Historical Mistakes, Bad Science, and False Prophets
Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006
by Bruce Horst
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What do these three things have in common:
- A junior high principal congratulating her honor-roll students by comparing them to Albert Einstein.
- A well-known scientist debunking an uneducated inventor, comparing the inventors theories with that of those who believed the Earth to be flat.
- A clergyman strongly rebuking "worldly sinners", telling them that he is only doing this because according to the Bible, he is commanded to.
Let's think about it: Do you think Albert Einstein was ever congratulated by his teachers in his early-education? No, Albert Einstein was not an honor student. His teachers said he was 'retarded' and would never amount to anything. His teachers were WRONG!
Was it the educated scientists who first proved that the World was not flat? No, it was the educated scientists who wanted Christopher Columbus killed for promoting such heresy as to suggest the World might not be flat. These scientists were WRONG!
Did Jesus Christ walk the Earth, condemning and rebuking the lost and the sinners? No, according to the Bible, it was the religious people of the day that condemned Jesus for living among the sinners. The only recorded rebuking that Jesus did was when he was rebuking the religious leaders, who were looking down their noses at others who were different than them, while they themselves were secretly harboring evil. Guess what? The religious leaders were WRONG!
If you don't think history repeats itself, you don't have to look far to find that even today, the misfits, the down-trodden, and those adventurers who dare to question the mindset of the vast majority are looked down on and dismissed as worthless, unimportant idiots. And this is WRONG!
Think about it.
(Sorry, just needed to get this off my chest...)
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Top-level comments on this article: (6 total)I couldn’t agree more Mr. Horst, that’s what I keep telling everyone. “I’m right and the worlds wrong” ha ha only kidding, no seriously many of our great achievers in all fields of knowledge were considered to be crackpots at one time in their lives. Scientists of his day, told Thomas Edison an electric light bulb would be impossible to create.Ha ha, David. How can the World be full of so many people who don't know they are wrong, when you and I are here to tell them? (just kidding.)
What other Historical Mistakes can you come up with? Please leave them as comments!Pildown man! Look it up. Semelweis in the field of medicine. Inactive elements. Joseph Lister. The list could go on and on.
It is only popular myth that Christopher Columbus was the one to dispell the "world is flat" idea. People believed in a spherical earth long before Columbus.Andy makes the statement that people believed in a global earth long before Columbus and just expects us to believe him. I would like to know if that is true, where is his proof?Andy is right. Ancient Greeks such as Eratosthenes knew the Earth was not flat.Aristotle provided obervational evidence for a spherical Earth, some time around 330 BCE.Many cultures discovered that the Earth was spherical (at least approximately - it is really more of an oblate spheroid) - the curved shadow cast by the earth on the moon was a powerful clue that was picked up by ancient astronomers in many ancient societies.Do you have some evidence or reference for this, Ben?Actually Rosemary from the UK has some evidence below. However it was a common belief that the earth was flat around the time of Columbus even tho some may have disagreed if they were alive at the time. Remember back when some of those people made statements, there was an oral tradition. Things that people said were not often written down. So when the speaker dies, it was often passed on orally what he said. This may or may not have led to mistaken beliefs.There's plenty of evidence, here's just a couple of examples:Eratosthenes knew the earth wasn't flat:w w w dot britannica dot com / EBchecked / topic / 191064 / Eratosthenes-of-CyreneThe (roughly) spherical Earth concept was around long before Columbus and was well known to him and also to most of those who opposed his voyage:w w w-istp dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov/ stargaze / Scolumb dot htm
Short...but good! darn good article!
It's true. Christopher Columbus has nothing to do with the Earth being spherical...I believe 6th century BC or more. Maybe YOU should also, learn more about science and facts :) no offense, great artcile thoughThink about this one where it says in the Bible, Isaiah 40:21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah began prophesying about 740 b.c. good article.
Certainly the bible does "command" those in the church leadership to repove, exhort those whos sins oppose their own lives and the teaching of Christ. This in no way makes them a "false prophet." In fact the only way one can be called a false prophet is to make false prophecies. Your generalities can easily be misconstued. Jesus rebuked Peter. Paul and Thomas all severly and publicly and they were not pharisees or religious leaders.Rev Michael BrescianiRev Michael Bresciani's comments are incorrect. The example given here if of condemning sinners. Did Jesus condemn the people you say he did because they were sinners?
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