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well, that's an argument that the Israelites along with most of the people in the region had an incomplete understanding and view of the true topological nature of the earth & cosmos -- not that a strong argument for a flat earth can be made from scripture.
right?
unlike many pagan religions, the Bible itself doesn't present any kind of detailed description of the shape of the earth & the heavens. there are no scriptures describing it resting on atlas's shoulders or the back of a turtle, for example -- and it is well known from scripture that Israel prostituted itself to the gods of the surrounding peoples, mixing worship of God with the Baals, Ashtorehs, Molech and others -- and adopting their astrologies, beliefs and practices, being led astray by them into false beliefs and abominable practices. all this is during the time of the writing of much of the scripture. so talking about historical Jewish views of cosmology doesn't in any way necessarily correspond to a "correct" view of the universe's design; rather, it is very probable that their views historically are wrong, being highly influenced by the pagan nations around them and their idolatrous religions.
it would be like saying, the Jews are the people of God, OK, and we find pottery dating back to some Biblical eras in Israel that has inscriptions about Ashtoreh and Baal, so we conclude that the God of the Bible had a goddess wife Ashtoreh, and that He and Baal are the same God. well that's obviously baloney -- it's ignoring what the Bible actually says about Jewish history and about God Himself.
make sense?
it would be like saying, the Jews are the people of God, OK, and we find pottery dating back to some Biblical eras in Israel that has inscriptions about Ashtoreh and Baal, so we conclude that the God of the Bible had a goddess wife Ashtoreh, and that He and Baal are the same God. well that's obviously baloney -- it's ignoring what the Bible actually says about Jewish history and about God Himself.
make sense?
so we have that the Bible doesn't support a flat earth view -- it is relatively completely silent on cosmology other than consistently referring to God "stretching out" the universe, and that He alone is the creator, & that He created it by His word.
and we have that historical Jewish views of cosmology are highly influenced by the pagan cultures around them -- not necessarily in any way reflecting knowledge from the One true God, whom the Biblical record says they rejected for much of their history.
i think we're still stuck at:
and we have that historical Jewish views of cosmology are highly influenced by the pagan cultures around them -- not necessarily in any way reflecting knowledge from the One true God, whom the Biblical record says they rejected for much of their history.
i think we're still stuck at:
- the Bible doesn't actually teach flat earth.
- Jewish historical cosmology is basically pseudo-pagan cosmology.
- sphericals premise is nuts, unsupportable, unconvincing, and totally contradicted by all known science and observational evidence.