I am a very strong Christian, however, I don’t understand how that clip can in any way whatsoever be true. It makes since if you don’t think about it. If we could look back in time as to how the world was then we wouldn’t need historians would we! I’m sure the author of this post was just missinformed. The Bible can easily be proven to be acurate to a high degree, (of course we can’t “prove” the whole thing but we can prove everything their is evidence for one way or another). The fact is the Bible is errorless and we need to be careful spreading false witness about discoveries that were never made. I wouldn’t be supprised if this whole thing origionaly came from a Jezuite (sp?) who does indeed believe the ends justify the means, which the Bible clearly speaks against.
Eric Wilson
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea. -Revelation 21:1
Manny, if there were a way to leap through my computer and travel across the Internet so that I could jump out of your monitor and strangle you, I’d do it in a heartbeat for that one…
Did anyone else see the ad for the new episode of Upright Citizens Brigade on Comedy Central? I didn’t see the show, but apparently it’s a spoof of this UL, with a Christian student telling his professor that gravity doesn’t exist because he can’t explain the spitty-slurpy (letting a little bit of saliva out of one’s mouth and then sucking it back up).
David,
Where does it say the Earth is flat?
Hardcore, God tells when certain verses are parables, dreams, visions…so not all should be taken literally. In order to make something a doctrine, it has to be found in atleast 3 places and not taken out of contex.
Let me get this straight. The Bible is completely accurate as long as we have the “God’s voice” telling us which verses are literal and which aren’t, the same claim is made three times, and we don’t take the claim “out of contex(t)”.
Are you by chance an ace Fizbin player?
Jeez, dansir, you have a short memory. We went through this the first time you showed up (in the thread I link to above). You claimed something similar to Eric. I posted the flat earth stuff. You ignored me. I asked several more times 'til you essentially said you weren’t going to deal with it. Remember “the circle of the Earth”? A circle is flat, you know.
Not a God voice, the Bible tells if it is a vision, dream ect. What exactly do you have a problem with and I will do my best to find the answer to it.
David,
Circle has more definitions than your geometrical one.
I think it is the perfect word to use in Isaiah 40-22. ‘IT IS HE THAT SITTETH UPON THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH,’
Circle
‘1. a closed curve every point of which is equally distant from a fixed point within it.
2. an area of action or influence.
3. a group bound by a common tie.
4. to move or revolve around.’
slythe, I haven’t thought about Fizbin in years! Do you know where I can find the rules?
dansir, the point is that the church made statements such as yours in the past when science proved the earth wasn’t flat, or when it showed that the earth was not the center of the universe. Now that science has shown there was no global flood, the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, and life has evolved from a common ancestor, we are indeed lucky that the church’s retaliation is limited to message boards and school boards.
The Bible is a beautiful book of poetry and morality that should not be taken literally. I prefer to interpret the Genesis story another way – We are currently living in the garden of Eden, we are partaking of the tree of knowledge, and now are being cast out (into outer space).
I read and printed the ‘Flat Earth’ webpage above. I understand why you all believe differently than I and I know why you all get so frustrated with me. I cannot explain the ‘Flat Earth’ but I am taking the printed copy to someone who I hope can. If they give me anything ‘that will hold up in court’, I will post it. I know it will take a month or longer for them to even read because they are busy people.
Hardcore,
I dont believe the Bible says how old the Earth is and I dont see how science can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the flood did not happen. I know the Bible is more thatn poetry. Just as I know the wind it there, I know God is too.
dansir, I don’t believe the Bible says how old the earth is either, but many have used it to try and prove the earth is approximately 6,000 years old by taking a literal interpretation of Genesis. Science is about evidence, not proof, and all of the available evidence does not indicate a global flood. I don’t intend to challenge your belief in God, I just don’t want anyone to throw out science in order to believe in God. The honest pursuit of knowledge will always be a good thing in my view, and science is the best avenue we have to do this.
I’m sure the author of this post was just missinformed. The Bible can easily be proven to be acurate to a high degree, (of course we can’t “prove” the whole thing but we can prove everything their is evidence for one way or another). The fact is the Bible is errorless and we need to be careful spreading false witness about discoveries that were never made. I wouldn’t be supprised if this whole thing origionaly came from a Jezuite (sp?) who does indeed believe the ends justify the means, which the Bible clearly speaks against.
