students in my InterVarsity chapter who were discussing the same issues. I knew I wasn’t alone. As I began to read the work of biblical scholars, I learned that the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Hebrews believed the earth was flat, with a solid dome sky and an ocean above the sky. That picture sounds totally strange to us, but they really believed it! They thought that rain falls when holes open up in the dome to let the water through. But this ancient picture helped me finally understand what’s