Some people believe that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat (or a flat disk). Both assumptions are incorrect. There are a number of Scriptures that indicate a spherical earth. These Scriptures were penned centuries before a spherical earth was confirmed.
Isaiah 40:22 states that God “sits above the circle of the earth.” While there is no Hebrew word for sphere, Khoog which is translated circle, circuit, compass is the closest. Because God is omnipresent, He looks down upon the earth from every direction. Therefore, from God’s heavenly perspective – looking down upon the earth from every location – the earth would appear round from every perspective ONLY if it were a sphere. If the earth were a flat circle for instance, then from most angles the earth would appear as an oval or even a straight-line (if perpendicular to it). Therefore, Isaiah 40:22 indicates a spherical earth.
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I also provided some additional verses here, as well.
A New Biblical & Scientific Refutation of a Flat Earth! The Bible Refutes a Flat Earth: 1. Sunset The Bible talks about the sun setting (Genesis 28:11) (Mark 1:32). This is clearly something we can observe without our own two eyes. The sun sets on the horizon line from our perspective or...
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Note: Keep reading through the thread and there is yet another good Scripture revealed, as well.
That is laughable! Is that the best you can do!
We have have discussed this before. Most everyone up to the 1600's were thinking the world was flat....and no one is saying, Hey look the scriptures say the world is a sphere! Those that believed the world was a sphere are fighting the church....Galileo Galilei It wasn’t just the Jews and Christians; it was a common belief of the time period. And you will see a lot of references to “ the ends of the world and ends of the earth” Means no thing to us we know the planet is round but, back then it was a fear…..of falling off the ends of the world….particularly for sailors.
According to these scriptures the earth has a fixed foundation….and it was set on pillars that could be shaken but the earth could not move and the sun and moon and stars moved around it….and if an object was tall enough it could be seen from the four corners of the earth because the earth was flat….that cannot happen with the earth being a sphere. So I will bury this topic in scriptures....
1st Chronicles 16:30
Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved….. (They believed that the Earth did not rotate or move….. everything… sun, moon, and stars, orbits the earth.)
Psalm 104:5
He set the
earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
1st Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s; on them he has set the world.
Daniel 4:11
The tree grew large and became strong And its height reached to the sky,
And it was visible to the end of the whole earth.
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from
the four quarters of the earth….
Revelation 7:1
After this I saw four angels standing at
the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree…..The earth has corners,
Job 28:24
For he looks to
the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Job 37:3
He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to
the ends of the earth……..the earth has ends?
Jeremiah 51:16
When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from
the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
John 17:24
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Proverbs 30:4
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all
the ends of the earth?
Psalm 19:4-6
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to
the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the
end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Psalm 67:7
God shall bless us; let all
the ends of the earth fear him!
Psalm 98:3
He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from
the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
1st Samuel 2:10
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge
the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”
Psalm 19:4
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to
the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
(The ends of the world…..the ends of the earth….the four corners!! This was a big concern with sailors….that they would fall off the end of the world.)
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth,
and the windows of the heavens were opened……(windows in the filament?)
Genesis 7:2
The fountains of the deep and the
windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
Isaiah 24:18
He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare.
For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Proverbs 8:29
And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Psalms 75:3
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is
I who keep steady its pillars.…(the earth set on pillars?)
Job 9:6
Who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises……(there is a place where the sun rises?)
Habukkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
Joshua 10:12-13
At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel
, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?
The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day……
It would be that the earth stopped rotating not the sun and moon stopping.
Now considering all that the scriptures say about this....no one can be blamed for thinking the scriptures describe a flat earth.
