The Bible Erroneously Says the Earth is Flat

[Audie]

I know.. the phrase "American Exceptionalism" gets on my last nerve.

Well, america is exceptionally something.

How does that relate, though?

 

[sooda]

Well, america is exceptionally something.

How does that relate, though?

Are we truly exceptional?

Noblesse oblige is the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

 

[Audie]

Are we truly exceptional?

Noblesse oblige is the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

Exceptional includes a lot of possibilities.

Being the richest and most powerful nation that
ever existed is kinda like a exceptional.

 

[sooda]

Exceptional includes a lot of possibilities.

Being the richest and most powerful nation that
ever existed is kinda like a exceptional.

I don't think so.. Our leaders are self aggrandizing idiots. It so rare to see any of them take the high road.

 

[Audie]

I don't think so.. Our leaders are self aggrandizing idiots. It so rare to see any of them take the high road.

Hm, seems like topic drift, there.

You do not think that the USA is the richest most powerful
ever?
Or that there are many kinds of exceptional?

 

[sooda]

Hm, seems like topic drift, there.

You do not think that the USA is the richest most powerful
ever?
Or that there are many kinds of exceptional?

“To whom much is given, much will be required” is that we are held responsible for what we have especially if we are blessed with talents, wealth, knowledge, time, and such.

Sorry Audie.. I am rather disgusted with the state of affairs or affairs of state.

 

[We Never Know]

Exceptional includes a lot of possibilities.

Being the richest and most powerful nation that
ever existed is kinda like a exceptional.

We rank #1 military wise.
2019 Military Strength Ranking

However for richest, we rank #11
From Bahrain to Qatar: These are the 25 richest countries in the world

 

[sooda]

We rank #1 military wise.
2019 Military Strength Ranking

However for richest, we rank #11
From Bahrain to Qatar: These are the 25 richest countries in the world

 

[Audie]

We rank #1 military wise.
2019 Military Strength Ranking

However for richest, we rank #11
From Bahrain to Qatar: These are the 25 richest countries in the world

I did not mean per capita.

 

[Audie]

“To whom much is given, much will be required” is that we are held responsible for what we have especially if we are blessed with talents, wealth, knowledge, time, and such.

Sorry Audie.. I am rather disgusted with the state of affairs or affairs of state.

You are rather off topic topic too, but, we share
a similar state of disgust.

 

[Augustus]

If it were not for the bad habit of people to make
war and destroy every civilization that tries to get
organized, imagine how far civil society could
have progressed by now!

Maybe we'd have progressed more, maybe less.

Scientific progress has greatly correlated with wealth. Conquest made the winners very wealthy and enabled lavish spending on arts, science/technology and architecture.

The need for military tech has also driven innovation, as has great power rivalry.

 

[BilliardsBall]

What is the criterion to determine what is metaphor and what is not metaphor in the Bible? How do you know the story of Jesus isn't just a big giant metaphor for something seemingly unrelated?

Presumed subjectivity to part of a text is no reason to discard the text or the text where it speaks objectively, as true of a science text with commentary in school or of the Bible. Your argument is moot.

 

[1213]

The Bible also says that all life that breathed air died except for those on the Ark.

Seriously, do you even read the book? Bible tells those who were on earth died. Not all “that breathed air”.

 

[Audie]

Seriously, do you even read the book? Bible tells those who were on earth died. Not all “that breathed air”.

KJV
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Seriously, do you even read the book? Bible tells those who were on earth died. Not all “that breathed air”.

Genesis 3 17

"17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it.

Do you really not understand your own book of myths?

 

[Subduction Zone]

KJV
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

I didn't see your post, but that is twice the Bible made that claim.

 

[We Never Know]

I did not mean per capita.

What did you mean when you said "Being the richest and most powerful nation that ever existed is kinda like a exceptional."

 

[Audie]

What did you mean when you said "Being the richest and most powerful nation that ever existed is kinda like a exceptional."

Two superlatives makes something exceptional. There are more
than two, of course.

What meanng for "exceptional" do you choose?

 

[1213]

Genesis 3 17

"17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it.

It continues by: “…Everything that is in the earth will die.”. So, things that were not in/on the earth, which means dry land in the Bible, did not necessary die.

 

[Subduction Zone]

It continues by: “…Everything that is in the earth will die.”. So, things that were not in/on the earth, which means dry land in the Bible, did not necessary die.

Which version are you using? The English of the KJV is not the same as the English of today.

EDIT: Here is a more modern translation:

Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 6 - English Standard Version