I'm catholic but the bible is not absoultly true. In the bible it states the world is flat and a dome over it is where God watches us from... Sound wrong to you? Also the left on earth thing is correct! When the rapture occurs all nations of the world will be tormented with war for 6 months. Personaly I think I would love to have a zombie apocolypse..(knock on wood).. My weapon of choice - A crowbar and bicycle. A crowbar - It can open doors and kills stuff and doesn't run out of ammo. A bike - No gasoline required
Interesting, I would like to see the verse quote that states this within the KJV, NKJV, NIV or NLT. (take your pick)
Alright guys, I'm going to ask this thread to get locked if people argue more about religion, that stuff needs to stay off this site, if you want to talk it about please feel free to PM each other. This thread was meant as a joke. But yes 10 seconds before the world ends everything free sounds like a great deal to me.
The world can't end today, as I still have Corn Flakes in my cupboard that don't go off until 2013... so you do the maths...
If that's how we know when the world is going to end we should never stop making Twinkies. Don't stop the twinkies Bro!
I wouldn't be surprised if all the inaccuracies were slowly phased out as the massive gaping flaws started to appear. There's probably an older text somewhere with the dome, then during the re-write translators decided it was really just an abstract way of referring to something more realistic and plausible so replaced it with that.
Heh, I'm glad someone else caught that. There are some contradicting statements in the Bible, and since it's really just a collection (selectively chosen quite some time after Christianity had started to become popular) of different books, that isn't surprising. There are some references to the sky resting on pillars, implying that the earth is a flat (or rather, a large circle, like a pizza), but in Job 26:7 we can read that the earth hangs "on nothing" in space, which is quite extra-ordinary considering when Job was written. But it's all figurative and metamorphic, so it's open to interpretation. In general, the belief that the earth is flat "made sense" from an ancient perspective. It was also fairly wide-spread. The ancient Chinese for example believed it too, and in their view, the earth was a large, flat square with the sky stretched over it like a (smaller) bed sheet. This "sheet" only covered China, and the barbarians that lived outside unfortunately didn't have a sky. Poor barbarians! The Go board (Asian board game) represents this still.
