Where does it say in the bible that the earth is flat? Bible says the earth is round Isaiah 40:22?

Question

Where does it say in the bible that the earth is flat?

Isaiah 40:22 says that the earth is round as in a "circle"

Answer 1

anyone who takes a stand against the poetic style of the Bible, has rejected that it is acceptable, in literature to use such prose.
In the Bible, as with many well respected works, illustration and poetic language are acceptable.
Only those with narrow to closed minds take a stand against such things. Even fundamentalists expose their ignorance and intolerance by taking the narrow view that everything scripture is to be taken literally. That is how they effectively shut the door to life to not only themselves, but to those of whom they deter with their error.
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Answer 2

The phrase the "four corners of the Earth" are referring to the four cardinal compass directions (North, East, etc.). It is just a figure of speech that is used even today.

Even by the First Century (the time that the book of Revelations was written), everyone knew that the Earth was round, so the first guy to answer is wrong.

People who are trying to ridicule the Bible or the Christian faith will pull passages out of their historical and literary context in order to make it sound silly. If people can only poke fun at the Bible by being dishonest about what it teaches, then they obviously don't have a leg to stand on.

Answer 3

Very good, you ascertained the truth. Contrary to some the above responses, the Bible never says the Earth is flat. When the Bible refers to the "ends of the Earth", it is not speaking literally of the Earth having a visable end. Rather, it is showing the magnitude of our Creator by using creative imagery, just like you may find in your favorite book. Jesus set this standard when he spoke in parables, using illustrations to make his listeners reason on what he was saying. The Bible speaks contiuously in this type of language because the scriptures are for those seeking the truth and wanting to learn what God's written word means - not for those who think their understanding is much more higher than our Creator. The quotes you received from Revelation in some of your other answers also show lack of reasoning for Revelation 1:1 begins "A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John". Notice the words "in signs". This would mean that most of this book is not to be taken literally. In conclusion, sometimes its better to use common logic. When you look in the sky, all the luminaries appear round do they not? Scientist have viewed many planets and moons and all have been noted as being round. Common sense tells us that when Jehovah God said the "circle of the Earth" as found in Isaiah 40:22, he was indicating round, not flat. Good thing Columbus used common sense.

Answer 4

THE TIME ISAIAH WAS IN THE WORLD


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:

Isaiah was 827 to 714 before Christ and he knew the earth was a circle shape.

Source(s):

Bible.

Answer 5

The 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 6

In biblical times, people thought the earth was a flat disc, and they wrote scriptures accordingly.

A circle is flat. A sphere is not.

Check the sourced link for much more on biblical flat-earthism.

Answer 7

4 corners in response to comment 1, if you study into it means North East South and West, the 4 directions or 4 wings. that doesnt mean its flat.

Answer 8

Revelations 7:1 --
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.

Revelation 20:8 --
and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.

Since when did circles or spheres have four corners?

Deuteronomy 28:49 --
The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 33:17 --
In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh."

1 Samuel 2:10 --
those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder against them from heaven; the LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed."

Job 28:24 --
for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Psalm 22:27 --
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,

Since when did circles and spheres have ends? To have ends, a geometric entity must be finite and bounded, but circles and spheres are finite and UNbounded.

Answer 9

It is an expression, still used today by modern novelists.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/bs.asp?ss=text&s=four+corners+of+the+earth

Answer 10

yes, and in the jerusalem talmud, written by ancient rabbis, they describe the world as a "ball".