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To: Tribune7

From you link:

"Nor did this situation [flat earth] change with the advent of Christianity. A few--at least two and at most five--early Christian fathers denied the sphericity of earth by mistakenly taking passages such as Ps. 104:2-3 as geographical rather than metaphorical statements."


391 posted on 03/01/2005 12:03:32 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey
And now for the rest of the story.

"On the other side tens of thousands of Christian theologians, poets, artists, and scientists took the spherical view throughout the early, medieval, and modern church. The point is that no educated person believed otherwise."

393 posted on 03/01/2005 12:08:43 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: WildTurkey
"Nor did this situation [flat earth] change with the advent of Christianity. A few--at least two and at most five--early Christian fathers denied the sphericity of earth by mistakenly taking passages such as Ps. 104:2-3 as geographical rather than metaphorical statements."

Oh come on now:

A few--at least two and at most five--early Christian fathers denied the sphericity of earth by mistakenly taking passages such as Ps. 104:2-3 as geographical rather than metaphorical statements. On the other side tens of thousands of Christian theologians, poets, artists, and scientists took the spherical view throughout the early, medieval, and modern church. The point is that no educated person believed otherwise.

395 posted on 03/01/2005 12:17:49 PM PST by Tribune7
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