The Bible's Flat Earth

Hmm. But are you the only one who gets to decide when they're being used, Peg? Genesis 1-3 can't be an extended metaphor, mut the word "immovable" can be? That's a bit unfair to us heathens....

You know that is untrue, Peg. 200 years ago the "doctrine" was that you should treat your slaves kindly, and not beat them to death, as that got expensive. Now the same churches say that slavery is Very Wrong and forbidden by the Bible - and those Bible verses haven't changed much at all.The same goes for killing "witches." The same goes for women having to wear hats to church when I was a child, but no longer by the time I got out of college. Heck, for the Sun going around the Earth until 1620 or so. Doctrine evolves continuously to catch up with the progress of society, Peg. Not so much the other way around....

But your last post was showing where the "written word" has changed.....
And in any case, the near-universal interpretation of what God's Unchanging and Immutable Word is changes continuously - even the Southern Baptists over here no longer advocate slavery. I doubt that you can find one in a hundred of them that even know that their denomination exists because it split from the Baptists that weren't slave owners.

Oddly enough, what has actually changed is our understanding of the world around us. This improved understanding forces apologists such as you to torture ancient texts even more with each passing century to get them to "agree" with observed, accepted reality. The original meanings were "flat and circular' and "immovable." Only folks such as yourself and the Baptist preacher down the street from me will claim that "immovable" equates to "travelling 66,000 miles per hour while rotating at 1000 miles per hour."

Palestine isn't exactly a hotspot for earthquakes, anyway. There are plenty within a few hundred kilometers of there, I guess - Turkey, Iran, and Greece - but I don't know that they feel them too often in Israel. Though people I know who've been through a good 'quake do tell me it sticks tight in your memory.....

You're very welcome here at EvC, Earthling. I hope to see you around the forums.