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To: tired&retired

Actually Job, the oldest book in the Bible acknowledges that the Earth is a sphere suspended on nothing. Any Jew or Christian that studies Scripture knows the earth is round from the time Scripture was recorded


78 posted on 12/13/2017 1:10:41 PM PST by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Mom MD

Except the Catholic Church in the 16th Century..

Per Wiki:

Galileo’s championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system.[4] He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax.[4] The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was “foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture.”[4][5][6] Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point.[4] He was tried by the Inquisition, found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, and forced to recant.


84 posted on 12/13/2017 1:32:33 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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