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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Where Does Your Bible Map To?

Really, but not in the usual "spiritual" talking point of view. Where on a map can you find places in the Bible? And if you can identify those places, where is can the effects of the Gospel be most felt in those areas?

Ok, so the second part might be harder to answer than the first, but there is a point or two to start from. According to the ESV Blog, the folks at OpenBible.info have added geocodes to the places mentioned in the Bible.

What is a geocode? According to Wikipedia a geocode is a "code that represents a geospatial coordinate measurement of an exact geographic location and time at, below, or above the surface of the earth."

But some of you are like "cool" and others are like "so what."
Here's the answer to the "so what" part: you can tell someone how far your church is from where Solomon built the temple; you can tell your kids to walk on water and actually give them a distance of how far that was; or, various other things you can point out being that now you can give a real world place to the places that in some respects no longer exist, or exist in the same way they did when parts of the Bible was written.

Or you can be really bold and go to those places and then add to our Frapper map where you are :)