Where in the bible?

Question

Where in the bible does it say the earth was round?

Answer 1

Dude im sorry that people here are so dumb! You didn't say anything about what u were trying to prove with the question all you asked it where in the bible does it say the earth was round...Man the more I know about Christians the more I hate them!

Answer 2

The passage saying the earth is round is Isaiah 40:22:
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
This passage may reasonably be interpreted as referring to a flat circular earth with the heavens forming a dome above it. Such an interpretation is consistent with other passages of the Bible which refer to a solid firmament (Gen. 1:6-20, 7:11; Ezekiel 1:22-26; Job 9:8, 22:14, etc.). It is also consistent with the cosmology common in neighboring cultures.

Isaiah 11:12 refers to the "four quarters of the earth", but we do not take that as indicative of the earth's shape.

The shape of the earth may already have been known in Isaiah's time. Ancient astronomers could determine that the earth was round by observing its circular shadow move across the moon during lunar eclipses. There is some suggestion that the Egyptians knew of the earth's spherical size and shape around 2550 B.C.E. (more than a thousand years before Moses). The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who was born in 532 B.C.E., defended the spherical theory on the basis of observations he had made of the shape of the sun and moon (Uotila 1984). If this information was known by educated Greeks and Egyptians during biblical times, its use by Isaiah is nothing special.

Answer 3

I have an idea.. get yourself a bible, and begin reading from beginning to end. If you can't find it the first time - reread it a second time.. just maybe you'll get more out of the bible than 'is the world round'

Answer 4

Read Isaiah 40:22. Job 26:7 also gives us another characteristic of the earth.

Answer 5

i dont think it says anywhere in the bible how the earth was round. but people had this theory they thought the earth was flat and they thought people would fall off the face of the earth when they drove off.

Answer 6

It doesn't..... It is just something that is assumed but the shapes of the planets or the mention of specifics is not mentioned in the Bible. It all just referred to as Creation.

I think that kinda leaves it wide open, giving God the ability to do whatever because that is the nature of the Master.

Answer 7

I dont know about bible but I know about Qur'an that Allah said that the earth is surrounded by other planets & stars & every thing moves in its specified orbit.....
& this was sent to Muslims believers when there was no consideration of astronomy or astrology or universe study, etc...

Think !
Muslims knew that fact thousand of years ago.
& now it is scientifically proved ....
So tell me whic is the truest book ??
Which is the true religion???

Answer 8

Well, it doesn't say 'round', but I hope you discern it to be as found in Isaiah.

Isaiah 40:22
(ESV) It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Answer 9

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the **circle of the earth**, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Please read this up for more details and explanations.

The Bible and the flat earth?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c015.html

Who invented the flat earth?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c034.html

"Four Corners" of the earth?
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c017.html

http://home.netcom.com/~horse/new.html

Answer 10

isa 40:22