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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
" The Bible describes a flat earth "

How so ?

Actually the Bible is what told us that the earth was round well before man had a telescope or way before man discovered it was round thousands of years later.
The Bible says that " God sit's upon the " CIRCLE " of the earth.

Here it is

KJV

Isaiah 40:22

It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

I do see and believe that the word " CIRCLE " is in that sentence.
23 posted on 02/13/2013 3:22:56 PM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

Circles are flat. The Old Testament reflects cosmology as it was understood in the Middle East in the First Millennium, BC. I have always taken much of the bible as allegorical, rather than literal. It was written to reveal God to man, not necessarily the puzzles of His works, which he left to us to figure out.


24 posted on 02/13/2013 3:52:59 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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