Dr. Ehrman,
The God of Moses (Yahweh) and Moses were flat-earthers (given Genesis 1: 6).
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with masterminding the first expedition (8/1519-9/1522) to circumnavigate the world.
Circumnavigation ends acceptance of flat-earth.
In the movie Agora (2009) there was a scene where Hypatia (died 415 AD), astronomer, was looking at a model of round planets.
Around 350 BCE, Aristotle declared the Earth was a sphere.
The Septuagint may have been completed in 247 BCE but they left flat-earth language in Genesis.
Do you think Jesus went with Moses (making Jesus a flat-earther) or Aristotle on the shape of the Earth?
We cannot have God and Jesus who became God being flat-earthers.
Steefen
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Dr. Ehrman
YouTube channel Oskars Lapa, Video: “What on Earth Happened Ewaranon (1-13 Full documentary) MUST Watch” gives a good explanation of why the Sun is not 93,000,000 miles away. The video is 5 hrs 52 minutes and is well worth it. I understand that Greco-Roman education may have taught that the earth and other planets were spheres (because of Aristotle), but there is a model with greater explanatory power. I wondered why CERN (The European Council for Nuclear Research) was interested in Norse Mythology which also uses the flat-earth model as does Genesis.
Steefen
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The Y8n-Yang symbol shown as the Sun and Moon was interesting.
I finished watching the 6-hr video.
Just as it as good to see the earth-centric solar system then the heliocentric system,
it was good to see the flat-earth system and the spherical earth system.
Both the earth-centric solar system and the flat-earth system had grips on the zeitgeist.
Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Genesis 2: 5-6
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The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
Genesis 7: 1-3
A friend told me it wasn’t just 2 of every animal.
It was something he brought up. I only was talking about the giants.
So, there was no rain from the skies until after the great flood?
Warned by the god Ea (Sumerian: Enki) that the great gods have decided to send down a flood to destroy humankind,
Ea instructs Uta-napishtim to demolish his house, abandon wealth, build a boat, and seek safety.
SOOOOOOO, this upsets the family tree of Noah because the Mesopotamia flood comes before the flood of the Hebrew Bible.
Come on bro. There wasn’t a sky yet. It was all water.
The heavens is also water. That why the sky is blue like the ocean. The firmament (sky) is what keeps the heaven water from flooding the earth. The rain clouds are the firmament opening like a flood gate to bring water from the heavens to the land.
And we can see from observation that a raindrop always forms into a sphere like shape when it falls from a leaf. Water doesn’t form into a flat disk when in the air.
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