If the earth was flat when the Bible was written, when did its shape change?

Answer 1

The world used to be a flat round disk ( circle ) in the Old testament but Jesus made it a round sphere in the new Testament. The bible tells us clearly that God originally made it the shape of a flat circle. Jesus decided to make it into a round sphere and it has been a sphere ever since.

Answer 2

You're showing ignorance.

If you actually read the bible you'd know it regularly mentions the earth being round. When it says a King was powerful, it will say, "And he ruled the whole world from Place A to Place B." When I first read the bible I was surprised, because if you know the geography of the area (I'm Palestinian) you realize Place A and B are side by side.

You can come up with stinging questions against religion, but you need to make sure you know what you're saying or you end up looking like the silly one.

Silly. Silly. Okay enough of that.

Answer 3

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”

Answer 4

To my knowledge, the Earth was never flat. Some peoples thought that the earth was flat. Some other peoples--perhaps the ancient Greeks--always knew it was round.

I'm guessing that some passages in the Bible indicate the earth's flatness, and other passages it's roundness. Not every single word in the Bible is literal; some words are poetic.

Literal words convey facts, but sometimes poetic words convey truths greater than mere facts. In other words, you can measure a cup of honey, but can you measure its sweetness? Or, to paraphrase a song called "Inchworm", you can measure the length of a marigold's petals, but can you measure its beauty?

Answer 5

Perhaps its time for a newer version of the bible fictional book to compensate for the reality which we know about today so that the insecure can continue to be hoodwinked.
Interesting to see the comments relating to circles, as if that nullifies the 'flat' assumption.
Some people obviously have difficulty knowing the differance between a circle and a spheroid, and probably have no comprehension of th edifferance between a square and a cube either!.

Answer 6

In the Book of Job, quite possibly the oldest Book of the Bible, probably written before 1400 BC, we read in Chapter 26, verse 7, this remarkable statement: "(He) hangs the earth on nothing"
So we see a scientifically accurate fact about the nature of the earth long before any scientist was making any such statement.

Answer 7

The earth was never flat and wasn't when the Bible was written. But I'm sure with your marvelous brain, you have already figured that out. Perhaps with your amazing capabilities, you could tell us when the shape changed. Dumb question!

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

He spreads spreads out the northern skies , over the empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. (Job 26:7)

He set a compass upon the face of the earth. (Prov. 8:27)

The earth was round back then, too.

Answer 10

It still is apparently:
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
(AND THEY ARE SERIOUS)

They use a lot of Bible arguments and "scientific" arguments. This should be a warning to all you creationists. This is what happens when you don't look to science for answers and use junk evidence to back things up. You get stuck believing some really stupid stuff.