Do you christians really believe the earth is flat?

Question

Isaiah11:12 “And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.“

God will gather up the people of Judea "from the four corners of the earth." In the Bible's view, the earth is flat with four corners.

If you believe in the bible then you must believe the world is flat, you can't pick and choose what you like!

Answer 1

You can't have it both ways, if the bible is the word of god than you can't cherry pick. It is the word of god or it isn't the word of god, there is no grey area here.

Answer 2

What makes you think that only flat things have corners? The earth has a lot more than just 4 corners. Clearly, an idiom is being used here.

Isa 11:12, Literal Bible (strongs numbers in brackets)
And He will lift |5251| a banner |1471| for the nations, |0622| and will gather |5080| the outcasts of |3478| Israel. |5210| And those of dispersed |3063| Judah. |6908| And will turn aside |0702| from the four |3671| wings of |0776| the earth.

Odd, that you pick and choose to believe that only flat things have corners. :)

Jim

Answer 3

NO!

The word translated "corners," as in the phrase "the four corners of the earth", is the Hebrew word, KANAPH. Kanaph is translated in a variety of ways. However, it generally means extremity.

It is translated "borders" in Numbers 15:38. In Ezekiel 7:2 it is translated "four corners" and again in Isaiah 11:12 "four corners." Job 37:3 and 38:13 as "ends."

The Greek equivalent in Revelation 7:1 is gonia. The Greek meaning is perhaps more closely related to our modern divisions known as quadrants. Gonia literally means angles, or divisions. It is customary to divide a map into quadrants as shown by the four directions.

There are many ways in which the author could have said corner. Any of the following Hebrew words could have been used:

Pinoh is used in reference to the cornerstone.
Paioh means "a geometric corner"
Ziovyoh means "right angle" or "corner"
Krnouth refers to a projecting corner.
Paamouth - If the Lord wanted to convey the idea of a square, four-cornered earth, the Hebrew word paamouth could have been used. Paamouth means square.

Instead, the word selected was kanaph, conveying the idea of extremity.

Answer 4

The earth is round. "Four corners of the earth" was just a figure of speech. It was written in the time that people thought the world was flat. How else would the people of that era understand the meaning if thats all they knew about the earth?

Answer 5

gosh! cmone! the bible was written more than a thousand years ago! cmone, we're not retards!... its just trying to say from all over the earth or its probably just saying north, east, south, and west. and just to tell you, there are a lot of kind of christians, all beliving in different things. for example, there is this church that belives that jesus and god are the same poeple but we belive that they are 2 different ppl. and some ppl belive that adam did a bad thing eating the apple and that he sinned, but we belive that he sinned, but he did a good deed, or else he would never been casted out and we would never be born on this earth. so even if those retarded ppl belive that the earth is flat, it doesnt nescisarily mean that all christian belive the earth is flat. and plus thats the old testament. get it? good.

Answer 6

Of course the Earth is round, but when you consider the four primary directions, East, West, North, South, you can see that all of these have a point farthest from the perception of the viewer, and could also be referred to as "corners" in relation to the other directions.

I'm not a Christian, though. And the "four corners" phrase is still alive today.

Answer 7

The expression four corners of the earth is still used todate as an expression of North South East and West although we realize it is a semi round planet actually an elliptical globe of sorts .
In those days of old the earth was usually considered to be flat.
peace

Answer 8

You are misquoting in a huge way... so sorry to disappoint you...corners are referring to the directions, East, West, South, and North. Other translations use the word: "quarters"...quarters of a sphere...something round.

The bible refers to the earth as a sphere, and if you knew anything at ALL about history... it was the scholars of the bible in Christopher Columbus' time that referred to it as round, to combat the common theory at that time that the earth was flat.

The horizon appears to be going down...giving the rounded look... and, the bible refers to that as well.

So, I would research things from the bible you have deemed to be unworthy of your respect before you think of criticizing it. You just made yourself look rather hasty and silly.

Answer 9

Only flat earth society believes in a flat earth, some christians are not that stupid...stop generalizing. Plus, the bible never says anything about earth's shape...even the Isaiah 40:22 is purely metaphoric i.e. it talks about humans = grasshoppers, curtain = ??, and tent = home or space, therefore the word circle is also a metaphor. Anyways, the bible is full of metaphors so it doesn't really talks about the shape of our earth. But if Isaiah11:12 wasn't meant to be metaphoric then that would be different. I guess the earth is flat if based on a non-metaphoric point of view.

"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And it's inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." Isaiah 40:22

Answer 10

Actually Christians believed the earth was round when science said it was flat, because they knew Gods word. Christians knew about the fiery core of the earth before scientist did because they knew Gods word. When science proves evolution false ( That day is coming) Christians will have known it all along. Read your bible and you will know truth.

Answer 11

The four corners is speaking of the four directions, north, south, east and west, not literal "corners" of a flat earth.