Why do Christians deny the truth of the bible. The bible says the world has edges and corners?

Question

There is no place in the bible that describe the earth as a sphere. And 3 is not closer to pi than 22/7. simple math.22/7=3.1428, pi=3.1416. To say 3 is closer to pi than 22/7 is just stupid.

I am searchiong the bible right now for the book of Eratosthenes. Is it possibly in numbers? Maybe in the new testament along with the book of Plato

If the eath is a sphere east and west are directions not place and have no distance apart. If one goes east and another goes west they meet around the back side of the planet, the bible got that one wrong too, thanks

Doesn't the bible say not to add or subtract anything, take your Koinomia source with its secret codes and go sit with the conspiracy theorists. Not only are you denying the bible but you blaspheme against it. A note added to the margin years later correcting a math error? Get a grip,mr boffo, yourself.

As to your comment about Pthygorias, yes he put out his theory in 600 BC. That is just about when they wrote the bible. To bad they failed to include his writings, maybe the couldn't speak greek then. Once again you translations are wao ff base, the bible never mentions the earth as a floating ball in space.

starjumper seems to be getting it.

And for those asking for chapter and verse, forget it, it is your book. I say just what is in it. Go read your book! Since you claim it to be true above everything else, you should know it inside out. You wouldnt want to go to hell because you missed a line would you.

Answer 1

You will have to include oceanographers in that statement. Four corners of the earth is a common phrase to denote the four quarters of the compass.

Funny how you ignore the Bible scriptures describing the earth as a sphere that hangs on nothing. Your question is pretty myopic.The Bible noted that the earth is a sphere and sits on "nothing" more than 2800 years ago!

Isaiah 40:22
It is [God] who sits* above the sphere** of the earth

Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

How far has our sins been removed from us when we ask God to forgive us? Note the psalm below would make it finite if the circle of the earth were flat. If it is spherical with a pole, then east and west are directional with no end.

Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Matthew 24:40-44 speaks of the gathering of the church that will take place in one single event. Notice that there are three different periods of time, evening, morning, afternoon. This is only possible with a spherical earth with inhabitants in every hemisphere.

The Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth.

Eratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate."

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*Hebrew "yashab" - meaning dwells or inhabits. dwells above the circle of the earth - ie inhabits the heavens.

**Hebrew "khoog" - meaning circle in 2 dimensions and sphere in 3 dimensions. Note: a flat disk wheel (owphan) or circle (cabiyb) are used elsewhere in scripture, but are not sphere (khoog).

Mr Boffo - Scripture please? It's easy to make sweeping statements. The reality is, the Bible rendering of Pi is 15 times more accurate that the 22/7 we learned in school. (see source)

Answer 2

Ever hear of symbolism?
Fact is that 732 BCE the bible states that the world is a 'circle' (in some translations sphere) and that it hangs from nothing. Isaiah 40:22
Shows some intelligence in a society that believed the earth to be flat.
The four corners of the earth is just symbolism. I hate it when some people can't understand language... (you wrote that to me yesterday in answer to my question and I laughed so hard I lost a contact lense! But so true! LOL)

Answer 3

Actually, the reference is to the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west. Similar terminology is often used today when we speak of the sun's rising and setting, even though the earth, not the sun, is doing the moving. Bible writers used the "language of appearance," just as people always have.

Answer 4

Hello, I would like a verse. But something tells me you cannot provide one, since there isn't one. To whoever said that the earth isn't supposed to move, I repeat what another person said. Anyone can take the bible out of context. The earth isn't supposed to be immovable, it is not supposed to leave our solar system. And it never has. You both need to do a little more in depth reading.

Answer 5

The earth also evolves through plate tectonics. I wonder why after god separated the lands with the seas, everything kept moving. It would seem pretty unstable to allow evolution of the planet, and what does that mean for poor adam and eve? Maybe creation is a myth?

Answer 6

Hey! Guess what? The earth has a big *** hole in it at the top. It's not covered by a crust completely, but rather the mantle is exposed for several hundred thousand kilometers. Funny how science has been telling us the opposite for years.

Answer 7

Hey, these days all Christians are heretics like Galileo. Imagine that guy... going against the scriptures and claiming the Earth wasn't the center of the universe. All those demons in science books... if you hold one to your ear at midnight, you can hear the demons inside laughing.

Answer 8

I belive there is an Old testament verse stating PI is "3"
That's as close to getting it right as the bible comes....

Answer 9

The Bible said the earth was round when everyone believed it was flat. If God is a multi-dimensional being and he's been there I would believe him first before I needed proof. It's about faith!

Answer 10

The Bible is not a science book. It's a book about God.