Snow dome myth

As I’ve argued, the claim people in the Middle ages believed in a flat earth is entirely fictional. It served as a convenient attack against the “ignorant” people of the past, in particular the Medieval church. Diogenes wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:50 am ‘The Church’ believed the Bible described the Earth as a flat …

Flat earth myth

otseng wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:02 pm Another reason we should doubt the skeptics’ argument that the Biblical authors were claiming the universe is actually a snow dome is the skeptics have made similar claims that the church, in particular during the Middle ages, believed the earth was flat, which in reality is a …

Why would a single author include two versions of the creation story?

Diogenes wrote: ↑Sun Jul 24, 2022 7:31 pm Why would a single author include two contradictory versions of the creation story? It is presenting two different perspectives of the same event. We see parallelism throughout the Bible where one account of something is told and then repeated again in another way. We see this done …

Raqia is better translated as expanse rather than firmament

Goat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 3:45 pmYou also have to point to evidence, and then show WHY that data is evidence for your proposition. Just pointing to data, and saying it is evidence of xyz without convergence of evidence and a testable model doesn’t make that data evidence of any specific proposition. Of course. …

Metaphor

Diogenes wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:04 pm  Metaphors are based upon a reference to reality. The original authors, like everyone else of their era except the Greeks around 500 BCE, believed the Earth was a disk. The Genesis story reflects this belief. They actually believed the Earth was flat. A metaphor is not literally …

In the beginning

Diogenes wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:24 pm It is easy, easy as pie; a flat pie with a dome over it. Jewish scholars understand the metaphorical or literary nature of these stories. They are not, therefore, motivated to stretch the meanings of the original to fit some apologist’s need. Yes, I agree it is …

The Church believed the Bible described the Earth as a flat disk for centuries

Diogenes wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:50 am ‘The Church’ believed the Bible described the Earth as a flat disk for Centuries, I’m not so sure. At the time of the Aristotelian system, people believed in a spherical Earth, which was hundreds of years before the church came about. In the fully developed Aristotelian system, …

Firmament

Let’s look closer at what the Bible says about the firmament. Gen 1:6-8 (KJV) 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the …