Why do christians gloat about the bible predicting that the world is round (before scientists discovered it)?

when the bible says it's a circle... not a sphere... and dont tell me about god's vantage point(which would not be a circle anyway, if he's all knowing).



then they say that god hangs the earth on nothing

and forget that the bible mentions about the pillars of the earth.



and the pillars of the earth are figurative but hanging the earth is not.



i guess if you read thoroughly enough, the bible would predict digital cameras before engineers invented themWhy do christians gloat about the bible predicting that the world is round (before scientists discovered it)?
"i guess if you read thoroughly enough, the bible would predict digital cameras before engineers invented them"



That is the advantage of all scripture; you can interpret it to mean anything you want.



But remember, these are the same people who think a page in Job that mentions behemoths with "tails like cedars" is enough to prove dinosaurs lived along side man.



How can you argue with people who can believe such rubbish?
It really wasn't scientists that discovered, or proved that the world was a sphere, it was sailors, on a boat. They were mostly illiterate, and superstitous. Unless of course you consider Magellan a scientist. That I do not believe. A great man, a tyrant too. But mostly a common sailor, with good sponsors.Why do christians gloat about the bible predicting that the world is round (before scientists discovered it)?
Oh crap. I was going to say something cogent and meaningful.

There is no point in that though.



The fact is that 99.99% of the believers have never read or thought about their book. If you ask them about it they just start spouting off about faith.
'Injeel-The Gospel' was revealed to Jesus Christ in truth from God Almighty, But the current Bible is human, though some, out of zeal which is not according to knowledge, have denied this. Those books have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men, and bear in their style the characteristics of men..



The Bible went on revision after revision. The word of God will be perfect and free from any errors. why do you want to revice the word of God?. Honestly asking, Is today's Bible free from errors- http://www.jamaat.net/bible/bible1-3.htm鈥?/a>

http://www.jamaat.net/bible/awakearticle鈥?/a>Why do christians gloat about the bible predicting that the world is round (before scientists discovered it)?
The bible also talks about the 4 corners of the earth.Guess it was covering all the bases
Because for anyone desperate enough for answers and ignorant enough to claim to know that the bible is the truth, it qualifies. That's the kind of reasoning their entire religion is based on. "I heard circle, and it sounds similar to this, and I want it to mean this." No logic and reasoning, just vague connections. You are quite correct. You could actually read any book, and if you interpret it as selectively as that, it can predict literally anything you want it to.
Actually, see the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who predicted it was round and accurately guessed its size.
Digital camera is: 1 Corinthians 13:12.

Read it, it works lol.

Paul is talking about love. It is sort of fitting.
If we gloat, we are self-righteous and arrogant and I don't believe God would like that.
The Bible also says that the whole world can be seen from a high mountain top, and that it has air above and water below 鈥?and that the night sky was a dome with little lights provided by God.



Besides, they were illiterate. There is not one thing written of or about Jesus by anyone who would have been alive when he would have lived. Not a single word Jesus might ever have spoken was noted by anyone and there is not even a description of what he looked like.



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The Greeks figured it out 1000 years before Magellan. It was not from the sailors on the boat; it was those watching the ships return. They noticed that the whole boat did not appear at once, but became visible from the top down. Eratosthenes figured out the earth鈥檚 circumference by using a stick and measuring the length of shadows the sun cast from it.



Then Christianity came along and everyone in Europe fell for the flat earth crap. It took them 700 years before they started to figure it out.
we don't listen to them anyway. don't worry about it.
many eastern countries were transporting goods across the seas way before the bible was written, and because they travelled so far they knew the earth wasn't flat (despite columbus getting all of the credit )