# Questions on Christianity (Again...) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 30, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952 "2010-08-30T02:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 56
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952/1101 "2010-09-16T22:32:27Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > **aigonz** , at this point, you are both denying your own posts when it is convenient and you are giving meanngs to words that they do not have. > > I am strongly beginning to suspect that you are a troll, (because the alternative is that you are really, really, not capable of thinking through your own statements). > > If you continue this behavior, I am going to have to ask the rest of the staff to review your posting privileges. > > [/Moderating] This is beyond the pale. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952/1102 "2010-09-16T23:19:30Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > This is beyond the pale. So, somewhere outside Dublin? ---
**Author:** ![Latro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@Latro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latro)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952/1103 "2010-09-17T06:59:40Z")
> [@raindog](#): > > This is beyond the pale. [QUOTE=aigonz] I suggested before you should participate or moderate. If you don’t like being shown up, park you blatant bias somewhere else. [/quote] Indeed. Talk about being shown up… ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952/1104 "2010-09-17T11:39:31Z")
> [@aigonz](#): > > > [@monavis](#): > > > > A coin can be said to be a circle, but it is also flat! So circle doesn’t mean orb! > > And the earth is described as a circle too. Today, not just thousands of years ago. I have lived 80 years and never once heard the earth described as a circle. maybe because I wasn’t hearing from you? ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952/1105 "2010-09-17T12:07:37Z")
> [@aigonz](#): > > > [@Meatros](#): > > > > You’ve been disingenuous from the start - but that’s beside the point. A circle may be round, but it is still flat. > > > > You have not demonstrated that the authors of the bible meant spheres. It’s quite clear that they didn’t - even with the biblical passages that _YOU_ quoted. > > > > You have _NOT_ supported the contention that the bible speaks of a sphere. All you’ve done is equivocating on the definition of ‘round’, using it to mean flat (as in circles) and spheres (as in the earth). You have _NOT_ shown that the ancient Hebrews believed that the earth was a sphere. > > > > PLEASE SUPPORT THAT CONTENTION with something other then ‘maybes’. Back it up or back it down. > > I will type this slowly. > > The Old Testament was written in hebrew. > > There is no hebrew word for sphere. I realize that you were banned, but seriously, this is the best you can do? Let me get this straight, your argument is: because hebrew had no word for sphere, therefore they thought the world was a sphere? How does that follow? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-on-christianity-again/551952.md?page=55)