Where in the Bible?

Question

I've seen some people saying the Bible says the world is flat. Could you please tell me where it says this? Chapter and verse please. Thanks

Answer 1

Rev. 7:1 (NKJV)
After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

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People took the verses that mentioned the "four corners" of the earth and assumed the earth was flat.

But there is also a verse stating the circle of the earth...
Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)
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 out like a tent to dwell in.

Answer 2

It doesnt say so, this is a common misconceptions

The Bible says 'He hands the earth on nothing' and speaks of 'the circle of the earth' in Job and Isaiah

What you sometimes see is the normal use of language like 'the four corners of the earth' which we see used in modern times. Newspapers will say 'the sun rose at 5:48am' and this is no claim that the Sun revolves around the earth, it is the normal use of language given anthopic experience.

regarding the coment from an above poster "
Disregarding the dome, the essential flatness of the earth's surface is required by verses like Daniel 4:10-11. In Daniel, the king “saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds.” If the earth were flat, a sufficiently tall tree would be visible to “the earth's farthest bounds,” but this is impossible on a spherical earth.

comment: this is a vision, its like poetry, the King of Babylon was the greatest king of the known world this remains the normal use of language

Likewise, in describing the temptation of Jesus by Satan, Matthew 4:8 says, “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.” Obviously, this would be possible only if the earth were flat.

comment: not true you cannot see a single city from the highest mountain... if Satan can bring Jesus to a high mountain miraculously he can show the people of the planet to Jesus miraculaously as well

The same is true of Revelation 1:7: “Behold, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye shall see him...” "

comment: you never heard of TV coverage? every eye can see a space launch or an olympic event already

In the end... we;re talking normal use of language. You could have used the example of when Jesus comes back, some are working in day and some asleep at night at the same time leans toward a round earth does it not?

Answer 3

This page I found lists chapters and verses. I don't necessarily believe in the bible-flat-earth claims. There are other passages that imply that the earth is round.


The Shape of the Earth

Disregarding the dome, the essential flatness of the earth's surface is required by verses like Daniel 4:10-11. In Daniel, the king “saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds.” If the earth were flat, a sufficiently tall tree would be visible to “the earth's farthest bounds,” but this is impossible on a spherical earth. Likewise, in describing the temptation of Jesus by Satan, Matthew 4:8 says, “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.” Obviously, this would be possible only if the earth were flat. The same is true of Revelation 1:7: “Behold, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye shall see him...”

Answer 4

Since the Bible is no science book there is little chance of finding an explicit statement to this effect.

However, there are expressions that suggest a world view with a "flat earth". For instance, it speaks about "the four corners of the earth", or "the ends of the earth". The Bible also speaks about the waters "above, on and below" the earth, which seems to suggest that the Earth lies as a pancake sandwiches between water masses.

Sorry, I have no Bible handy at the moment, but these expressions are easy to find.

Answer 5

The versions of the bible that I have read, KJV mostly, but don't remember the publisher, usually have a depiction of the Earth in the very beginning, near Genesis 1 depicting a flat Earth with the dome of heaven above and Sheol below. I think what you are refering to is the tendancy of some to group bible thumpers with "flat Earthers"; this is done to show not that bible thumpers believe that, but that the belief that everything in the bible is a pure fact is as illogical as believing that the Earth is flat.

Answer 6

There is no verse that says "the earth is flat", but that is the implication of these 3 verses:


"take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it (Job 38:12-13) - globes don't have edges, but flat earths do.

"[T]he devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" - it's impossible to see all the kingdoms of the earth from a high mountain if the earth is a globe

The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. (Daniel 4:10-11) - can't see the whole earth no matter how high you go if it's a globe.

Answer 7

1 Samuel 2:8
Job 37:3
Isaiah 11:12
Revelations 7:1
aLL say the Bible has edges and corners or that it is resting on piLLars, if it was taLking figurativeLy then it was doing so at a time period when peopLe thought it was the truth this is not a very smart move on God's part, this aLso wouLd mean that the Bible is not 100% LiteraL, something creationists hate to say.
Matthew 6:13
Daniel 4:10-11
Both require a fLat earth to be physicaLLy possibLe, unLess the earth is cLear.

Answer 8

Yeah, that's a 4 corners of the earth reference. It's only a figure of speech, since that's what everyone believed at the time, if they even thought about it. They don't actually state that "the world is flat". The Catholic church tried to hold that belief, like many other beliefs that they have that aren't actually backed up in the Bible.

Answer 9

The Bible does not say it, however, there are Apocryphal Books, written during the same period by other biblical personalities, but their writings were excluded from the canon of inspired books, that had issues with things such as, "lands beyond the oceans" that caused controversy in their day and even caused them to be excluded because there were no known "lands beyond the oceans" in those days.

It was generally believed in biblical times the world consisted of what we now know as the Roman Empire.

There were writings in those days that stirred this issue, but it is not found in the actual Canonical Holy Inspired Bible.

Answer 10

It doesn't at all. And in fact, in Isaiah it refers to the "circle of the earth" long before science was even around to prove that the earth was round. I'm of the belief that the ones who told you that were out to try to prove that the Bible and science can't work together. But in reality, so far the two agree. There are some theories that may disagree, but the theories haven't been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt and so can't be said with absolute certainty that they are true. But everything in science that has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt agrees with the Bible.