Does holy scripture teach a "flat Earth"?

[MoreCoffee]

Does holy scripture teach a "flat Earth"?

I would flatly deny that.

 

[tango]

The earth rotated on its own axis more rapidly in its early history was about six hours long. 600 Million years ago it was about 21 hours long. Now it is 24. The change occurs because of a tidal effect which transfers Earth's angular momentum to the moon as orbital momentum. Thus the moon is drifting further away from the earth as the earth's rotation decelerates.

Presumably this is based on some form of extrapolation, rather than first-hand accounts though? In other words, a process that may in future turn out to be inaccurate. That's not to say it is, just that it may be.

 

[Andrew]

So much for round Earth

 

[Arsenios]

There are passages in the holy scriptures that give the impression that the authors thought of the earth as a flat disk-shaped world with foundations and a dome (expanse) above where the stars and sun & moon were and where heaven was. Do you think that is what the holy scriptures intended to be taught?

The creation story of Moses in Genesis is written in the "scientific" world view of his time...

It should be understood in those terms qua science...

eg It is NOT some divinely revealed scientific accounting of the Cosmos and the earth therein...


Arsenios

 

[MoreCoffee]

So much for round Earth

You've been watching too many pseudo-science videos on YouTube

 

[Andrew]

You've been watching too many pseudo-science videos on YouTube

Im starting the "Chewed gumball Earth Society"

 

[Lamb]

Im starting the "Chewed gumball Earth Society"

LOL Well, the earth isn't completely round...but it's not flat either.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-is-not-round/

 

[Josiah]

I've been involved in several discussions of just this....


IN MY OPINION, as a "Bible believing" Protestant but also one with a Ph.D. in physics, is that hermeneutics requires that we not impute OUR views into Scripture via eisegesis. Today, we tend to think like modern scientists and people IMPUTE that thinking and those assumptions into things never so intended. This impacts the Bible quite obviously when it comes to numbers and physics.

I MY fallible (and probably wrong) opinion, Genesis 1-2 and the many verses that suggest that our planet is small, flat and square are simply not teaching geology or astrophysics and that eisegeses of our science assumptions and mindset are inapproprate. The verses are 100% true (and literally so) they just aren't addressing science.




- Josiah



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[MoreCoffee]

I've been involved in several discussions of just this....


IN MY OPINION, as a "Bible believing" Protestant but also one with a Ph.D. in physics, is that hermeneutics requires that we not impute OUR views into Scripture via eisegesis. Today, we tend to think like modern scientists and people IMPUTE that thinking and those assumptions into things never so intended. This impacts the Bible quite obviously when it comes to numbers and physics.

I MY fallible (and probably wrong) opinion, Genesis 1-2 and the many verses that suggest that our planet is small, flat and square are simply not teaching geology or astrophysics and that eisegeses of our science assumptions and mindset are inapproprate. The verses are 100% true (and literally so) they just aren't addressing science.
- Josiah

I think that holy scripture can be read as teaching a flat disc shaped earth. A circle above which are the Heavens and below which are the pillars of the earth, a watery deep holding the waters under the earth from which some of the flood of Noah's day is said to have come, and sheol where the dead abide until judgement day.

If you have seen the introductory commentary to "The Hog Father" then you will get a view of the disc world which - aside from the turtle and elephants - is somewhat like the circular disc mentioned above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UbDSlwAME

 

[Albion]

The Bible also states that Earth is a sphere, so I don't get too excited over debates like this one.

 

[MoreCoffee]

The Bible also states that Earth is a sphere, so I don't get too excited over debates like this one.

Where does the bible state that the earth is a sphere?

 

[Andrew]

Right, the Bible never claims that the Earth is a round sphere nor does it say it is flat, it only says that the circle of the Earth can be seen from Heaven.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Right, the Bible never claims that the Earth is a round sphere nor does it say it is flat, it only says that the circle of the Earth can be seen from Heaven.

Circles are two dimensional

And the passage doesn't say "the circle of the Earth can be seen from Heaven"

 

[Andrew]

"God sits above the circle of the Earth"
This is basically all we have to go by concerning the shape of the Earth, circles are 2 dimensional indeed, MC has just confirmed Flat Earth!
You have done well young 'grasshopper'

 

[JRT]

Nowhere does the Bible explicitly teach a coherent cosmology but on the basis of multiple unrelated verses it seems reasonable to conclude that the dominant Biblical cosmology was of a flat earth. However, the early Christian church quickly adopted the Ptolemaic cosmology of a global earth. I believe this was tied into Christianity losing its Jewish roots in the first century.

 

[Lamb]

"God sits above the circle of the Earth"
This is basically all we have to go by concerning the shape of the Earth, circles are 2 dimensional indeed, MC has just confirmed Flat Earth!
You have done well young 'grasshopper'

The poetic type of verses are not scientific in nature.

 

[Pedrito]

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I think that holy scripture can be read as teaching a flat disc shaped earth.

A disc shaped Earth with four corners, don’t forget.

Maybe it was a prophetic picture of modern mathematics.

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[Andrew]

The poetic type of verses are not scientific in nature.

lol I wasn't being serious

 

[Andrew]

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A disc shaped Earth with four corners, don’t forget.

Maybe it was a prophetic picture of modern mathematics.

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So the Earth is a flat square... confirmed!

 

[Lamb]

lol I wasn't being serious

You weren't???? I thought someone swayed you to the other side :yikes: