i'm looking for any quote in the bible which mentions the earth as a globle or a sphere if such a quote exists can you let me know the book, chapter and verse
thanks
2007-06-06 13:03:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thundercatt9 huh??? i never claimed the bible was scientific where you get that from????
2007-06-06 13:20:31 · update #1
Dusty Scribe mm pretty close but a circle can still be flat.
2007-06-06 13:22:06 · update #2
dust scribe ment to say a circle can be flat unlike a globe or Sphere. a circle dont seem close enough
2007-06-06 13:29:28 · update #3
earl why do i feel the need? well its was a silly drunkern pub bet that the bible said the world was flat i reckoned it said the world was a globe. yes i really do get into arguements like this in the pub. its a strange old life
2007-06-07 00:41:43 · update #4
"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." (Isaiah 40:22)
UPDATE: Okay, how about this in addition? It refers to the sun:
"It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat." (Psalm 19:6)
2007-06-06 13:07:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 0⤋
The closest I think is: "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. (From the NIV Bible, Isaiah 40:22)"
Job 26:7 (written 3500 years ago): "He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing." The Bible claimed that the earth freely floated in space here.
One has to remember, the Bible is a religious book, not a science book. It has a different purpose than a science book.
2007-06-06 20:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40:22
2007-06-06 20:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Passage Isaiah 40:22:
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.
"circle " of the earth whould mean round globe or sphere, in KJV
2007-06-06 20:10:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too was aware and intensely so of the Isaiah quote. It the S. Indian language of Tamil it is translated as the 'circle'........of the earth. Ofcourse it is as we see....a circle. Unless it is a globe how can we see a circle.
About the 'stretching' of the heavens.....doesn't this tie in with the expansion of universe after the Big bang theory? The universe is still expanding isn't it?
2007-06-06 22:34:23 · answer #5 · answered by straightener 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 4):22 He sits enthtoned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.
2007-06-06 20:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He that sitteth above the circle of the earth...
Isaiah 40 v 22
2007-06-06 20:15:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40:22:
‘It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers
2007-06-06 20:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaiah 40:20 - "there is One dwelling above the circle of the earth"
2007-06-06 20:08:30 · answer #9 · answered by missteph007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word globe or sphere does not occur in the Bible.
The reference you are looking for I believe is ISAIAH 40 :22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth . . . . .
2007-06-06 20:17:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first answer is right - according to the bible the earth is a circle (a two-dimensional shape), not a sphere.
2007-06-06 20:12:58 · answer #11 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋