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So we're really grasshoppers that live in a tent. And the earth is flat. That's one big tent.Isaiah 40:22
"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."
But it will require a few funerals to take place.
Isaiah 40:22
"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."
While we're at it, here is a more accurate view of the earth
But why?
But why?
Apart from New Zealand this is just incorrect. Our major trade neighbours are below usA valuable map of Australia shows it front and center with it's trade neighbors left and right.
It's perfectly clear that if one travels in the same direction continuously and ends up back where they started proves that the Earth is round. Long before we had pictures of the earth from space men of understanding KNEW that the Earth was spherical.
I fell off the Northeast corner of the earth one time. Came to a screeching halt in Germany. And a few months later I fell off again and landed in Kansas.
Does the bible teach a flat earth? After studying this topic I've personally come to the conclusion that yes , the bible does teach a flat, enclosed, geocentric earth. Instead of me posting all the bible verses pro-flat earth, I would like to hear the verses against the flat earth. Or even evidence outside from the bible.
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. (Isaiah 40:22 [NIV])
The scriptures teach the earth is round, hence,
But not a sphere. The word used here means a circle, a flat circle; there is a word in Hebrew that means something like "ball", but that isn't used.
Those in the ancient near east did view the world as flat, like a disk.
I'd say there are several ways we can respond to this:
1) The ancient near eastern cosmology must be upheld as factually true, simply because it's how the ancient writers of the Bible understood their world from their limited point of view. That leads us to flat earthism.
2) Obviously the Bible can't be trusted, and therefore all its statements are suspect. This leads us to faithlessness.
3) The cosmological paradigm of those ancient people isn't the point, and it doesn't add or take anything away from the point of what they wrote about God, God's promises, God's interaction with Israel and humanity in history, and how this points us ultimately to Jesus Christ and our salvation in Him. The point of Scripture isn't to give us facts about how the natural world operates, the point of Scripture is to point us to Christ and our hope in Him.
I vote on 3.
-CryptoLutheran
I take it you failed geometry, but a sphere is also a circle, as there are two dimensional circles and three dimensional circles, such as spheres. All celestial bodies that exist in the void are spherical, including the moon, sun, stars... So why would the earth be any exception? Don't you think that if the earth were flat we would've discovered its edges by now?
I wasn't talking about the English word circle. I'm talking about the Hebrew word חוּג which does not mean sphere, it can be translated as "circle", "circuit", "compass" etc; because it is a 2 dimensional shape.
In that case, why have I never seen the translation ‘disc’, or anything else that would make it clearer that it would have to be flat? Instead, I often see ‘circle’ (which allows for three dimensions), and sometimes even ‘dome’ and ‘globe’.
"Circle" would be a perfectly fine translation, but "globe" wouldn't. Such a translation would demonstrate a particular bias on the part of the translators who possibly might have an invested interest in trying to maintain that the ancient Israelites had a post-classical view of the earth, when they didn't and wouldn't have.
-CryptoLutheran
Yeah... I guess I tend to favour the translators over a random guy on the Internet...
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