randomrogue
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Well, of course... in hindsight, everyone's stupid. But I was speaking to people who lived before the 6th Centrury BCE. I don't what Jesus has to do with this, BTW.
If you were born, say... in 2000 BCE, would you have stood on a hill and proclaimed the Earth wasn't flat? I don't think so...
No. Absolutely not. I'm not going to let you misdirect this. It was not written then. The oldest parts of the bible, the Torah, were written around 600BC to 400BC. The part you quoted which deals with the water tables, Ecclesiastes, was written between 450BC and 180BC. Here's what it says:
All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
Not only did you time everything wrong since this passage was written after scholars mathematically understood that the earth wasn't flat but it really doesn't tell us anything special.
This is one of the most misunderstood parts of ancient history. Anyone who ever set foot on a boat would have know that the Earth was not flat. Surely you were taught in grade school that anyone who saw objects on the horizon would realize that they were on a curve.
My point, it was written in 1000 BCE... 400 years before people even verified the shape of the Earth. Likely, no one would have even known that waters were taken back from which they came to keep the Oceans from overflowing. We now know this as the water cycle, though it wasn't called that. He was right, though... no matter the details he didn't know about. The water does return from which it came, and comes down again.
EDIT: I was checking your links too, so see if the Flat earth was indeed a myth. I see where you're going. My bad.
Shit now I see your edit. Either way you are repeating bible teachings that are flat wrong. For some reason they think people can't look up the dates things were written today but eventually people will be sitting in Church, Temple, etc and will hold up their smart phone and call bullshit on these teachings. Moses did not write these texts 1500 years ago. This should be obvious since he couldn't write about his own death.