[if we still followed the Bible, we would claim the fucking Earth is flat]
No, we would not. The Bible describes the 'circle of the Earth' in scripture.
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A circle is flat jackass.
Jeez, first Fundies don't know first grade english now they don't know first grade math. Further proof that homeschooling is destorying the intelligence of the world.
Did you know that the only 3-dimensinal shape that has 4 corners is a tetrahedron, or triangular pyramid?
Surely that cannot be what they meant when they described the "four corners of the Earth" - much less a circle.
Fundie: "Hi! I thought I'd drop by and make a jackass out of myself. I brought a truckload of fail, too. Where do you want me to put it?
Human Being: "Well, there is a multitude of your fellow idiots ahead of you. Drop your load over there, please, and we'll call you when we're ready.
You'll have to forgive christians for thinking a circle and a sphere are the same thing. They only live in 2 dimensions since they have no depth.
Why is the guy in the vid wearing a prison orange jumpsuit?
The Bible describes the 'circle of the Earth' in scripture.
No, it doesn't. It describes the "khug" of the earth (believe it or not, the Bible wasn't written in English). The only other two times the word appears in the Bible, the KJV translators translated it as "circuit" and "compass". Does that sound like a sphere?
It actually refers to the vault of the heavens, not the earth itself. The passage continues "[He] that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:" Does that sound like a sphere? Would the sky be spread out "as a tent to dwell in" over a sphere?
@John
Yeah (although I use the transliteration chuwg ).
Actually, there is a word that can mean both 'circle' and 'sphere', and that word is also used in Isaiah (duwr in Isaiah 22:18) but that's not the word that's used in Isaiah 40:22.
That said, the fact that the earth was round and not flat was quite well known by the time that book was written, so it's not inconceivable that the authors could have known that without divine inspiration.
"No, we would not. The Bible describes the 'circle of the Earth' in scripture."
Circle: a 2 dimensional geometric shape.
Sphere: a 3 dimensional geometric shape.
Circle =/= Sphere.
Maybe he meant that if you do a two-dimensional projection of a sphere, you get a circle. Hence, the Earth is a circle when seen in two-dimensions. Makes mathematical sense to me!
Wait, who am I kidding...
1) It always refers to "the four corners of the earth", which is not only a contradiction, but also implies that the earth is flat and shaped like a rectangle.
2) A circle is not a sphere. There are plenty of passages suggesting that the world is flat, including the one claiming that people could see all of the earth from a high mountain, which is impossible is the world isn't flat.
As usual, the bible fails.
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