Comment Re:In other news (Score 1) 191
Bible Proof of a round earth:
Job 26:7 "7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
(like the sun & moon-- both spherical...)
Job 26:10 "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end"
Isaiah 40:21-22 "21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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"
Proverbs 8:27 "When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,"
Note, though: For a LARGE part of history, people did not have a copy of the Bible in their own language to read. (if they could even read in the first place) They were dependent on what The Church told them it said. ...
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c03 4.htm l "Flat-Earth HeyDay Came with Darwin
The idea that the earth is flat is a modern concoction that reached its peak only after Darwinists tried to discredit the Bible, an American history professor says.
Jeffrey Burton Russell is a professor of history at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He says in his book Inventing the Flat Earth (written for the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's journey to America in 1492) that through antiquity and up to the time of Columbus, 'nearly unanimous scholarly opinion pronounced the earth spherical.'
Russell says there is nothing in the documents from the time of Columbus or in early accounts of his life that suggests any debate about the roundness of the earth. He believes a major source of the myth came from the creator of the Rip Van Winkle story-Washington Irving-who wrote a fictitious account of Columbus's defending a round earth against misinformed clerics and university professors."
Job 26:7 "7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing."
(like the sun & moon-- both spherical...)
Job 26:10 "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end"
Isaiah 40:21-22 "21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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"
Proverbs 8:27 "When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,"
Note, though: For a LARGE part of history, people did not have a copy of the Bible in their own language to read. (if they could even read in the first place) They were dependent on what The Church told them it said.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c0
The idea that the earth is flat is a modern concoction that reached its peak only after Darwinists tried to discredit the Bible, an American history professor says.
Jeffrey Burton Russell is a professor of history at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He says in his book Inventing the Flat Earth (written for the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's journey to America in 1492) that through antiquity and up to the time of Columbus, 'nearly unanimous scholarly opinion pronounced the earth spherical.'
Russell says there is nothing in the documents from the time of Columbus or in early accounts of his life that suggests any debate about the roundness of the earth. He believes a major source of the myth came from the creator of the Rip Van Winkle story-Washington Irving-who wrote a fictitious account of Columbus's defending a round earth against misinformed clerics and university professors."
