Matthew 4:8-9
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
The other day I got into a scientific debate about the Bible and how “backwards” the writing was. The comment was if the Bible was of God and not man they would not describe the earth as flat. Verse 4:8 was used, along with the same story in Luke, as their only reference. I have read this over and over and do not see evidence of a “flat earth” at all.
The claim is the idea is you can go high enough on a point to see the whole earth, therefore the mindset is the earth is flat. I read this more as allegory and less as litteral. But when you are trying to disprove the Bibe with one verse it’s difficult at best, more like folly. But lets say the people believed in a flat earth, what would be the best way to tell this story?Go litteral and say he took Jesus to a point in space and watched the earth for 24 hours, while it passes before him? That would not make sense to man today, so an allegory is used.
Jesus talked in Parables because they were easy to understand, why make this book difficult for all to understand? What is the importance of making sure we understand the earth is a sphere, which roatates on an axis and revolves around the sun?