Re: [asa] Flat Earth in earlier Christendom

Simple! Nothing there at all in Revelation - I don't think it mentions Paul. Also there is nothing like this in the whole Bible.

Paul I reckon as an educated Greek Jew accepted the earth's sphericity as did Luke, I am not so sure about Peter and others brought up in Galilee.

With Paul Seely's stuff on Genesis and a general awareness of accommodation of biblical writing to the culture of the day there is no problem what ideas any biblical writers had about the cosmos and whether or not they turned out to be wrong.

Far too many think all biblical characters were uneducated savages whereas many were very sharp and some were highly educated eg Paul, Luke and Moses . When you consider the quality of biblical writing whether old or New Testament it shows their skill and prowess from a purely secular standard and that they were the opposite of dumbos.

Your astrophysicist is like someone criticising the Origin of Species because it does not mention DNA

To conclude the church has a fairly good record on science, except over the last 50 years.

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: George Cooper
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:58 PM
  Subject: RE: [asa] Flat Earth in earlier Christendom

  Anyone know the answer to the other question posed?

  "He [the astrophysicist] also claims the Bible says Paul in Revelations (ha!) climbed a tall tree and saw the edges of the Earth. Is there any related verse about this?"

  Coope

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Received on Wed Nov 12 16:12:54 2008