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2007-11-19 11:57:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. We use the term "four corners" today. The Bible never taught the earth to be flat. Scientist taught that until they figured out that is was round. Then they had a hard time convincing the pope.
2007-11-19 12:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by Poor Richard 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have read these verses all of my life and all I have ever thought about was North, South, East and West as corners or positions. Even the winds come from these directions or corners. Where flat comes from is beyond me. If "flat" is in the Bible I can't find it. I've read the "circle of the earth" which sounds round to me.
No. The bible does not teach a flat earth.
2007-11-19 20:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to those verses it does, but like most of the bible, those verses have been translated numerous times over millinia, and a literal reading is silly, silly, silly.
the bible can teach anything from compassion and love to stoning adulterer's (which can be as broadly defined as looking with lust).
this is why any fundamentalist is silly, silly silly
2007-11-19 20:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good call, friend. Islam is no clearer an answer, though. The truth and the light is with science alone.
2007-11-19 20:01:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Bible is not a science or scientific book.
2007-11-19 20:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by Averell A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋