also means sphere, circuit, compass about. Circle was just a concept that was easier for most people to understand than the idea of a sphere and so the word was translated into sphere.

Unlike so many "atheist Biblical commentators" the translators of the Bible understood their audience and, just like translators do today, they made the language understandable. People had no idea what a Temple Prostitute was so the word Pornia was translated into Fornication.

Answer 5

a hassle-loose fake impact looks interior the e book worldwide with out end, by using Roger Pilkington. the author says: “each and all the writers of the previous testomony acknowledged the Earth as a flat plate.” as quickly as lower back, the Bible is made to look to contradict technology. yet does it? evaluate 2 scriptures that incorporate descriptions of the earth. One says: “[God] is stretching out the north over the empty place, putting the earth upon no longer something.” (interest 26:7) the different says: “[God] is residing above the circle of the earth.”—Isa. 40:22. Now those scriptures weren't written with a view to grant a technology lesson. Their purpose became to help us to get exhilaration from the majesty of Jehovah’s Godship. yet could you're saying the image that emerges—of a around earth putting in empty area—is unscientific? extremely, that is a extraordinary description of precisely what astronauts see whilst they shuttle in area. Mr. Pilkington in basic terms became fallacious whilst he suggested: “each and all the writers of the previous testomony acknowledged the Earth as a flat plate.” with reference to the form of the earth, The Encyclopedia Americana says: “The earliest conventional image that adult men had of the earth became that it became a flat, inflexible platform on the middle of the universe. . . . the seen a around earth became no longer notably common until the Renaissance.” some early navigators even feared crusing off the sting of the flat earth! yet, then, the advent of the compass and different advancements made attainable longer ocean voyages. those “voyages of discovery,” yet another encyclopedia explains, “confirmed that the worldwide became around, no longer flat as maximum individuals had believed.” yet long until now such voyages, in actuality, approximately 2,seven hundred years in the past, the Bible suggested: “there is one that is residing above the circle of the earth, the dwellers wherein are as grasshoppers.” (Isaiah 40:22) The Hebrew be conscious chugh, translated “circle,” may additionally recommend “sphere,” as such reference works as Davidson’s Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon coach. different translations, hence, say “the globe of the earth” (Douay version), and “the around earth.” (Moffatt) as a effect the Bible became no longer stimulated by using the misguided, flat-earth view usual whilst it became written. It became precise.

Answer 6

whats the point in all of this? They didnt have the technology that we have now to know for sure that its not flat. 100 years from now someone will come up with a great idea that we didnt..its the way things are. If you mean to say that the people who wrote the Bible were stupid..probably..again we have far more knowledge about things now, then before. However, the "smart man" that came up with the atom bomb, the weapon known as a gun, and other "great" inventions, also found ways that we as humans can destroy ourselves..so whos the dummy??

Answer 7

Actually few people ever believed the world was flat. That's an urban legend.

When Columbus sailed to the new world the debate wasn't over how round or flat the earth was, it was over its diameter. Some thought it was large and some thought it was small. Columbus was a small-earth guy. That's why he thought when he got to the Caribbean that he was near India.

And of course most of the Bible was written a couple thousand years before that and was based on older written and oral material that had been passed down for thousands of years before that.

Answer 8

Lets not forget that the same people that told us that everyone starts out as a man in the womb but a birth defect caused by "moist southern winds" turned them into women. Are the same people that wrote the King James "Version" of their bible. Gotta love historical facts

Answer 9

What I find interesting is that the Bible does give the impression that the world is flat AND square. In Revelations, don't they say something about the four horsemen sitting at the corners of the earth? sounds flat and square to me!

Answer 10

Not interesting at all. You are very wrong. Get the facts straight. This is what the Bible said about 2500 years ago.

Isa 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;