I don't feel like searching through that tome looking for it, but I've seen this assertation a few times here on R&S. A little help? Christians what do you make of it?
2007-09-13 06:12:21 · 5 answers · asked by Drake the Deist 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't....
2007-09-13 06:18:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
1 Kings 7:24 and the repetition at 2 Chronicles 4:3
2007-09-13 13:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another instance is in the specifications for Solomon's temple in I Kings.
What do I make of it? Not much really. You think I'd completely stop believing in God just because the writers of the Bible weren't good at math?
For some interesting nerdy reading check out the history of pi: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
2007-09-13 13:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
1 Kings 7:23
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
Do the math, and this claims that pi=3
2007-09-13 13:18:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't say it anywhere. Whoever implied that is BS'ing you.
2007-09-13 13:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋