Atheists, is this proof the Bible is scientifically accurate?

Question

Isaiah 40:22
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.'
The book of Isaiah was written somewhere between 740 B.C and 680 B.C. This is about 300 years before Aristotle suggested that the earth might be spherical. If the bible is scientifically inaccurate, how did it predict that the earth was round 300 years before science did?

Remember, Ian. The earth is ROUND. And the book of Isaiah pointed that out even before Aristotle and before the days of Columbus. Even in those days, people thought the earth was flat. If science taught that the earth was round back then, why do so many say it was flat back then? My point. The Bible said the earth was round YEARS before science did. Why?

LOL. A circle and a sphere are not the same thing. All you people are doing is proving ARISTOTLE wrong. He is the one who predicted it.

Answer 1

Of course, the unbelievers will deny this or make excuses, par for the course. Here are more:

Scientific Accuracies in the Bible
1. The spherical shape of the earth(Isaiah 40:22).
2. The earth is suspended in nothing (Job. 26:7).
3. The stars are innumerable (Gen. 15:5).
4. The existence of valleys in the seas (2 Sam. 22:16).
5. The existence of springs and fountains in the sea
(Gen. 7:11; 8:2; Prov. 8:28).
6. The existence of water paths(ocean currents) in the
seas (Psalm 8:8).
7. The water cycle (Job. 26:8; 36:27-28; 37:16;
38:25-27; Ps. 135:7; Ecc. 1:6-7).
8. The fact that all living things reproduce after their own
kind (Gen. 1:21; 6:19).
9. The nature of health, sanitation, and sickness
(Gen.17:9-14; Lev. 12-14).
10. The concept of entropy, that energy is running down
(Psalm 102:26).

Answer 2

first of all, the bible didn't come around until a few hundred years AFTER Jesus died...and that was in 33 CE (AD, for the christians)

Second, you can't prove that the bible is scientifically accurate... with the bible; you need to use something else. Nothing in the bible can be proven to be fact; therefore, you can't use it as evidence for anything.

Third, the book of Isaiah is part of the Old testament which the Jews started. Christians had nothing to do with it because christianity didn't exist yet; they stole excerpts from it when they rose to prominence. Therefore, if the book of Isaiah did suggest the earth was round before Aristotle, then the credit goes to the jews.

Fourth, All the symbols, stories, etc, you christians use were stolen from other religions. As a matter of fact, christians have yet to come up with anything original. That fish you people have on the back of your cars, along with most of your other symbols were taken from the pagans, the same religion that you people are so convinced involves the devil. I suggest you close your bible and double-check all the things you learned growing up because you don't have a clue.

Answer 3

So exactly where are you going to sit that you can see the whole thing like that. It only works if its flat. And the New Testament has Jesus and Satan on a mountain and says they can see every kingdom. Same problem.

See the thing is EVERYONE that read the thing said it said the Earth was flat until it was proven otherwise. Heck you can still find a few flat Earther's around. A circle is a circle and a sphere is a sphere. And it says it is a circle, not a ball, a globe, or a sphere.

And science lesson time. The Greeks knew it was round way before that. Heck they calculated how round it was in 400 BC and got the right answer. It was your religion that lost that knowledge.

Answer 4

A circle does not equal a sphere. And the earth isn't a sphere anyway, it is oblate.

Think about the circle of the earth in the Indian myth, where the circles rests upon the back of an elephant, then a turtle, etc.

Regardless, even if the writer meant a sphere, that means little. Perhaps they had good mathematicians who preceded the Greeks in determining the earth was round (it wasn't Aristotle, by the way).

And, if your claim is true, then God also apparently gave the Pagan Greeks the knowledge to discover it's shape as well.

In all honesty, this is a rather sad attempt at a convincing argument.

Answer 5

Isaiah 40:22 is talking the concentric circles view of the Earth.

Answer 6

Well a circle isn't round or spherical, didn't you learn that in grade 2 geometry? Here's how I learned how a circle was not a sphere in grade 2. A sphere is 3 dimensional and a circle is 2 dimensional.

The Bible didn't say the earth was round, it says it was a circle. It also says the earth is stationery in several verses and that the sun orbits around the earth. Why does your God deliberately distort facts, can he not describe his very own creation? It's pretty easy to figure out that the Bible wasn't inspired by God. It is just like any other Bronze Age book.

Answer 7

Isaiah says circle, and specifically circle, not sphere (and yes, the Jews did differentiate between the two).

It compares the earth to the floor of a tent--and a tent is alway's erected on the flattest ground available.

So no, it's not proof.

Answer 8

There are many things in the bible that are historically accurate, and there were people even in 680 B.C. that felt the world was round, granted it would have been a very limited number. Most of these people would have been Middle Eastern, Asian, and Nordic schoolars and seafarers. It was the catholic church that held steadfast in its belief the world was flat, and charged those who said other wise as heretics and had them tortured into submission or death. Even at the time of the greatest power of the church though, probably during and around the inquisition the church did not control even the larger percentage of the world, known or not.

Also your logic is flawed in the fact that I could easily say look at someone like Eadger Casey or better still Nostradamus, who lived in fear of the church for the later part of his life. Both these people are said to be "seers" but while you accept the fact that Isaiah, Elijah and various others from the bible are prophets, you would at the same time denounce this. I feel predictions, phrophecy and psychic vision fall into a category that is at best difficult to prove.

Further much of the bible has been altered in translation from its earliest arimaic, and other languages which in almost all cases changes aspects of what was intended by the author. It is readily seen in cases where things are translated from Hebrew, or Arabic to English. Also adding to this was the most popular and recognize Christian bible, the King James Version was almost exclusively picked by King James as to its content and also altered where he saw fit in some ways, bringing over some aspects of hell from the Holy Koran and other books.

While it is impossible and irresponsible for me to discredit the bible as a very important book both culturally and historically as it has proven in some cases to be very good at showing parts of history that were not proven to be true until the last 50-70 years. Though we also have to accept that the bible is taken mainly from stories handed down during the period in which the Jewish people were enslaved by Egypt and other society's of the day out of fear of losing their oral tradition and stories that made them the society which they were. So even in base these are altered and greatly influenced by the memory of the author.

In the end though it is my opinion as that I can not and would not discredit something that holds such a great level of respect from so many people. Though I will hold to my idea's also and state them when asked. I will not say the bible is completely in accurate or judge you for the view you hold as that is wrong, but to state my opinion and to be willing to give anothers equal wieght until disproven, or it becomes illogical ranting would also be wrong. So please take my opinion and be willing to look at it not as an attack but as a separate view of another person.

Answer 9

It's more proof that someone, long ago, imagined sitting above a "circle", which I'm pretty sure is a two-dimensional shape.

EDIT: Okay, poptart, here are some of the verses that were used to convict astronomers of heresy:

1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.”

Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”

Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...”

Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.”

Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...”

If you imagined a flat earth, you would look out on the horizon and see it even on about every side. Thus, it would be, a circle -- a pancake.

Answer 10

The bible talks about circle as a metaphor! The bible SPECIFICALLY mentions the corners of the earth. So if the Bible is correct, the circle thing MUST be a metaphor!