Do We Live On A Flat Earth?!?
As I read the Bible I saw a few references of a flat earth, but every person in Christian chat rooms say I'm nuts. What do you think?
Proverbs 8:27- When he prepared the heavens, I was there, When he drew a circle on the face of the deep.
Isaiah 40:22- It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And it's inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
NOTE: Circles are two dimentional objects. Some say that the ancient Hebrews didn't have a word for "sphere", but there was a word for ball. "Ball" would be a much better descriptive word for the shape of the earth than "circle".
Job 11:9- Their measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea.
As anyone who has taken a geometry class knows, spheres, or balls, have no length... but the length of a two dimentional circle is called a diameter.
Job 28:24- For He looks to the ends of the earth, and see under the whole heavens,
Job 37:3- He sends it forth under the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth
Job 38:13- That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
Deuteronomy 13:7- "of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:49- "The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand.
Deuteronomy 28:64- "Then the Lord will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods which neither you nor your fathers have known- wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 33:17- His glory is like a first born bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; together with them He shall push the people to the ends of the earth they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Menasseh
NOTE: As you know, a ball has no ends, but a plate does. Most people say that "the ends of the earth" is just an expression that shouldn't be taken literally... but the saying originated in the days when people thought the earth was flat. In 1492 Columbus sailed what is now America in an attempt to find a way to reach the Indies by circling the world, the first feet that could disprove the theory of falling off the earth, which was the worldwide truth in those days.
other mentions of the ends of the earth:
Psalms 2:8
Psalms 19:4
Psalms 22:27
Psalms 33:13
Psalms 33:14
Psalms 48:10
Psalms 59:13
Psalms 61:2
Psalms 65:5
Psalms 72:8