So let me get this straight if we are to believe the first chapter of the book of genesis as factually and scientifically true ...then we also have to believe the earth is flat because that is after all what chapter one of the book of genisis describes.
I don’ t see the flat earth.In the first chapter there is a seperation of night and day and the land from the seas.
Butthe essense of Genesis 1:1 is that there is a CREATOR and that Creator is God. And He created out of the void something of majesty to behold. Freegards
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Genesis 1.2 says that the earth was “without form,” so it doesn’t specify a shape.
How do you get that from Gen 1? Have you read it?
May I suggest you read Genesis again more carefully, and perhaps a better translation. Genesis does not teach that the earth is flat!
Isaih 40 :21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
The Hebrew word for circle means sphere, globe or ball. The Douay Reims Bible uses the term “globe”!
So much for your “flat earth” version of the Bible!
Where you getting that “flat earth” idea?
You introduced new data. God was not teaching science in Genesis 1-2. God was stating all that we observe in this world He created. God is the potter and we are the clay. Who shall contend with Him?
And no, Genesis chapter one does not state the earth is flat.