Have you ever done a study regarding sin? Anything can be investigated. Isaiah noted that the Earth is spherical --- that is what was under consideration.
According to Wikipedia --- Eratosthenes of Cyrene . (276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was a
Greek mathematician,
geographer,
poet,
astronomer, and
music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the
Library of Alexandria. He invented the discipline of
geography, including the terminology used today.
He is best known for being the first person to calculate the
circumference of the Earth, which he did by comparing
angles of the mid-day Sun at two places a known North-South distance apart.His calculation was remarkably accurate. He was also the first to calculate the
tilt of the Earth's axis, again with remarkable accuracy. Additionally, he may have accurately calculated the
distance from the Earth to the Sun and invented the
leap day. He created the first
map of the world, incorporating
parallels and
meridians based on the available geographic knowledge of his era.
You may choose to live your life under the burden that you are evil, base and sinful but whatever for. Such an existence carries with it a host of negative socio-psycho connotations.
Regarding your link to AIG, It’s obvious that AIG does no research. Worse than that;
Statement of Faith
Section 2: Basics
· The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches. Its authority is not limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes but includes its assertions in such fields as history and science.
There’s more but it just gets worse.
The first thing we must understand is that faith, in and of itself, is not a pathway to access knowledge. Since the criteria of evidence and proof is not necessary under the constructs of faith (i.e., things are to be believed in
spite of proof or evidence), there are no ways to apply a standard to the claim asserted. Under the guidelines of faith, there is nothing to separate the belief in the gods of ancient Rome or Greece, for instance, from the gods of modern society. Each statement of belief carries the same level of validity, i.e., none.
Faith cannot be used as a tool to access knowledge because it is random. Faith-based assertions carry validity
(sic) not because there is any criteria to back them up, but because a group of people deem it so, and by definition, faith asks that one does not question validity. If one is questioning their faith, it is considered that they are also
losing their faith, not strengthening it.
And yes, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras was among the first to propose the sphericity of the Earth in the 6th century BC, <---- before the invention of Christianity), using among his proofs how the sail of a ship could be observed to disappear over the curvature of the Earth.
Plato also espoused a spherical Earth in the
Phaedra, and his student Aristotle gave his reasoning in his book
On the Heavens in 350 BC. His proof rested on the facts that persons living in southern lands see southern constellations higher above the horizon than those living in northern lands, that the shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round, and that since objects fall to Earth towards its center means that if it were constructed of small bits of matter originally, these parts would naturally settle into a spherical shape. His demonstration was so compelling that a spherical Earth was the central assumption of all subsequent philosophers of the Classical era. He also used the curved phases of the moon to argue that the Moon must also be a sphere like the Earth.
In fact, the global nature of the earth was clearly demonstrated by Eratothenes 2,200 years ago (by comparing shadow lengths in Alexandria and Syene at high noon).