Sure, but those idioms for people only make sense because of what an actual pillar is and what it does.
Since there were no people on the day GOD created the earth, the pillars of the earth cannot be an idiom for people.
Right?
The Earth Is A Sphere According To The Bible
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Since there were no people on the day GOD created the earth, the pillars of the earth cannot be an idiom for people.
Right?
CherubRam
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These pillars are leaders in the world that belong to God. The bible has many verses that are parables, and are not to be taken literally.
1 Samuel 2:8 KJV
(8) He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
WatchmanOnTheWall
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I know but then gravity becomes an issue.
CherubRam
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The Earth follows the Sun. The Moon follows the Earth. All of the planets in our galaxy follow our Sun which is traveling through space.
That's what science tells us.
Unless science is not yet fully informed about the properties and functions of gravity.
Wrong. Only the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun and they don't "follow" the sun. Our galaxy has a center and all stars and systems revolve around the center.
I find that interpretation far-fetched.
The pillars seem much more like architectural supports.
Job 9 reveals the same thing:
Then Job answered: 2 "Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God? 3 If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength —who has resisted him, and succeeded?— 5 he who removes mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger; 6 who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; 7 who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; 8 who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea; 9 who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; 10 who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number. 11 Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.
Ancient Near East cosmology bears little resemblance to what is known today.
WatchmanOnTheWall
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Yep they always think of an answer, or at least half an answer. Personally it could be flat for the simple reason God can do anything.
The picture taken from the space showing clearly that all planets are round.
why all of a sudden this new doubt?
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Greg Jennings
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Tbh, it's not. Gravity is somewhat of a mystery
Greg Jennings
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Bc conspiracy theories are all the rage now
You are either trolling or ignorant. You can doubt a lot of things from the eyewitness accounts of Jesus if you want, but the existence of eyewitness accounts is undeniable by anyone of reasonable knowledge of the evidence.
WatchmanOnTheWall
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Well yes indeed and I believe the Earth is globular but if you have looked into FE you would see that each argument against FE has a counter argument and although most are strange, God has often made the strange real. Such as young Earth V's Old Earth. Global flood V's no flood. Giants V's no Giants. Angels and Demons V's none. A talking snake and donkey V's nonsense. etc.
WatchmanOnTheWall
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WatchmanOnTheWall
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'New' - This arguments been going on for thousands of years. But I agree they do 'look' globular.
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