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To: Olog-hai
"The spherical earth is affirmed in the Bible. Never mind endless observation from our aircraft and spacecraft, and proven long before that by multiple circumnavigations of the globe in ships."

It says "circle", not "sphere".

The Bible is not a scientific source and doesn't affirm or disaffirm physics.

25 posted on 02/26/2018 11:46:36 AM PST by mlo
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To: mlo

No; it says “khug” in Hebrew, which can be translated “sphere”. (The same word is translated “vault” in Job 22:14, indicating three dimensions; this is in the NLT, ESV, NASB, and others.)

There would be no way to circumnavigate a disk-shaped planet. There would also be no curvature from pole to pole.

The Bible is more scientific than a lot of our so-called “science”, which according to the scientific method must be based on observation first, and observation plus the Hebrew original of the Bible indicate the sphere.


28 posted on 02/26/2018 12:20:15 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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