2007-08-01 05:39:46 · 13 answers · asked by Moonlit Hemlock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here's a good rundown of the arguments for a Flat Earth in the bible:
http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/Flat_Earth.htm
2007-08-01 05:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not Christian, but I do believe that, even if it seems the Bible is implying the world is flat, I believe many people just want to believe that so they can say "Ooh, look, the Bible says the Earth is flat!" There is probably some logic to it. If it says "the four corners of the Earth" or whatever, it could possibly mean four distinct locations or something. Bible-haters want to believe the worst about it they can, so they try to claim that it says the Earth is flat. And I'm not even Christian. But my religion does tell me to question other religions as well as my own and be tolerant of them. But I'm not ignorant enough to accept the lies of the ignorant.
2007-08-01 12:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Omer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For all people on Earth to see God in the sky during revelations it would need to be flat, so it implies that the Earth is flat. However, it doesn't actually come out and say it anywhere.
2007-08-01 12:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Job describes the earth as taking form like a seal under a stamp and says that the earth is a circle (instead of sphere). It also mentions that various objects were so high that the entire earth could see it.
2007-08-01 12:43:25 · answer #4 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not to my knowledge, but there is a verse that talks about "the circle of the Earth" which would of course indicate it is round. I've heard that verse is one reason Christopher Columbus was sure the Earth was round but I don't know if that is true or not.
2007-08-01 12:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by politicallyincorrect 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes flat and on columns and 4 corners of the world
yeah the bible says a lot of nonsense
2007-08-01 12:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by ~I wish you could smile~ 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many. Just a couple:
Mat 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him [...]
2007-08-01 12:43:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Kind of:
Isaiah 11:12
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"
I Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the "pillars of the earth" are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
2007-08-01 12:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by JerseyRick 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
No it doesn't say anywhere direct out "the Earth is flat".
2007-08-01 12:47:33 · answer #9 · answered by Animal Girl 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As far as I know......no.....none.
Genesis talks about the Holy Spirit of God going over the "surface" of the earth.........but that doesn't make it flat.
Even a basketball has a surface
2007-08-01 12:42:03 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋