In the Bible there is a distinction between the these two words?

Question

The Earth and the World.
1. Share on what the earth is and what the World is
2. What is the crucial distinction between the two.

Verse references to strenghten your answers are very welcome:)

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Answer 1

The earth is what God created - (Gen 1:1.)

The world can mean all the people of the world - "God so loved the world (John 3:16)

When we read of the "world" in the New Testament, we are reading the Greek word "cosmos." Cosmos most often refers to the inhabited earth and the people who live on the earth, which functions apart from God. Satan is the ruler of this "cosmos" (John 12:31; 16:11; 1 John 5:19). So, by the simple definition that the word "world" refers to a world system ruled by Satan

Answer 2

God uses the earth and the world in two different ways. He uses the word earth to describe the literal globe that we live on. Such as used in the beginning at Genesis 1:1
Hear are a list of scriptures you can read where Jehovah God uses the earth as the inhabitants for mankind.
Ps 37:29
Gen 1:28
Ps 24:1
Ps 115:16
Ec 1:4
Isa 14:12
Isa 45:18
Isa 60:2
Isa 65:17
Mt 5:52
2Pet 3:5
Yet when we see the word world being used
God is talking about the world of mankind or the sea of mankind and not the literal earth as in the following scriptures.
John 3:16
John 14:19
John 14:30
john 15:19
1Cor 4:9
Jas 4:4
2Pet 3:6
1Jon 5:19
Mt 25:34
Eph 8:23
Re 17:8 and so on.
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Answer 3

World can mean many things. Also you should really go back to the original Greek and Hebrew. Just to give you some examples.

World:

kosmos - ex 1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

Probably from the base of G2865; orderly arrangement, that is, decoration; by implication the world (in a wide or narrow sense, including its inhabitants, literally or figuratively [morally]): - adorning, world.

aiōn - ex 2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

From the same as G104; properly an age; by extension perpetuity (also past); by implication the world; specifically (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future): - age, course, eternal, (for) ever (-more), [n-]ever, (beginning of the, while the) world (began, without end). Compare G5550.


I suggest you download the free software E-sword and make sure you get KJV with Strongs and also Strongs and do a search on the 2 words.

Answer 4

I am not quite sure but I can tell you what I have read about paradise and the third heaven. The third heaven is talked about in the book, "Heaven is so Real," by Choo Thomas. The 3rd heaven is the Kingdom of God. Whereas Paradise is something else. Jesus told the thief that he would see him in Paradise that very day. Some scholar said that Paradise is the upper crusts of hell, because Jesus went to hell, but the upper part of hell isn't the fiery part. Now, I am unsure whether this is true although I had a lot of confidence in the author, but that seemed so strange and yet we know Jesus didn't go to heaven right away. He rose from the dead early Sunday morning. Outer darkness sounds like outer space rather than under the earth where hell is at, so again, I am not sure.

Answer 5

That's actually a good question. I haven't put together a study on the subject, but you can see an instance of where confusion may lie in

Acts 2:5 "Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven."
1Ki 10:24 "The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart."
Ac 17:6 "But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: "These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,"
Ac 19:35 "The city clerk quieted the crowd and said: "Men of Ephesus, doesn't all the world know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven?"

Here "world" is apparently referring to what they would consider at the time to be the "civilized world", or the Roman empire.

Another usage of "world' is the world system as in "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world——the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life——is not of the Father but is of the world." 1John 2:15,16 There we would commonly use the word "worldliness" today.

Another on of course is to confuse "land"="earth"="world" For example with regards to Noah's flood, it may have simply been referring to the land in which Noah (and the rest of Adam's descendants) lived, rather than to the globe.

Answer 6

the earth is the physical planet as in Genesis 1.
the world is the people, thoughts, the knowledge as in
Matthew 5:14.

Answer 7

Basically:

Earth---the Planet we live on--more specific, the Dirt that floats on Molten Magma.
It is like Islands that Float, around, on The Planet.

World: the Invisible Forces of Darkness (satan and his gang) who try to Control Things (people mostly) on the Earth through Systems and People.

Answer 8

The "world" has picked up a pejorative implication.

Both the earth and the world refer to our planet.

But "the world" often is used to refer to the human view of things, including "situational ethics", as opposed to God's firm eternal Holy standards!

"The earth" hasn't picked up that implication in the vernacular, up to this point.

Answer 9

Yes there is.
Earth is Tierra Firma
World is world age.
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The word "worlds" means world ages.
Peter tells us that there are 3 world ages..were in the 2nd now.

Answer 10

not really, it depends on the verse and the translators. both can be used to mean the worlds population or the world or even the middle east or the known world. to give you a better answer i'd need some verses from you