Quote Originally Posted by Philippus Flavius Homovallumus View Post
It clearly is - your whole point here is scorn.

















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Do you even understand the words you use?

I can point to the passage where Gabriel tells Mohammed "go out and kill them, take their women and children as slaves".
Does he tell them that they can rape the women or sell them but not do both as that would be selling damaged goods?
Did he tell them to bash in the childrens skulls in front of their mothers eyes?
Or is that your book?

I'd like chapter and verse where it says that the Earth is flat.
Follow the link already posted.
It's still inferred, or interpreted.
Follow the link already posted.
The Bible doesn't give the Earth an explicit shape, or a length or breadth.
Follow the link already posted.

It does give a precise number of days for Creation - and the "Young Earth" Theory has it's origin in the practice of adding up the ages of the original Patriarchs up to Moses and coming up with about 6,000 years.
Was Bede accused of heresey for using that date?

In Homer the Sky is actually described as a "brazen" (i.e. bronze) dome. However, as much as the sky appears to be solid it's also clearly permeable in certain circumstances. It also changes colour at night, going from apparently opaque to transparent, you see stars in the night sky and the night sky does not appear as a "solid" dome, it appears expansive as the blue daytime sky does not.
If the sun and stars are fixed to the dome how can it be more expansive?

The Ancients were not stupid, they observed what we observe, which is that from any one point the sky appears to be a hemisphere, that the hemesphere is the same shape no matter where you stand
Naive is the word you want.

and that it appears to be permeable.
Would that be explained by the doors and windows to let the rain in?

The Fact that it's described using the word Raqia doesn't mean the Earth is flat though. Do you know how you make a sphere absent injection moulding? You make to hemispheres and stick them together. This is something else the ancients would have been aware of from working with bronze, or even working with cloth.
Does injection moulding or cloth require hammeing a solid object into a bowl shape?
Does the bible say two bowls stuck together?

I'm aware the view was quite widespread.
Widespread? would that include the people who wrote your creation story?
If so what are you trying to defend?

The question is not how widespread the view was - the question is whether the Bible requires you to believe it. Thus far you've presented no convincing evidence to that effect.
How does a book require you to believe anything?
Someone posted Tolkien earlier, if people want to believe that its fine, the problem would be if they wanted to teach middle earthism as science like the Capital Cs do
Please - chapter and verse
Follow the link posted earlier.
Or you can follow the one Sigurd posted, which is funny as you earlier said you and he would tear down what I hasd written . By his comments about Capital Cs and his attitude to that Creationist site he doesn't seem to be much at odds with what I have written.