Which book of the Bible said that the earth was a sphere, thousands of years before modern science discovered the fact?
"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."
2007-06-30 12:53:58 · 16 answers · asked by Diana 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, it was Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in..."
And that was while non Jews were still members of the Flat World Society.
God proves Jesus as the Messiah in a Bible code at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm
Blessings, Balaam
2007-06-30 13:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
People in those days went to the tiolet in the water, then retrieved buckets of water to drink or cook with. This was a new idea in sanitary practice.
the nations around them didn't do it and fell victum to all sorts of diseases.
(Deuteronomy 23:12-13) 12Â And a private place should be at your service outside the camp, and you must go out there. 13Â And a peg should be at your service along with your implements, and it must occur that when you squat outside, you must also dig a hole with it and turn and cover your excrement.
(Isaiah 40:22) 22Â 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,
Not only did they believe that the earth was flat but knew nothing about apmosphere, which we know now how this apmosphere protects us like a bubble.
(Job 26:7) Â 7Â He is stretching out the north over the empty place, Hanging the earth upon nothing;
They had all kinds of stories about what the earth was riding on from elephants to Charles Atless, to turtles backs.
2007-06-30 19:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by cloud 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
A circle isn't a sphere, and that quote is sometimes used to show that the writers of the Bible thought the Earth was flat.
Here's one example: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm
That just was the first page that came up when I typed "flat earth Bible" in a search box. There were thousands of others.
I'm not saying you couldn't interpret your quote the way you have, but many people don't.
2007-06-30 20:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Insanity 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Give it a rest. I see the word 'circle'. It was commonly supposed in those days that the world was a disk, centered on Jerusalem. There are dozens of Mappa Mundi from the time showing it.
And the idea that the 'heavens' were shaped like a 'curtain' - i.e. a flat layer hanging over the earth - is also common, and couldn't be further from the truth.
CD
2007-06-30 19:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
God twice stated pi = 3 in His Bible. That is 4.5% too small. The Earth *cannot* be a biblical sphere. The God who honchoed 10 simultaneous elliptic-hyperbolic differential equations to construct gravitation was miraculoulsy incapable of disclosing numerologically elegant pi = 355/113, accurate to 0.085 parts-per-million.
Test of faith!
BTW, your passage describes a flat disk.
2007-06-30 20:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Job, or Isaiah or Ezekial. I don't have my exhaustive with me.
Also in one of these books, the earths turns like the seal to the Kings ring. So the inhabitants stand on it.
2007-06-30 19:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
With or without the Book, if one understand the spirit one sees the reason why the world is spherical in shape.
2007-06-30 20:07:30 · answer #7 · answered by Frontal Lobe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh great, another one of those oh-so-sincere "questions" from Diana.
None of them. The Bible still implies a flat earth (Is 11:12, Mt 4:8). If anything, that quote from Is 40:22 describes the earth as resembling more of a pancake than a sphere.
If it would be THAT detrimental to your faith to know that the people who wrote the Bible believed the earth was flat at the time (as most did), it sounds like you're not all that sure of yourself and have to post "questions" to get some support.
2007-06-30 19:56:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
A circle isn't a sphere. You also can't see a whole sphere sitting in one place. That verse clearly says it was a flat circle. And that was EXACTLY how everyone read it before science said otherwise.
2007-06-30 19:58:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
I think that's metaphorical. People reading the bible thought the earth was flat for thousands of years.
2007-06-30 19:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋