• Flax@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago, so 8,000 BC, which kind of makes sense considering the Biblical timeline.

    How is the earth’s circumference relevant to Christianity?

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      He’s implying the writer of Genesis should have known that the flood only covered their area instead of writing the whole world. Because someone in Greece already calculated the circumference of the earth at the time.

      Either way the great flood is not just documented in the Torah which is interesting, and if findings are reported as true, it’s not the first documentation of the flood.

      Regardless, what was written and how the actual events transpired doesn’t break the writings or purpose of them in Christianity/Judaism

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        The thing is, even if accounts of the flood was written before the Torah was written, it just further shows that it did happen. The earth’s circumference was measured in 240bc by the greeks. Which is long after the flood no matter who you ask.

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          Oh I wouldn’t know about the earth’s circumference being measured. The comment about calling Christianity backwards because of some “enlightened” idea that there were mathematicians during the time of (in their eyes) “magic” being reported is insensible. Atheists will atheist.

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            Yeah. Another thing is that the word used “erets” doesn’t always necessarily mean the whole world. If you consider where Eden was likely located (underneath the persian gulf) it would have definitely looked like a global flood of some kind to Noah. I think to say “Bible disproven because I take the flood account fully literally” is a bit silly.