Originally posted by: brxndxn
The Bible says God created the heavens and the Earth in seven days... and many Christians (the complete morons among them) take that to believe the actual Earth was created in a week. But even from the Bible's own evidence, before the Earth, there could be no days. And, numerous verses state that time is completely irrelevent to God himself.. So it would be wrong to believe any single part of the Bible and at the same time ignore the rest of it.
Since we digress away from the thread topic:
Actually, few Christians believe that. There are countless misconceptions about Christians because the actions of a few "Christians" and this is one of them. Nevertheless, don't dismiss Christianity entirely because of some imperfect, immature, or even fake Christians. The real Christians are really trying to live it out.
Anyway, for those who don't know, the literal translations of the Hebrew word, yom, like our English word "day," can refer to a 24 hour day, sunrise to sunset (12 hours), or a
long, unspecified period of time (as in "the day of the dinosaurs"). The Hebrew word ereb, translated evening also means "sunset," "night" or "ending of the day." The Hebrew word boqer, translated morning, also means "sunrise," "coming of light," "beginning of the day," or "dawning," with possible metaphoric usage. Our English expression: "The dawning of an age" serves to illustrate this point. This expression in Hebrew could use the word, boqer, for dawning, which, in Genesis 1, is often translated morning.
Do all the instances of "morning" and evening" refer to a literal period of time? Here is an example from Moses:
In the morning it [grass] flourishes, and sprouts anew; Toward evening it fades, and withers away. (Psalms 90:6)
This verse refers to the life cycle of grass (compared to the short life span of humans). Obviously, the grass does not grow up in one morning and die by the same evening. The period of time refers to its birth (morning) and its death (evening) at least several weeks (if not months) later.
As for what the Bible has to say about the flat Earth topic,
"It is he that sitteth upon the
circle*
of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the
heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent
to dwell in." --Isaiah 40:22
*Circle=Hebrew "chuwg",meaning "sphere"
The Bible says to test everything and have an open mind (1 Thess 5:21). If it is true then there should be no disagreements between the Bible and proven science based on the scientific method. So it's good that you're testing the Bible. But test everything else too, including oneself.