Sunday, September 20, 2026

No Flat Earther Here, Sirs (Nor Many in Early Church History)


@answersingenesis
Did the Church Teach That the Earth Is Flat?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1YUIhlLloRs


While the Church didn't teach the Earth was flat, it seems individual Church Fathers did.

And that's good, it means they rejected Greek cosmology. Now, is Greek cosmology that bad? Not really, but Greek cosmology taught concentric solid and transparent (so, crystalline) spheres.

Meanwhile, this leaves all of the early Church teaching that "Earth" ... sorry LAND ... has four corners, which is what Eretz means in contexts like Apoc. 7:1 (not sure of the precise extension of meaning of the Greek "ge" but it's used as a calque of Eretz), and all of the early Church teaching that Earth (this time, it's the correct English term) doesn't move, but Heavens move around Earth up to the stars.

(Solid spheres were refuted by Tycho Brahe, by the way, when observing a comet as not purely atmospheric and which would have passed through several solids if they had been there).

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