do fundamentalist Christians believe the earth is flat?

Question

If you take the Bible as the 'literal' word of God, by the same token do you dispute the scientists' theory that the earth is round? Am curious.

Answer 1

The Bible doesn't say that the Earth is flat. Fundamentalists don't believe that the Earth is flat.

Answer 2

The bit related to the circle of the Earth capacity no longer something, as a circle isn't a sphere. They did certainly have faith the Earth replaced into flat. The verses above coach it, particularly those related to the pillars and shaking earth by capacity of its edges. The contradiction is, is it a circle, or is it a sq. with 4 corners? so some distance as sitting above the circle of the earth and seeing all, nicely, if it particularly is a flat circle, you're able to do this. If it particularly is a around sphere, you may no longer see all components at as quickly as, no remember from how some distance away or any attitude. One side will continually be hidden. it particularly is geometry. Or is math as unimportant as technology?

Answer 3

If the Bible told me the earth was flat...then yes, I would at least have to question the validity of the scientific view. However, I would not be questioning the scientists as they are mere men. I would instead be asking God to clarify things to me. It is not a matter of taking the Bible literally so much as it is taking my relationship with God seriously. I know that He is capable of creating everything in six days if he chose to do it that way. In fact, I know that He could have accomplished all things in a nano second if He had chosen to do so. Whether or not the six day creation is a fact or simply God's way of helping mankind to understand what He did..... I don't know. And to me, it does not matter. As God himself is timeless (has no beginning or end), six days, six billion years or six seconds would have all been the same to Him. It is only man that requires a time frame for anything...because our time is limited and our minds are not capable of understanding the concept of "no time".

For the believer who has a personal relationship with God, concentrating on the literal words of a book written about God by man is foolishness. There is no way that a man could possibly understand the vastness of what God did even if inspired by Him to write the words down for the benefit of someone else. It would have had to be written so man could understand the concepts.

A personal relationship with Him gives me all the knowledge of Him that I require to keep my relationship with Him strong. I won't call it faith..because faith is something that can not be proven...I call it knowledge because it is just that. I can not prove it to anyone else...but God has already proven Himself to me.

Answer 4

No, they just deny that the bible states that it is flat.
They like to quote the passage that calls the earth a circle conveniently forgetting that the writers of it had perfectly good words for balls or spheres that they could have used. They also ignore all the other places where the earth is described as having corners and foundations.

Answer 5

This is a common accusation that non-believers like to throw at those who believe in the Bible to attempt to identify them as ignorant. It's a "straw-man". Remember, it was SCIENTISTS who hundreds of years ago believed the earth was flat. There is nothing in the Bible that says this. So, no, Bible-believing Christians do not believe the earth is flat. Try again.

Answer 6

You know the whole conspiracy theory about humans never landing on the moon? That was started by fundamentalists who saw that the pictures from space showed a round earth.

The ones that believe the earth is round are not much better, because they think it is the never moving, center of the universe.

Answer 7

Not in the Bible, just the believer put the scientist whom gave the theory that the world is flat , house arrest.

Answer 8

Dear Friend,

No because the Bible says it is not flat!

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.

7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.

Circle, hangs it upon nothing, a more acurate translation from the Greek renders the word for cirle as Sphere!. And these were written how long ago!!

God Bless

Answer 9

As a Christian for over 37 yrs. I have always believed that the earth is round.

Answer 10

Explain then why the Bible tell us that the earth is a sphere hanging in the depths of the heavens?