@chico,
chico;23418 wrote:1. Isa 40.22 'It is He who sits above the circle of the earth...'
In Science, the Earth's true shape is 'OBLATE SPHEROID'. Oblate refers to its slightly oblong appearance. Spheroid means tha it is almost sphere but not quite. The Earth's shape is only very slightly oblate according to science. The diameter from the North Pole to the South Pole is approx 12,714 km. The equatorial diameter is approx 12,756 km. This is not a big difference, but it does not make the Earth not quite a sphere. But how can God explain that to Isaiah 40.22, to His people? Who will understand?
2. That verses were used by Catholics not by the true church...
3. Psalm 93.1 'the Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength, yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved..'
This text does not mean that the earth is not rotating to its axis.
4. Isa 13.10 'for the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their lights; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light...'
When the sun will be dark then the moon will not shed light either. Self explanatory because the moon get its light from the sun so when the sun is dark the moon will also be dark...
5. Missing dots in the Bible will not affect the faith of the believers.
6. Jos 10.12-14 ''then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, 'Sun stand thou still in Gibeon and thou moon in the valley of Aijalon', and the sun stood still and moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies...'
Do you want me to explain this text to you ? It is very self explanatory.... Babies can understand this text....
2. Proofs that the bible says the Earth is FLAT:
Shake the Earth by Its Edges
"take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it (Job 38:12-13)
How could the earth be held by its "edges"? A sphere has no edges. Would the Job author have spoken of "edges" of the earth if he had known the earth was a sphere? Which makes more sense? The author imagined grabbing and shaking by the edges a flat earth, or the author imagined grabbing the ball of the earth by "edges" which don't exist? Before you answer, consider what else the same author had to say about how the earth is formed:
Stamp Out the Earth Like Clay under A Seal
Clay when stamped with a seal is not rounded into a ball, but flattened, like the clay seal (ca. 3300-3000 BCE) below found in Israel in 1994.1 In the verse below, readers will see that the Job author believes that the earth was stamped out in the manner of clay flattened with a seal:
"The earth takes shape like clay under a seal." (Job 38:14)
This is the same author who spoke of grabbing the earth by its "edges." If the Job author had known the earth was round, would he have referred to edges which don't exist, and would he have compared it to clay seals, which are pressed flat?
Whole Earth Can Be Seen from A Tall Mountain
Other evidence that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat is found in the following passages. The first is in Matthew:
"[T]he devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them"
(Matthew 4:1-12)
Certainly, if the earth were flat, standing atop "an exceedingly high mountain" would allow Jesus to see the whole earth, but there is no mountain tall enough to allow him to see the other side of a spherical earth. At most, one hemisphere would be seen, but not the other.
Or a Tall-Enough Tree
The other passage is in Daniel:
The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. (Daniel 4:10-11)
The "whole" earth? No matter how tall the tree was, even if it was only a dream, it would not have been visible from the other side of the earth.
