Dose anyone still believe the Earth is flat ?

Question

In the time when the Bible was written, they must have !

How then is it the word of a divinity ?

dr h lector, the church ( catholic, was THE church ) believed the earth was flat then that it was the centre of the universe, as knowledge increases ideas change.

Answer 1

Qur’an says that Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet. This gives an indication that the earth is flat. Does this not contradict established modern science?

Answer

1. Earth made as a carpet
The question refers to a verse from the Qur’an in Surah Nuh:

"And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)."
[Al-Qur’an 71:19]

But the sentence in the above verse is not complete. It continues in the next verse, explaining the previous verse. It says:

"That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads."
[Al-Qur’an 71:20]

A similar message is repeated in Surah TaHa:

"He Who has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels)...."
[Al-Qur’an 20:53]

The surface of the earth i.e. earth’s crust is less than 30 miles in thickness and is very thin as compared to the radius of the earth which is about 3750 miles. The deeper layers of the earth are very hot, fluid and hostile to any form of life. The earth’s crust is a solidified shell on which we can live. The Qur’an rightly refers to it like a carpet spread out, so that we can travel along its roads and paths.

2. Carpet can also be spread on other than an absolute flat surface
Not a single verse of the Qur’an says that the earth is flat. The Qur’an only compares the earth’s crust with a carpet. Some people seem to think that carpet can only be put on an absolute flat surface. It is possible to spread a carpet on a large sphere such as the earth. It can easily be demonstrated by taking a huge model of the earth’s globe covering it with a carpet.

Carpet is generally put on a surface, which is not very comfortable to walk on. The Qur’an describes the earth crust as a carpet, without which human beings would not be able to survive because of the hot, fluid and hostile environment beneath it. The Qur’an is thus not only logical, it is mentioning a scientific fact that was discovered by geologists centuries later.

3. Earth has been spread out
Similarly, the Qur’an says in several verses that the earth has been spread out.

"And We have spread out the (spacious) earth: how excellently We do spread out!"
[Al-Qur’an 51:48]

Similarly the Qur’an also mentions in several other verses that the earth is an expanse:

"Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse"
"And the mountains as pegs?"
[Al-Qur’an 78:6-7]

None of these verses of the Qur’an contain even the slightest implication that the earth is flat. It only indicates that the earth is spacious and the reason for this spaciousness of the earth is mentioned. The Glorious Qur’an says:

"O My servants who believe! truly. spacious is My Earth: therefore serve ye Me –(And Me alone)!"
[Al-Qur’an 29:56]

Therefore none can give the excuse, that he could not do good and was forced to do evil because of the surroundings and circumstances.

4. Earth is geospherical in shape
The Qur’an mentions the actual shape of the earth in the following verse:

"And we have made the earth egg shaped".
[Al-Qur’an 79:30]

The Arabic word Dahaha means egg shaped. It also means an expanse. Dahaha is derived from Duhiya which specifically refers to the egg of an ostrich which is geospherical in shape, exactly like the shape of the earth.

Thus the Qur’an and modern established science are in perfect harmony.

Answer 2

Charles Kenneth Johnson (July 24, 1924, San Angelo, Texas - March 19, 2001, Lancaster, California) was, from 1972 until his death, the president and energetic promoter of the International Flat Earth Society, which he and his wife ran from their home in California. He claimed the Apollo moon landings, and space exploration in general, were faked to lead people away from the truth of the Bible, which he said taught the Earth was flat.

He probably left a few followers.

Answer 3

There are still people who consider the world to be flat. There are also towns in the US (and elsewhere I would assume) which have banned modern science theories and books, and still teach their children that the earth is the centre of the known galaxy, and that God created the world in 7 days.
Now, I have nothing against christian belief, or any other faith based-belief system.... but when a school teaches a scientifically wrong thing to a child, that is morally wrong, in my own honourably opinion.

Answer 4

thats a strange question - basically you ask does anyone believe the earth is flat and then you say (in your opinion) that in biblical times " they must have". You show no evidence that people in biblical times thought the earth was flat and then you go on to infer that the unproven beliefs which you have assumed are the word of god./a divinity.
it seems that your question is just an empty assault on other peoples beliefs. i could have reason to think that from the above question you have asked, that you are the sort of person who dislikes the fact that other people have different beliefs from you.

Answer 5

Don't tell the Muslims the Earth is not flat, because it is written in the Quran that the Earth is flat. As we all heard over and over again that they can't change anything in the Quran, and they must believe EVERTHING in the Quran, then they must still believe in that too, or they will not be true Muslims.

Now, watch all the thumbs down. Thanks guys, it only shows you can't take the truth!

Answer 6

I don't know about the god stuff, but I can tell you that there is still an offical flat earth society, of people who still "believe' the world is flat. I'm fairly sure they're just taking the mickey though

Answer 7

it is funny though...

the Bible as we know it is a compilation of 66 or so books written by dozens of writers over a span of hundreds of years...

but i know that there is this one little known verse in the book of Isaiah, a surviving copy of which I believe was with the Dead Sea Scrolls...contains a line that says something about around the circle of the earth... which must have been divinely inspired for as you have said... how could a writer back then, know that.... hmmm... go figure.

Answer 8

The bible was written like two hundred years after the death of christ. a group of monks chose which sections to use from people... not just mathew mark luke and john and that.... it is actually a fact, not just from the da vinchi code ;)

Answer 9

some parts of the earth are flat.

Answer 10

Yes and it is riding on the back of four giant elephants who are on the back of a giant turtle. ;o)