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I think that Jesus's warnings about the rapture implied a round planet. Since Christ cautioned that some people will be doing day time activities, ie. working in the field, and others nighttime activites, ie. sleeping on a bed, it follows His coming will be at day for some and at night for others.That implies a round planet.Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.

The Hebrew canon have one entire book about and named after a Moabitess (the bad people)? That is the book of Ruth.I take that as evidence of the divine inspiration of the Bible. Something else is going on there besides self grandizing national religious propoganda.The story of how the Messiah came is there. Ruth was the grandmother of David, whose descendent would be the Son of God. Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

The Recovery Version often translates the a word as "in inhabited eart" rather than just "the earth".For example, concerning the second coming of Christ - "And when He brings again His Son into the inhabited earth, He says, and let all the angels of God worship Him" (Heb 1:6) The impact to me is the earth where humans live. That is the point rather than whether a globe or a flat plane is implied. The main concern seems to be living people. His operations are firstly involving people.

That was pretty good ICANT. I borrowed it without your permission and posted it on another forum.I think doctrbill has to get the Internet Foot in the Mouth Award of the month.It also kind of confirms my suspicion that when God chose for Himself a ethnic group of people He chose one of the most heady and intellectual ones around. - (and stubburn). Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Firstly, I don't believe that man should look to Genesis for a exhaustive scientific explanation of how the cosmos run. If that were the purpose of the writing of the Bible then perhaps we would have had 66 books just to discribe what water is.I am not trying to argue for ICANT here. And I don't agree with ICANT on some of the things he insists.And, admittedly, I have not read all of the discussion, but parts of it here.But you seem not to show a similar concern for the prejudice displayed by doctrbill. You pounce on ICANT because his association of Jews with great science. But you didn't pounce on doctrbill with his association of no science achievements from "God's chosen people."I don't think your critique was even handed. At worst ICANT just over adjusted the prejudice displayed by doctrbill.As for the wonderful Age of Enlightenment, it has also been argued that it was the FREEING of the Bible from its Catholic prison, in which only the priestly class could read it, and its liberation into the hands of the masses, that helped to bring in such an atmosphere of free thinking and enlightenment.In other words, Mr Skeptic, Enlightenment was not when the Bible was LOCKED UP from the greater population but when it was liberated to be READ by the masses.I know correlation does not necessarily means causation. But it has been argued that freeing of God's word brought in clearer thinking, exploration, reformation, and scientific enlightenment.The late Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer I believe argued this way. Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by jaywill, : No reason given.Edited by AdminPD, : Warning