[aNYCguy]

While many primitive men thought the world was flat - this assessment is not found in Scripture.

Double sigh.

"[T]he devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" (Matthew 4:1-12)

Even an infinitely tall mountain would not allow one to see both sides of a sphere simultaneously.

"The earth takes shape like clay under a seal." (Job 38:14)

You don't stamp clay out into a sphere with a seal. You stamp it into a flat relief.

"To whom then will ye liken God? ....It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth (Isaiah 40:18-23)

Circles are two-dimensional objects. The bible is a flat-earth book. The sooner you accept that the bible is not a natural history textbook, the sooner you'll be able to begin truly appreciating creation.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

And you prove the Truth of Scripture by not being able to comprehend the metaphors that are obviously being used (regarding the circle and the clay). To read into the Matthew 4 passage an endorsement of the teaching that the Earth is flat is to miss the entire point. There is a phrase - straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. Methinks this is what are you doing in trying to prove that the Bible makes claims that it does not.

When you die, you will know beyond a doubt that God's Word is true and man's vain imagination is vastly over rated and faulty. But it will be too late at that point. But you no doubt have read all about the judgment throne - it's in the Book!

[Virginia-American]

[RE: the Bible being implicitly flat-Earthish]

The Israelites were not seafarers, unlike their cousins the Phoenicians.

Sailors **knew** the sphericity of the earth from watching ships disappear over the horizon, the hull going first, the top of the mast last.


I don't know what the Babylonians thought on the subject.