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, …
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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 …
Jewish cosmology was not something entirely novel, but it had some similarities to ANE cosmologies. Most students of the Bible are probably aware that the Old Testament authors followed the cosmological model used in Mesopotamia and Egypt. https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/ … -theology/ It is not likely their portrayal of the universe was attempting to only make metaphysical …
The Greeks were perhaps the most advanced in terms of cosmology of all ancient cultures. We’re not really sure if the ANE cultures actually believed the universe to be shaped like a snowdome, but we do know the Greeks believed the universe was comprised of the Earth in the center of giant spheres. Although there …
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Diogenes wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:48 pm There is a long list of natural phenomena that were once attributed to the gods. They now have scientific explanations: Lightning Earthquakes Rain Hail Snow Floods Volcanoes Beliefs and theories come and go. And pointing to erroneous beliefs held by people thousands of years ago would not …
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Diogenes wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:43 am None of this disputes the fact the Earth is not the center of the universe or that it is immovable as the Bible claims. The Earth isn’t even the center o,f the solar system.. The Biblical cosmology is just plain WRONG. This constitutes the FACT the Genesis …
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