Originally posted by CherubBaby
reply to post by xxsomexpersonxx
The only flaws are your abilities to to admit you cant have day and night at the same time on a flat disc ( unless your hiding from the sun underneath
it. But then you would have gravity wouldnt you ) Or maybe Jesus suffered from memory loss and didn't remember he said day one time and night the
next?. Read the verses, accept the facts of what they say and not what you want them to mean. If you had a answer that provedd otherwise you wouldnt
have to lay there wondering how to discredit something that is credible
You're going into the realm of personal attacks. Just warning you, knock it off. It's impolite, I try to be respectful despite how ridiculous you're
claims are, you could do the same.
1.) Jesus didn't specifically say that the Day and Night were at the same time. "That night", means later after that night. I'm sure I could find
better translations that made that clearer.
2.) The people were presumably at the same location, at least roughly. Just because there's day and night at once on our spherical earth doesn't mean
the same town can simultaneously be day and night.
3.) All those he was speaking to were Flat Earthers. The idea of people on the opposite side of the planet being there, was beyond them. So was the
idea of Day and Night being at the same time. Jesus never took the time to explain this to them. They understood what he was saying in a flat earth
context, because he didn't say anything contradicting that belief. They also all continued to believe in a flat earth.
4.) If jesus knew the earth was round, he would have stressed it. Not made vague allusions to it. He would have proven that he was the son of god to
future generations, by revealing that he had insights no other humans had at the time. He could have done the same with, for example, Germ Theory.
What did he do instead of showing that he understood that? He refused to wash his hands before eating.
5.) Early churches opposed the spherical earth idea when it became known. Because it contradicted their interpretations of the bible. Which shows two
things;
One, is that often, the best way to know exactly how a scripture or old text was meant, is to look at how it was received by those it was given to.
The people being told the stuff directly should know what it meant. And yet none of the scriptures said the earth was round to them, and they had a
better understanding of what they meant at the time than we do now.
Two, is that scripture, and even specific scriptures, can be interpreted to support anything. Flat Earth, Round Earth, Pro-life, Pro-choice, Hell, No
Hell, Keeping the Old Testament Laws, Abolishing them. It all depends on the person looking at them, and what they thought before looking a the
scriptures. Just because it can be interpreted one way, doesn't necessarily mean that's how it was meant.
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P.S. Poe's Corollary. I'm, starting to suspect you're joking here. It's hard to imagine this as serious.
Just so you know.
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