EyesOpened Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I am going to take a stab at this because i am still working on conveying my thoughts to words. Does anyone know if there was any mention of lands outside of the continents of Asia,Africa,or Europe in the bible. I ask this because if there isn't i would believe that proves how shortsighted and Human the Bible really is. Think about this. Knowing what we know now were human living during the bible time able to travel to different continents with the boats they had? I guess finding out how local the stories stayed and trying to come up with a map of all the lands mentioned in the bible would be interesting to see. I was thinking the other day about how hard it was for the settlers in America in the 1800's just to make a trip out west. So, i couldn't imagine how hard it would have been, during the time of when events in the Bible happened, for them to travel across an OCEAN! What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphicsGuy Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 The Bible only seems to focus on the lands surrounding the Mediterranean and what we now know as the Middle East. Most other lands are "voiced" as myth and legend and usually only given symbolic reference - except perhaps for the wise men from the "east". The horses/riders and beasts listed in Daniel, Revelation, and Zechariah are generally interpreted to be powerful nations. Those that wrote the Bible knew/suspected there were lands beyond the "known" boundaries, but it was as mysterious to them as the stars are to us today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thackerie Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 There is nothing -- not one thing -- in the bible that was not known or imagined by the men who wrote it. If there had been predictions of things like the discovery of vast continence that might have given the bible some validity. As it is, it has none. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mymistake Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Bible's geography stretches from Rome in the north west to Babylon in the east and back to Egypt in the south west. Nothing else was known to the Bible authors. The gospel writers seemed to think that if Satan took Jesus to a high mountain then all the kingdoms of the Earth could be seen at the same time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesOpened Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Bible's geography stretches from Rome in the north west to Babylon in the east and back to Egypt in the south west. Nothing else was known to the Bible authors. The gospel writers seemed to think that if Satan took Jesus to a high mountain then all the kingdoms of the Earth could be seen at the same time. Which made me wonder if they thought the only accessible land they could access was all there was. Kind of seem like it other than them making those vague references other mentioned above. Shows how dated and Human orientated the Bible really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwc Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The bible mentions lots of places but if you want to modern idea of where it talks about then picture Italy in the west, Iraq in the east, Turkey (Asia Minor) in the north and Egypt (including the peninsula) in the south. That's about it. The sum total of the biblical world. When they talk about the future and people invading from the east they're talking about people crossing the Tigris and Euphrates. Without getting into to many details we're basically talking about the Parthians (the Romans major enemies at the time) which translates into basically modern day Persians so I guess we should probably include (at least part of) Iran as well. While this is a fairly large region it doesn't really include most of the very land mass that the authors were actually running around on during their lives. So much was left unrevealed to them (not to mention the whole other side of the planet). They basically knew what anyone else who was educated at their level would probably know about their world. mwc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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