So are you saying that a sphere does not have the shape of a circle???
No a sphere has the shape of a sphere.
Just because the word circle is used instead of sphere does not denote the meaning disc.
Arach is really the guy for this but I believe he's posted that the hebrew had a word for "ball" at the time of the writing of genesis. If they knew that the earth was a sphere why didn't they use the word for ball? why use a word that best describes a 2D object when they have one that is more appropriate. And also as
anglagard said, the Earth isn't a sphere it's an oblate spheriod, a little flatter on top and little fatter at the middle than a perfect sphere.
Edited by DrJones*, : No reason given.
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