The Bible's Flat Earth

i think its the flat earth society who are making the jews look stupid by claiming that they believed the earth was flat by the interpretations they put to a handful of verses

and this is the dilema, One Hebrew word for generation is dohr, corresponding to the Aramaic dar.Dohr comes from a root verb meaning 'stack in a circle' or 'move around' and thus has a basic underlying meaning of 'circle.'
and the related word dur means 'ball.'So some languages have muliple words for the same thing and others have multiple meanings for the same wordAnd just because today 'circle' means a 2d object, does not mean that it was the same thing in ancient timesEG, what is a compass today? Most people know a compass to be a navigational instrumentbut in ancient times is was an instrument used by a carpenter or another craftsman to mark or inscribe a circle or an arc on wood or some other material. The only Biblical reference to a compass is at Isaiah 44:13 where it says 'with a compass he keeps tracing it out...'Is it right for the translators to apply 'compass' to this verse when the thing that we know as a compass is completely different to what is being used as a compass back then?
.Or perhaps we should do what is being done in regard to the word 'circle' and interpret that the ancients had a navigational device making them much more technologically advanced then we give them credit for? Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

how do get 'flat' from that verse???seriously, all it says is that the sun stood still.From an earthly perspective, it is the sun that appears to move across the sky... so the writers were simply explaining the things they saw from the perspective that they saw themits called Perspective

(Isaiah 38:8) 'Here I am making the shadow of the steps that had gone down on the steps [of the stairs] of A′haz by the sun retrace backward ten steps.’ And the sun gradually went back ten steps on the steps [of the stairs] that it had gone down.'translations can be murcky, What happened here, simply a sign was given to Ahaz by God. The sign appears to be the reversing of the shadow on the steps.says nothing about a flat earth a round earth a spherical earth...it simply says the shadow will reverse itself by 10 steps. A miracle by God.How is this scripture an evidence of a flat earth or of a writer confused about the motion of the planets???

No, its not always easy and there are still pieces of the puzzle that i am trying to figure out. In saying that though, there is a general rule that is the key to bible understanding....Context.You have to consider the immediate context of the scripture in question. Without it the scripture can mean anything.Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

and thats what a miracle issomething that goes contrary to nature...something that would normally be impossiblecertainly its impossible for any man to do, but can we say that it is impossible for God to do?

no, its more likely that as a group they didnt know the inner workings of the cosmos and the earth...but what they did know came from their GodSo we should look at the things that they did know Off topic material is hidden. Use peek if you want to read it but do NOT respond.While Aristotle taught that the earth rested on Solid transparent spheres, the bible writer said that the earth was suspended upon nothing.The bible says that the earth is Round/Circular, only a spherical object appears as a circle from every angle of view. A flat disk would more often appear as an ellipse, not a circle. No matter how you want to interpret it, a circular earth is accurate to a person on the ground. To a person in space, the earth appears as a circle from all angles. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.Edited by AdminNosy, : No reason given.Edited by AdminNosy, : No reason given.

Admittedly, chewing the cud is done by an animal with two stomachs in which the food is processed twice. While the rabbit does not have two stomachs it does process its food twiceit does this by eating its droppings...those droppings thus go thru the digestive tract twice thus a rabbit, in this sense, is a chewer of the cud.this is off topic

there would have been no man alive to witness thatby the time man came on the scene, the earth was a very different place.

because that is merely an interpretation a small group is putting on some versesIf i tried to tell you that the word 'immovable' means 'flat' you would laugh at me.They mean completely different things yet an 'immovable earth' is being translated as 'a flat earth'it doesnt make sense.

Again, it comes down to the context. Can you read one sentence in a paragraph and know the context?no, not likley.You would need to read a whole paragraph in the bible to understand the context and only then can you determine if it is metaphorical or allegorical or literal Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

it was a miracle. The shadow was given as a sign and the witnesses would have seen it as the sun staying put in the sky because from their perspective, its the sun that movesjust because the writer wrote that the sun stood still, does not have to mean that it literally stood still.it stood still by their perspective only...and the inpsired writer saw the same event and so recorded it as the way he saw it.About the book of Enoch...its not a bible book and its writings are quite different to what is found in the bible.

I would say that a miracle occurred by Gods power. Its not the only account of this happening. Joshua 10:13 says 'Accordingly the sun kept motionless, and the moon did stand still, until the nation could take vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the book of Ja′shar? And the sun kept standing still in the middle of the heavens and did not hasten to set for about a whole day.'the event would be a miracle, God must have stopped the motion of the planet ,perhaps the universe... however he did it, and the bible doesnt say how, from the perspective of earths inhabitants, the sun was motionless in both instances. are you saying that because i stick to my beliefs? I thought debate was about discussing varying perspectives...obviously i am wrong.So i'll save you the controversy and just say You're right and I am wrong.

im not a creationist so i dont adhere to the literal 6 days of creation.the hebrew word translated to 'day' in english represents a 'period of time'it cannot be a literal 24 hours for several reasons that have been discussed in other threads but is off topic here so i wont go into it.

he's not standing in a literal position this is a symbolic expression'the four corners of the earth,' and 'the four winds of the earth' (Re 7:1) cannot be taken to prove that the Hebrews understood the earth to be square.The number four is often used to denote that which is fully rounded out, as it were, just as we have four directions and sometimes employ the expressions 'to the ends of the earth,' 'to the four corners of the earth,' in the sense of embracing all the earth.All the things spoken of in REvelation such as the 4 riders of the Apocalypse (War, Pestilence, Death, Famine) for example, will happen earth wide. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.