answer me this unbelievers

MAYBE · 12-23-2007, 01:41 PM

if the bible is not inspired of God how did a man living over 3000 years ago know this

Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.

this was a time when people thought the earth was flat

and don't give me the earth is technically a sphere non-nonsense, a man living at that time would have translated what he saw in a vision as best he could especially since there is no word for sphere in hebrew

amen friends

**Skepticologist** · 12-23-2007, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by MAYBE

if the bible is not inspired of God how did a man living over 3000 years ago know this

Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.

this was a time when people thought the earth was flat

and don't give me the earth is technically a sphere non-nonsense, a man living at that time would have translated what he saw in a vision as best he could especially since there is no word for sphere in hebrew

amen friends

Ooh! You've got me there. But what about all the other scriptures that are completely incongruent with any semblance of reality. Want a list? Make my day.

MAYBE · 12-23-2007, 10:19 PM

no

what about the question you've just been asked instead

amen friend

**Skepticologist** · 12-23-2007, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MAYBE

no

what about the question you've just been asked instead

amen friend

What question? Do you mean the question about how Isaiah magically conjured the solar system centuries before Galileo? Well, on balance, considering all the other scriptures that totally struck out, I guess I'd have to say that anybody, given enough written words, can get lucky, although the bible gets it wrong much more often.

MAYBE · 12-23-2007, 10:38 PM

the bible was not written by one man

you have failed to take that into consideration in your assumptions

amen friend

Agnostic Elder · 12-23-2007, 10:56 PM

It is always dangerous to take a single verse of scripture and use that context as an absolute. I always give my wife the "honor your husbands" bit, and it never works. Even when I tell her that God said the wife should bring me a beer.

Astreja · 12-23-2007, 10:57 PM

Climb to the top of a mountain or fairly tall hill.

Turn 360 degrees and look at the horizon all around you.

If your experience is anything like Mine, the Earth will look very much like a circle.

MAYBE · 12-23-2007, 10:59 PM

then why did everyone else at the time of that particular writing believe the earth was flat

amen friend

Agnostic Elder · 12-23-2007, 11:21 PM

Which is even more confusing, since the Catholic church (which should have known the biblical passages inside and out) were the ones that suppressed such notions, such as a round Earth.

Ask your priest why the Catholic church suppressed mankind for several centuries...

MAYBE · 12-23-2007, 11:26 PM

Catholics are not true believers in God

they are even worse than atheists IMO

truth is not obtained through religon .. truth is obtained in God's perfect word the Bible

amen friend