1. A firm layer divided the waters so that a massive body of liquid water was above the stars.
2. The 7 days of creations were in 24 hour periods, so the earth's age is in thousands of years.
I am not sure if the Bible actually teaches this one, since the sun was made on the fourth day or so, after the earth was already made.
3. The Earth is flat.
4. Geocentricism: The earth does not move, whereas the sun does not stand still. In other words, the earth does not go around the sun.
1 Chronicles 16:30
tremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.
Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Personally, based on the theory of relativity, I think that one can posit a model whereby the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun goes around the earth. The model just looks a bit more unwieldy than a solar system model.
Here is an example of a geocentric model. The planets are forced into awkward "epicycles".
5. God made the first man Adam directly out of clay or dust, instead of mankind's development passing through evolutionary stages such as more primitive classes of animals.
6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. ... 14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;
2. The 7 days of creations were in 24 hour periods, so the earth's age is in thousands of years.
I am not sure if the Bible actually teaches this one, since the sun was made on the fourth day or so, after the earth was already made.
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
3. The Earth is flat.
The earth's circle
A circle (hug) is flat, a ball(dur) is round. eg. Isaiah 22:18 uses the word ball (dur).
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle (hug) of the earth,
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass (hug) upon the face of the depth:
The earth's ends
Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:33 He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth
Isaiah 43:6 I'll say to the north, 'Give them up'! and to the south, 'Don't keep them back!' Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth
Jeremiah 51:16 He brings up the mist from the ends of the earth
The East and the West at the opposite ends of the earth
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our offences from us.
Seeing all the earth's land from a single point in space:
Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Daniel 4:10-11 [The king] saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds.
Matthew 4:8 “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.”
The earth's corners
One explanation has been that "corners" is a designation for directions.
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
The earth's foundations
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof
1 Samuel 2:8 for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
2 Samuel 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered
Psalm 104:5 Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.
The earth's stretching
Something that is stretched out is flat.
Psalm 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Stretching a line across the eartth, rather than around it
Job 38:44 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
The earth's stretching over nothing
Something that is suspended over nothing would have an underside.
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing [beliymah].
A circle (hug) is flat, a ball(dur) is round. eg. Isaiah 22:18 uses the word ball (dur).
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle (hug) of the earth,
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass (hug) upon the face of the depth:
The earth's ends
Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:33 He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth
Isaiah 43:6 I'll say to the north, 'Give them up'! and to the south, 'Don't keep them back!' Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth
Jeremiah 51:16 He brings up the mist from the ends of the earth
The East and the West at the opposite ends of the earth
Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our offences from us.
Seeing all the earth's land from a single point in space:
Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Daniel 4:10-11 [The king] saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds.
Matthew 4:8 “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.”
The earth's corners
One explanation has been that "corners" is a designation for directions.
Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
The earth's foundations
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof
1 Samuel 2:8 for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
2 Samuel 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered
Psalm 104:5 Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.
The earth's stretching
Something that is stretched out is flat.
Psalm 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Stretching a line across the eartth, rather than around it
Job 38:44 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
The earth's stretching over nothing
Something that is suspended over nothing would have an underside.
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing [beliymah].
4. Geocentricism: The earth does not move, whereas the sun does not stand still. In other words, the earth does not go around the sun.
1 Chronicles 16:30
tremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.
Psalms 93:1
The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Personally, based on the theory of relativity, I think that one can posit a model whereby the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun goes around the earth. The model just looks a bit more unwieldy than a solar system model.
Here is an example of a geocentric model. The planets are forced into awkward "epicycles".
5. God made the first man Adam directly out of clay or dust, instead of mankind's development passing through evolutionary stages such as more primitive classes of animals.
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