Where does the Bible say the earth is round?

Question

Does the Bible also say the sun moves round the earth?

Answer 1

it says that the earth is flat and immovable

Answer 2

There are several mistakes with the answer voted best answer that you may want to know. Starting with Daniel 4.11 If you look at the context of the verse, you will see that it is a dream, to begin with. Not an actual tree. It's a symbol, it can be ridiculous. I think we have all had crazy dreams. Secondly, if you keep reading you will see that the tree had branches that stretched out across the earth because it says in Daniel 4.12 the beasts of the field had shadow under it. So maybe it wasn't even the base of the tree the whole earth was seeing, maybe it was branches. With a trunk stretching into heaven, surely the tree could have branches stretching across earth. Matthew 4.8 This verse has nothing to do with whether or not the earth is round! It says he took him to an exceedingly high mountain and showed him the kingdoms of the earth. If you look in Luke 4.5, where this story is told from a different person, you will see that it says: "And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time." In a moment of time. I think it's safe to say this could easily have been a vision and not the literal fleshy kingdoms. Isaiah 40.22 As GTX said, they didn't have the word 'sphere' then, this could EASILY have gotten lost in translation. There isn't a Job 38.44 However, Job 38.4-5 says "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?" In the King James Version, one of the most complicated, yet closest translated versions, it doesn't even use the word across. That idea was a stretch to begin with, now it's just completely invalid when using a translation older than the NIV. Job 38.13 ....What? Of course you can take hold of the ends of a ball. Just because the earth is round, doesn't mean it's limitless. It isn't like saying take hold of the ends of eternity. A ball has ends, they just aren't flat. And lastly, as I commented, Lost in translation. They are taking these verses completely out of context. If you read the context of Job 38.14, not 15 by the way, you will see that the LORD is describing how the sun changed the appearance of the earth, like a seal changed the clay. On the surface, it looks like they did a lot of research on this, probably why they were voted best answer. And the amount of verses is quite substantial - too bad quality usually out weighs quantity. When considering the verses that use the words "four corners of the earth" or "ends of the earth", you can also take Pangaea into account. Even though Jesus came after the great flood in Moses' day, none of us can say that people 2,000 years ago didn't still refer to the world as the four corners of the earth because before the earth came apart there were also four literal corners! No where in the Bible does it say the earth is flat or not flat. Apparently that didn't seem important. However, it does mention it being circular several times no matter what you believe about the interpretation.

Answer 3

Some Bible critics have claimed that Revelation 7:1 assumes a flat earth since the verse refers to angels standing at the "four corners" of the earth. 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. Without it, the intended message would be awkward at best and probably not understood clearly. [DD]

In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. [DD]

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."

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. [JSM]

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. [JSM]

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

The Greeks also drew meridians and parallels. They identified such areas as the poles, equator, and tropics. This spherical earth concept did not prevail; the Romans drew the earth as a flat disk with oceans around it. [JSM]

The round shape of our planet was a conclusion easily drawn by watching ships disappear over the horizon and also by observing eclipse shadows, and we can assume that such information was well known to New Testament writers. Earth's spherical shape was, of course, also understood by Christopher Columbus. [DD]

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. [JSM]

"When the Bible touches on scientific subjects, it is entirely accurate." [DD]

Answer 4

Are you looking at mans perspective, or God's? there are many descriptions of the rising and setting of the sun, the four corners of the Earth, etc, many of which are figures of speech. Jesus speaks of being ready for his return, and talks about when he will show up. In luke 17:34-36 talks about believers being taken away, one talks about men sleeping, one is taken, the other left. Two women at the mill, one taken the other left. Two men in the field, one taken, the other left. This is supposed to be a simultanious event, but what is described takes part at differant times of the day. What men would be in bed in the middle of the day? women grinding at the mill in the morning? Men in the field in the afternoon? It didnt make sense. No wonder his disciples looked at him like he was a weirdo. He knew the Earth was round (He created it), they didnt. These events all took part at differant times of the day. the Earth is round. Where it is daylight in one place, it is dark in another. also, as someone stated earlier "he hangs the Earth on nothing".
The concept of a flat Earth was NOT Biblical, It was the Scientific community of the day that said it was flat. It goes back to Egyptian times.
The Church of the middle ages listened to the scientific community of the day, and declared that truth. they should have stuck to their Bible. Astronomers of the day were rogues when they suggested the Earth revolved around the sun. It wasnt the church that condemned them, it was the SCIENTIFIC community of the day, because they bucked the system. and the established scientific community had the muscle of the church to back them up.
Recent studies indicate that we ARE at the approximate center of the universe.

Answer 5

I don't think the Bible says the earth is round. They used to think that there was something called the firmament which is like a big inverted bowl. They also thought the earth floats on water (it's in one of the ten commandments).

The Bible got many things wrong. Follow the good moral teachings of the Bible and ignore the bad ones, like Solomon telling people they should beat their children--though he had 600 wives and 300 concubines so maybe he had a lot of problems to deal with lol

Answer 6

It doesn't. Nor does it say the earth is flat or that the earth moves round the sun. What point are you trying to make?

Answer 7

Where in the bible does it say the world is flat,i dont remember seeing where it says the sun revolves around the earth either.
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Answer 8

Yes gee I wonder what point you're trying to make...hahaha
Wasn't Copernicus burnt for saying the earth was not the center of the universe?
It must have been in the bible.

Answer 9

Isaiah 40:22 states - " There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell, " I would say that circle of the earth indicates that it's round, wouldn't you?

It never says anything about the sun moving, it talks about the sun setting and rising in several scriptures. Judges talks about the sun going forth at Judges 5:31.

Answer 10

The Bible does not teach the earth is round anywhere - because IT IS NOT. Round would be a circle.

The earth is a SPHERE!!!

When will science and schools ever get it right!!

Answer 11

For those such as the person above me who have obviously flunked geometry:

CIRCLES ARE FLAT

The earth is not a circle it is a sphere or more accurately an oblate spheroid.

further

"This fool [Copernicus] wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." -- Martin Luther