In the bible it says the Earth is a 'circle' which is flat like a pizza, has an 'edge' and 'ends' (the edge of the pizza). Even the people writing the bible never taught anyone that the Earth was 'round' or a 'sphere'. The church even killed people for saying the Earth was 'round'. Bible says Earth is flattened like 'stamped clay'. In the Hebrew bible they use the word "chuwg' (flat circle) instead of 'duwr' (round,spherical, ball shaped). Everyone at that time thought the Earth was flat, but why if they really talked to God?
2006-10-28 13:19:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, the Church has always feared new knowlege, including the concept of zero.
2006-10-28 13:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Bible does not teach that the earth is flat. The flat-earth idea is a relatively recent invention that reached its peak only after Darwinists tried to discredit the Bible, according to a professor of history at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Professor Jeffrey Burton Russell
The Bible actually teaches a spherical shape for the earth. In Isaiah 40:22 God is said to sit above “the circle of the earth” (the Hebrew word for circle can also mean a sphere). Also, in Luke 17:34–36 Christ's Second Coming is portrayed as occurring while some are asleep at night and others are working at daytime activities — which means a rotating earth with day and night at the same time.
2006-10-28 20:22:59 · answer #2 · answered by coutterhill 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I was not aware that the church ever killed anyone for saying that the Earth was round, and I know church history fairly well. You are making that up.
The Bible never says that the Earth is flat. That is your interpretation. True, the Bible never says that the Earth is a sphere either. That trival fact is simply not important to morality stories that make up the Bible.
2006-10-28 20:24:27 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I'm pretty sure the earth is referred to as a sphere in the Bible. To take a verse that talks of the four corners of the earth and twist it into "the Bible says it's flat" is really twisting things.
2006-10-28 20:24:24 · answer #4 · answered by creationrocks2006 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't.
Genesis 1
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
2006-10-28 20:28:20 · answer #5 · answered by sworddove 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, but what shape can be viewed from any angel as a circle, a sphere or globe like our earth.
2006-10-28 20:22:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously you are crazy. The catholic church makes up lots of things. And the bible doesnt have the word pizza in it...
2006-10-28 20:22:26 · answer #7 · answered by Zach 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If this were the only error in the bible, it wouldn't matter much, but it is one of hundreds. In addition, there are dozens of internal contradictions. The net result: it is unsafe to treat it as anything other than fiction.
2006-10-28 20:24:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the Bible was written by a group of ignorant and fearful Bronze-Age fishermen and shepherds. Look for real wisdom elsewhere.
2006-10-28 20:21:36 · answer #9 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Actually it was contemporaries of Copernicus who didn't like the attention he was getting who attempted to use the authority of the church to silence him by branding him a heretic.
2006-10-28 20:25:49 · answer #10 · answered by john c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋