Remember..the same people that wrote the bible also said the world is flat. Why is this?

Answer 1

At that time it was.

Flat, and covered by a giant dome, the Dome of Heaven.

This was the true Noah's Ark, the giant generational ship that brought the human race to this world, and founded the colony of Atlantis.

Answer 2

Just an example. A common saying. "People come from the four corners of the earth to compete in the Olympics." I'm I saying that I believe that the world is flat? I hope not! What I am saying is that people from the entire earth will be at the Olympics.

When the Scriptures say that the "Lord sits on the circle of the earth." Does that mean that the world is a disc. I do not think so.

I have seen several say that the Bible says that the world is flat but nobody gives a reference. Please give a reference.

I hope that your question was sincere. I'm sure that you know that there are a lot of questions that are anything but sincere.

Answer 3

I do not recall that the people who wrote the Bible said the world is flat. I am quite certain that there is no proof anywhere that any of the authors of the Bible ever said the world was flat.

Answer 4

Which ones? There are 67 books in the bible and the psalms were written by many different authors.

The book of Job, thought to be the one of the oldest writings ever found, says the world is round. In fact, the bible stated many things that were only scientifically proven in the last 150 years, like washing your hands before you eat. Germs were not known before the microscope, nor that sickness was spread in this way.

I know that you are just trying to be provoking, but, it would be best to read the bible with a fair mind before you quote what someone else has probably told you.

Answer 5

No one in the Bible said the world was flat

Answer 6

the people wrote the bible came out about 1200 years before the people who said the world is flat

Answer 7

Because those people were semi-nomadic goat herders whose two most lasting contributions (other than the Bible) to mankind are circumcision and sex with sheep. It just does not get any weirder than that.

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Droppinsh... -

Did they lose the knowledge in the meantime?

They certainly did think the earth was flat - otherwise why does the Bible say that the entire earth was visible from a high mountain top? Did they have special optics that allowed them boomerang their line of sight?

I suppose they also had electricity and indoor toilets.

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Don P -

We geologically-gifted use it as an expression - an HISTORICAL expression from the time when people thought the earth was flat.

Those sheep jumpers lived 1500-1600 years (at least) before Galileo and Newton. They were as ignorant as those today who reject the reality of evolution (coincidentally, these are the same people most likely to have sex with sheep - I guess you call that historical continuity).

Answer 8

Where did you hear that they said the world is flat? In Biblical times, they weren't concerned with the shape of the world, but the condition of the world and its inhabitants. It wasn't until the 1400's, many centuries later, before anyone was concerned about the earth's dimensions. Then Columbus and the early explorers discovered the world was round because they sailed in one direction and eventually returned to the same spot they started out. The Bible had nothing to do with that.

Answer 9

I'm not a believer in the Bible, but what book have you been reading?

The Bible speaks of "the four corners of the Earth" just as the most geologically gifted of us still do today, but I don't believe that it says anywhere that the world is flat.

Answer 10

Thanks, neil s, you saved my sanity. Finally someone who doesn't believe that people thought the earth was flat into the second millenium.

"The Earth's circumference was measured around 240 BCE by Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes knew that in Syene (now Aswan), in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice, while he estimated that a shadow cast by the Sun at Alexandria was 1/50th of a circle. He estimated the distance from Syene to Alexandria as 5,000 stades, and estimated the Earth's circumference was 250,000 stades and a degree was 700 stades (implying a circumference of 252,000 stades). Eratosthenes used rough estimates and round numbers, but depending on the length of the stadion, his result is within a margin of between 2% and 20% of the actual circumference, 40,008 kilometres. Note that Eratosthenes could only measure the circumference of the Earth by assuming that the distance to the Sun is so great that the rays of sunlight are essentially parallel."
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To people who say "it was just a figure of speech". How do you know this? You are reading it with knowledge you have now. Maybe they DID believe it was flat and wrote it as flat, and now you are interpreting it as a phrase, as it is now common knowledge.

Answer 11

Too funny. The bible does not explicitly say the earth is flat. It does use terms like "the four corners of the earth" and "the ends of the earth." Both phrases are still in common use today, yet we know the earth is round. They simply mean "as far as the eye can see." In other words, a great distance or the entire earth.