Would you believe the earth was still FLAT if it was in your good book?

Answer 1

As long as the road goes to Wal Mart, I dont care if it's flat.

Answer 2

I'm sure that there are a lot of "good books" out there that would suggest that the earth is flat. Although it has been proven not to be.
However God made the world and all of the planets in it, earth being one of them.
Now if God made the other planets round why do you think that he would decide to make the earth flat?
The Bible, which is not just a "good book" but the Greatest book ever written, does not say that the earth is flat.
All that having been said, I'm really not clear on your question is it directed towards any particular "good book" ?
But if God's word said it I would beleive it.
Now I have another question for you. If you were going to buy a car and you wanted to know what it was made of, and how it was made, would you ask and beleive the dealer or the maker?

Answer 3

But it isn't in the Bible, in matter of fact, it describes the earth as a sphere.

I am sure if the Bible said the world was flat, we would find that it was, however it doesn't.


A literal translation of Job 26:10 is "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end." A spherical earth is also described in Isaiah 40:21-22 - "the circle of the earth."

Isaiah 40:22:

‘It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers

Proverbs 8:27 also suggests a round earth by use of the word circle (e.g., New King James Bible and New American Standard Bible). If you are overlooking the ocean, the horizon appears as a circle. This circle on the horizon is described in Job 26:10. The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth. Yet here it is recorded in Job, ages before the Greeks discovered it. Job 26:10 indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe

The implication of a round earth is seen in the book of Luke, where Jesus described his return, Luke 17:31. Jesus said, "In that day," then in verse 34, "In that night." This is an allusion to light on one side of the globe and darkness on the other simultaneously

Perhaps no phrase in Scripture has been so controversial as the phrase, "the four corners of the earth." The word translated "corners," as in the phrase above, is the Hebrew word, KANAPH. Kanaph is translated in a variety of ways. However, it generally means extremity.

It is translated "borders" in Numbers 15:38. In Ezekiel 7:2 it is translated "four corners" and again in Isaiah 11:12 "four corners." Job 37:3 and 38:13 as "ends."

The Greek equivalent in Revelation 7:1 is gonia. The Greek meaning is perhaps more closely related to our modern divisions known as quadrants. Gonia literally means angles, or divisions. It is customary to divide a map into quadrants as shown by the four directions.

Some have tried to ridicule the Bible to say that it teaches that the earth is square. The Scripture makes it quite clear that the earth is a sphere (Isaiah 40:22).

Some have tried to say there are four knobs, or peaks on a round earth. Regardless of the various ways kanaph is translated, it makes reference to EXTREMITIES.

There are many ways in which God the Holy Spirit could have said corner. Any of the following Hebrew words could have been used:

Pinoh is used in reference to the cornerstone.
Paioh means "a geometric corner"
Ziovyoh means "right angle" or "corner"
Krnouth refers to a projecting corner.
Paamouth - If the Lord wanted to convey the idea of a square, four-cornered earth, the Hebrew word paamouth could have been used. Paamouth means square.
Instead, the Holy Spirit selected the word kanaph, conveying the idea of extremity.
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Answer 4

That’s kind of a weird question. On the one hand, anything that genuinely qualifies as scripture is, by definition, “the word of the Lord” (Doctrine & Covenants 68:4). Since God will never lie to us, scripture is always true. On the other hand, things don’t become true simply because someone puts them in a book; truth is independent of any one person’s (or any billions of people’s) beliefs.

The bottom line is that this question tries to put the cart before the horse, so to speak. If the “Good Book” *did* say the earth were flat, it would be true, but it wouldn’t be true just because the “Good Book” said it; it would be independently true, and the scriptures would just be reporting that truth.

Answer 5

The bible is very clear on stating that the earth is flat. If you think it doesn't, you are mistaken. If it the bible is literally god's word, why is it open to interpretation. It says what is says. Earth was created in seven days, real 24 hour days. The earth is flat, just as it states (there are hundreds of references to a flat earth). The bible is not "metaphor", that is just what people who can no longer believe it say to justify it.

Answer 6

Actually, the idea of a flat earth DID come from the Bible... Those silly literallists taking the part that references "the four corners of the earth" LITERALLY interpereting that to mean the earth is flat.


When are people going to realize that the Bible is full of metaphors, and that is OKAY?

Believing that the earth is millions of years old has NOTHING to do with living your life according to the Spirit of Christ.

Answer 7

Copernic and Galileo are not the early discoverers of the centricity of the sun. Long before them, it was already recorded in the Quran that each planet has its own orbit. And the concept of astronomy in the Quran is far advanced beyond the knowledge of the scientists today. Now, the Baha'i Faith is opening even wider horizons...
Religion does not confine the education of man only on the observation of the physical matter; it perfectly educates man physically, intellectually and spiritually.
Man should broaden his mind to encompass all aspects of religion, instead of making criticism based on the immaturity of a number of believers millennea ago.

Answer 8

It wasn't in the good book exactly, but the Catholic Church at the beginning of the European Scientific Revolution had a problem with it because it meant Earth and man were no longer the center of the universe.

Answer 9

not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation." (The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20, Chapt. 19 [AD 408]) With the scriptures it is a matter of treating about the faith. For that reason, as I have noted repeatedly, if anyone, not understanding the mode of divine eloquence, should find something about these matters [about the physical universe] in our books, or hear of the same from those books, of such a kind that it seems to be at variance with the perceptions of his own rational faculties, let him believe that these other things are in no way necessary to the admonitions or accounts or predictions of the scriptures. In short, it must be said that our authors knew the truth about the nature of the skies, but it was not the intention of the Spirit of God, who spoke through them, to teach men anything that would not be of use to them for their salvation." (ibid, 2:9) - st. augustine


but i probally would since the bible doesn't lie

Answer 10

No. To be perfectly accurate, the people who were inspired by God wrote the Bible. In other words, God is behind every word of it, and he inspired every word of it, but he did not dictate every word of it. Therefore we tend to forget that some of the knowledge in the Bible is limited by what man knew in that time period, not by what God knew.

The facts are that the Bible was written by about 40 different people over the course of 1500 years, but taken as a whole, it comes rom a single point of view. That in itself is stunning. The Bible contains portions written by Moses 1400 or so years before Jesus, and portions written by David 1000 years before Jesus, and portions written by people who actually knew Jesus, but all 66 books are of a piece that seem to fit together in exactly the same way they would if they had been written by a single author. There are themes that begin in Genesis, weave throughout the Bible, and are finally resolved in Revelations, as if a single author had been working on it all by himself.

Answer 11

flat earth society....


and if it was in the good book than it would be true.

arguably many people point out verses in the bible that insist the earth was round.