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Revelation 21:16f NIV
The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using.
Source: en.wikipedia.org...
His knowledge of the size of Egypt after many generations of surveying trips for the Pharaonic bookkeepers gave a distance between the cities of 5,000 stadia. This distance was corroborated by inquiring about the time that it took to travel from Syene to Alexandria by camel. He rounded the result to a final value of 700 stadia per degree, which implies a circumference of 252,000 stadia (...) If we repeat Erathostenes' calculation with more accurate data, the result is 40,074 km, which is 66 kms different (0.16%) from the currently accepted circumference of the earth.
AfterInfinity
If the earth were actually a perfect sphere, I would be inclined to grant your theory credence. The fact is, the earth is more egg-shaped than anything else.
AfterInfinity
If the earth were actually a perfect sphere, I would be inclined to grant your theory credence. The fact is, the earth is more egg-shaped than anything else.
rickymouse
Have a bunch of so called experts telling everyone that they were misled in the past.
Not everyone bowed down to this brainwashing campaign. People accepted it as real because it was forced on them. It spread through most of the kingdoms of Europe and Asia over the centuries. Everyone was led to believe in a lie.
Bone75
rickymouse
Have a bunch of so called experts telling everyone that they were misled in the past.
Not everyone bowed down to this brainwashing campaign. People accepted it as real because it was forced on them. It spread through most of the kingdoms of Europe and Asia over the centuries. Everyone was led to believe in a lie.
Sounds exactly like what we're dealing with today. If you don't believe in the Big Bang or Evolution you're basically shunned and called stupid by the rest of society.
rickymouse
reply to post by Utnapisjtim
Yes, the church did adopt this and enforced it.
Source: plato.stanford.edu...
Clearly, theism has shown some flexibility in integrating its doctrines with prevailing scientific worldviews—as evidenced, e.g., in the integration of Aristotelian cosmology, and in the exploitation of big-bang cosmology.
AfterInfinity
If the earth were actually a perfect sphere, I would be inclined to grant your theory credence. The fact is, the earth is more egg-shaped than anything else. But no one's going to remember that just by reading this thread, so I'm putting it here:
THE EARTH IS NOT A PERFECT SPHERE
...which basically invalidates the theory.edit on 10-1-2014 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
The fact is, the earth is more egg-shaped than anything else.
The Earth has an equatorial bulge of 42.72 km (26.54 mi): that is, its diameter measured across the equatorial plane (12,756.28 km (7,926.38 mi)) is 42.72 km more than that measured between the poles (12,713.56 km (7,899.84 mi))
rickymouse
Bone75
rickymouse
Have a bunch of so called experts telling everyone that they were misled in the past.
Not everyone bowed down to this brainwashing campaign. People accepted it as real because it was forced on them. It spread through most of the kingdoms of Europe and Asia over the centuries. Everyone was led to believe in a lie.
Sounds exactly like what we're dealing with today. If you don't believe in the Big Bang or Evolution you're basically shunned and called stupid by the rest of society.
These ancient methods don't change, only the content.
Shiloh7
reply to post by Utnapisjtim
It surprises me that the New Jerusalem needs a wall 144 cubits thick. It hardly seems to be a free place to live with walls like that. Why is it supposed to need walls at all?
The rather mundane fact is that most educated Christian writers accepted Greco-Roman teachings about the earth and cosmos and quickly moved on to more urgent matters of sin and salvation. No Christian authority of any consequence ever taught that the earth was flat. (Source)
adjensen
That the Church taught that the Earth was flat is a Nineteenth Century hoax.
Bone75
Interesting topic OP. Especially considering that 21 is a multiple of 7.
777 in fact. Isn't 777 considered the number of God?