or that the sun was actually a star, like a big burning planet. Do you realise, back then we did not know that.....
Do you ever forget that fact?
Or do you act like ancient beleivers had today's knowledge at hand.....??
Lazarus, sorry for all these Q's, don't feel obliged to answer...
Peace
2007-11-07 23:39:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Impeyen, you guys come up with something new everytime. STOP pulling facts out of your ***.....
2007-11-07 23:52:02 · update #1
For that matter, the entire book that most religions hold up as their guide was written with limited knowledge about the world the writers lived in and the couple of million miles around it.
2007-11-07 23:43:19 · answer #1 · answered by timbers 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Bible writers did not have all the "facts" that we have today.
But that does not stop them from being able to deal with "truths". Men have been dealing with those from even before the time of the Bible.
In that time, the question that men struggle wit have not changed. "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" "What is the purpose for my life?" "How do I relate to God?" "How do I relate to others?" "What happens after death?"
None of those questions are answers by knowledge about the shape of the earth. Your purpose is not altered if the world flat rather then round. Relarionship are not changed by whether the earth revolves or the sun revolves.
Human nature has not changed in the centuries since the Bible was compiled. The truths that the writers learned then are just as valid in our world today. Nothing in sicentific facts alters any of them.
They might give us more insight into WHY people think or doing certain things, but it does not change the morality of the actions. ("Before we understood the criminal mind, crime was bad. But now that we know what causes it crime is good.")
Isaac Newton did not understand black holes and dark matter. Should we reject his discoveries in math and creation of calculus because of that?
Charles Darwim did not under atomic fusion. Should we reject his ideas on evolution because he had no idea about nuclear reactions?
Albert Einstein had no knowledge of microprocessors, binary code, and hash function for sorting, so should we reject his discoveries on relativity?
Stephen Hawkings does not understand the things that we will discovered 100 years from now, so do we ignore all his current wisdom because he does not know the future?
Just because the Bible writers did not have all of today's scientific "facts" does not invalidate their religious "truths". The two have very little to do with each other.
2007-11-07 23:57:13 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not quite accurate...
The writers of the Old Testament knew that the earth was round....some thousands of years before even Jesus.
(Job 26:7) He is stretching out the north over the empty place, Hanging the earth upon nothing;
A very accurate word-picture of the earth as it looks like from space.
(Job 26:10) He has described a circle upon the face of the waters, To where light ends in darkness.
Another word-picture of the effect of the shadow of the moon on the earth duruing an eclipse.
(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,
Again, the shape of the earth and an indication opf the size of it.
ALL in the time before Jesus.
This accurate, though vague, information could have given the Phoenician sailoprs the courage to circumnavigate Africa. And maybe even travel to Central America.
2007-11-07 23:57:59 · answer #3 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is true of course. However fast forward to the last hundred years or so ... many seem to be still trying to apply Darwin's 19th century thinking to a 21st century reality, and it doesn't work. Explanations from the steamboat era are no longer adequate in the world of cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, biology in this age. The only option left is that God exists! It is turning out that those 'ancient believers' were on to something after all!
2007-11-07 23:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually Job 26 v 7 refers to the earth being suspended over nothing. Clearly the Bible was aware of our planetary nature.
2007-11-07 23:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by Don 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually we identified planets other than our own about 2,500-3,000 years ago.
We did not know what they where made of the sizes or the distances but humanity was aware of their existence.
Why do you think the planets are for the most part named after Gods, that have not been commonly worshipped in 1,700 years?
2007-11-07 23:47:56 · answer #6 · answered by Link strikes back 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
ask away my friend i enjoy this-as for this question-no i havent forgotten-a lot of the time i spend wondering what will happen in the next one thousand years-try to imagine where we will be at as a species-what will we have learned-----spend a night laying outside looking at the stars and just wondering------smile and enjoy the day
2007-11-07 23:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by lazaruslong138 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who were the Magi? The guys that studied the heavenly bodies. Thousands of years ago.
GOD BLESS
2007-11-08 00:10:55 · answer #8 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope. I always remember that 1000 years ago we had no idea there were other planets. I actually remember that it was closer to 500 years ago.
2007-11-07 23:42:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
no we didn't forget but what that's change for what that we are believes or not
Copernicus said the Earth is circular & it is turning around the sun in a religius way that sow us religius had thee knowing power in the past
2007-11-07 23:52:06 · answer #10 · answered by kh-snake 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋