Hadrian denar, Crescent and Stars << < (5/5) *Robert_Brenchley*: Does anyone have the reference for Lactantius? Eusebius, incidentally, calculated 5199 years from Adam to Abraham. Numerous people have tried to establish the age of the Earth from the Bible, and no two of them have ever arrived at the same result. Genesis 1 provides an elaborate description of a flat earth, which led some to conclude that it could not be spherical. I think we could well wonder whether the authors of the book really intended it as a literal description, especially when they placed it side by side with a contrasting account of creation in Genesis 2. I do wonder how the average farmer of the time would have imagined the planet, but unfortunately we've no way of knowing. *curtislclay*: Returning to Red Henry's original question, the spheres depicted on coins usually represent the celestial sphere, frequently being adorned with zodiac belts and stars, so are irrelevant to the question of whether the ancients knew that the EARTH was a globe. Navigation [0] Message Index [*] Previous page