![]() We assume you do not believe that God actually has wings or that trees actually clap their (nonexistent) hands.įinally, too, if the Earth is a disk, why does it have four corners? (Isaiah 11:12, essentially every translation). Our question though for you is if you wish to insist that the passage you quote implies a flat, circular earth, do you also imply that God physically sits on the earth? But God is a spirit (attested in every translation of John 4:24), not a physical entity, except in so far as he comes as the second person of the trinity, incarnate in Jesus Christ – so He cannot “sit on the earth”. ![]() All others use “circle of the earth”, which if you take a look around you in an open field, you’ll see that the horizon indeed seems to trace out a circle around you. ![]() Not good exegesis.Īs for the “disk of the earth”… again you chose the one translation which made a choice that’s convenient for you – “disk”. Why not quote from the King James? Or the original Hebrew? The words there are rendered most often “open fields”, but you picked one which fits your predilections. We note also that you chose the Tyndale translation, rather than every other English translation, because of the way Tyndale translated the original Hebrew. Or, as an alternative approach that we would urge you to consider, one could make a bit more responsible reading and understand that there are other ways to understand what is written in those passages than the most facile reading of the English rendering given there. One can certainly read those phrases in a wooden fashion so as to think that he has disproven what is clearly observable. Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie.The Christian Humanist (all blog posts).
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