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1492 And All That

December 2025
1min read

When Gloria Deák writes of “the ancient biblical notions that the earth was a flat disk with Jerusalem in the center and that one could fall off the edge,” she fails to differentiate between what some early Christians believed and what the Bible actually states. Nowhere does the Bible say that the earth is flat.

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