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Jeffrey Gibson · 06-04-2008, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

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Originally Posted by Joan of Bark

Are you sure? The ancient Greeks knew the world to be spherical, and even did a pretty good job of estimating its circumference. Were the Palestinian Romans really that backwards?

The ancient Greeks had figured out that the earth was a sphere, but the Bible still reflects an earlier view of a round, flat earth with a canopy above it. How else could Satan take Jesus up and show him the four corners of the earth?

Could you please provide me with the passage (presumably in one of the versions of the story of Jesus' Wilderness "temptation", yes?) that notes that Satan showed Jesus "the four corners of the earth"?

Jeffrey

Amaleq13 · 06-04-2008, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ben C Smith

The addressee is unspecified, yes, but surely it cannot be Jesus himself.

Could it be angels in heaven with God?

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