Message from @jakee528

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:40:24 UTC

Pull the Trigger @FrozenFish

FrozenFish

2018-09-15 04:40:49 UTC

Hold on gotta go fill it with water first I guess

Joe Cool

2018-09-15 04:43:16 UTC

brb

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:44:50 UTC

Does the Bible Say Earth is Flat or Round? Does it Contradict Science?

The Bible is often criticized as being “unscientific, outdated, and contradictory.” One of the arguments used is that the Bible states the Earth is flat. Is this true? Absolutely not.

If you ever talk to a skeptic, you will likely hear them rattle off arguments about why they don’t believe in God, and why they think the Bible is non-sense.

One of the arguments that often top the list is the good old argument, “The Bible says the Earth is flat, yet we now know it is spherical. Therefore, the Bible is non-sense written by a bunch of uneducated men.”

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:45:05 UTC

If you want a brief answer, it would be this: While the Bible authors make occasional poetic references which suggests a “flat Earth”, these instances are clearly written in a poetic or observational point of view. However, the Bible does quite clearly show a spherical Earth in many verses, as I will show below.

First, I just want to make a brief comment as to how ridiculous this claim is. What if the Bible said this: “Thus saith the Lord God: The Earth is flat. I created a flat Earth on a Turtles Back. I also made the sun rotate around the Earth. This is how I did it, and this is how it works.”

Then, we can all agree that the Bible was making a science statement, and we could easily disprove it, right? But is that what happens in the Bible? Nope. Instead the nit-pick verses out of context which are mostly poetic or metaphorical in nature to try and claim the authors thought the Earth was flat, therefore the Bible is bogus

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:45:24 UTC

Not so, as I will show. Once again, the Bible proves untouchable by skeptics. Everything can be logically, rationally, and reasonably explained.

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:45:36 UTC

http://www.revelation.co/2009/06/19/does-the-bible-say-earth-is-flat-or-round/

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:46:40 UTC

The first line of Isaiah 40:22 reads, “It is he [i.e. God] who sits above the circle of the earth.” Some have argued from this that Scripture teaches the earth to be a flat disc, rather than a globe. However, even if the original Hebrew is correctly understood to refer to a circle, this doesn’t necessarily indicate something flat; a sphere appears as a circle when seen from above—and indeed from whatever direction it is viewed. Moreover, there is good reason to believe that the word translated ‘circle’ might be better translated ‘sphere’.

Searcher

2018-09-15 04:47:40 UTC

https://www.openbible.info/topics/the_earth_is_a_sphere

FrozenFish

2018-09-15 04:52:37 UTC

Not even 10 yet

FrozenFish

2018-09-15 04:52:55 UTC

Night @Searcher