[WildHorseCrash]

Isaiah 40:22

[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth...

The Earth, of course, is neither a circle nor a sphere. It is an irregular oblate spheroid. So even we mistranslate "circle" as "sphere," the passage is still factually wrong.

[Elsie]

It is an irregular oblate spheroid. So even we mistranslate "circle" as "sphere," the passage is still factually wrong.

Ahhh...

The Devil's in the details!

[nmh]

It depends on what translation or version you use. Plus there may not be a Greek word that precisely matches the word oblong. Clearly, the idea is there BEFORE most of mankind accepted it.

Surely you must admit that even the Bible NEVER claimed it was FLAT. Makes you wonder what they were reading when Galileo shocked them with the fact the earth was NOT flat.

[nmh]

Here's another passage for ya:


In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space—the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon.

Job 26:7

[7] He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

So true! No amount of nitpicking will change that either.

By 150 B.C., the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes had already measured the 25,000-mile circumference of the earth. The round shape of our planet was a conclusion easily drawn by watching ships disappear over the horizon and also by observing eclipse shadows, and we can assume that such information was well known to New Testament writers. Earth's spherical shape was, of course, also understood by Christopher Columbus.