Nergel

Moderator Note: This thread was split from here.. As the original topic was lurching around dropping bits of smelly meat and leaving trails of odd metacarpals all over the place, it's been split out and sent back to its mausoleum. Carry on.

Cynthia of Syracuse

I can give you a better explanation if you want:
The message of the writer, is that the world is so immense that one person cannot shake it. We have all had that sense before. He is just in awe of how small he is in the context of the universe.

The psalms were written as songs. They were expressions of gratefulness and frustration, and pleas for God's assistance. The author's intent was poetic and inspirational, not scientific.

CalUWxBill

That's really the only usable apologetic left. I mean if you look at the stuff literally, then the Earth was flat. I don't even know that it was another body of the universe. It was the Earth and up there was the Sky. Now, I tend to think it was believed in this manner, but it may very well have just been a metaphorical song, people just weren't overly concerned about it and left it to God.

Marduk

“I tend to think it was believed in this manner, but it may very well have just been a metaphorical song, people just weren't overly concerned about it and left it to God.”

Of course, and if someone refers to North South East West as the ‘four corners’ so what? People forget that literalist fundamentalists only appeared in the past couple of hundred years, in old days no one really cared about if this or that ‘actually happened’ any more than they complained that Aesop’s fables contained talking animals, they knew the point the story was trying to convey. “hey Aesop, that story is like, bogus man, foxes don’t talk”

Caine

3 year old thread

That's some serious necromancy.

Coragyps

Does that make me undead?

Caine

Keep away from me monster! I have some of Peter Popoff's holy water and I'm not afraid to use it!

Nergel

Don't you have any counter-apologetic argument?
We should evaluate this argument further, if the bible writers did believe in a flat earth that would shake the christian foundations

sbaii

Precisely. The Bible is not a science book.