Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Faith in a Flat Earth Holy Book?

No matter how one slices it a Flat Earth conception permeates the Hebrew Bible.

Genesis:13:14 "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:"
Genesis:13:15 "For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever."

Unless the Earth is flat, Abram is standing on a tall mountain or he gets to be Elasticman, YHWH gave him no more than a very small plot of land...

Joshua:10:12 "Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."

Joshua:10:13 "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day."

Joshua:10:14 "And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel."

The Hebrew Bible fabulists were not even aware that Erathostenes, a Greek, had already figured out in 255 BCE that the Earth was a sphere and had measured its circumference.

If that is not enough to disqualify the Hebrew Bible as a god revealed holy book, the period picked for YHWH creation is a late Iron Age. Bypassing in a single bound the Stone Age and the Bronze Age. Ages that are well documented archaeologically.

Genesis:3:24 "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
Genesis:4:22 "And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah."

Come on now an omniscient god should reveal a more realistic book than that.

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