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To: Marie2
This cartoon fails, because God didn’t say...

Revelation 7:1 "And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." (KJV)

Hmmm... sounds flat to me.

Lots of eminent 'scientists' believed the earth was flat back in the day, by the way.

Wrong again. With the exception of some early Christians who rejected the "pagan absurdity" of a spherical earth, after about 300 BC few educated people doubted the earth was a sphere.

13 posted on 05/05/2009 11:05:20 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

“Revelation 7:1 “And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.” (KJV)”

This is poetry. Scripture is full of poetry. It’s not a literal description of the formation of the earth.

The literal description of the formation of the earth is in Genesis 1. God does not say it’s flat.

Isaiah 40:22:

“He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Scripture also, for instance, talks about “sunrise.” As do you and I. Although we all know it’s the earth’s rotation.

When you say “We watched the sunrise” are you saying that the sun circles the earth? I think not.

Nothing in Scripture denies a spherical earth.


16 posted on 05/06/2009 12:03:12 AM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: stormer
Revelation 7:1 "And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." (KJV)

Guess you've never heard of "figure of speeches"? Like how, just the other day, I saw a newspaper use this exact same term? Guess this means the editor "really" thinks the earth is flat.

Nevertheless, you sound like you're sorely in need of an education.

22 posted on 05/06/2009 8:04:09 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Third Parties are for the weak, fearful, and ineffectual among us.)
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