Replies

Your source, when it discusses Isaiah 40:22, truncates the end of the verse " ...that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in". This hardly adds to its credibility. Why did he omit that? Of course, because it contradicts his argument. So much for intellectual honesty.

Once again; if the heavens are as a tent, how do you pitch a tent on a sphere? If the heavens are as a curtain, how do you put curtains round a sphere so they look the same everywhere on the sphere?

The only logical explanation is that Isaiah meant to write exactly what he wrote; that the earth looks like a flat disk, with the heavens as a curtain or tent around it. That's quite an evocative picture - if you've ever walked in the desert at night, it describes exactly the feeling you get - and since all of Isaiah is a description of a vision, you can even retain biblical literalism and read it as it was written. What you cannot do is claim this means the Bible said the earth was spherical.

And you can't claim that round does not mean spherical. I can picture the heavens like a tent overhead. Isaiah wasn't given a scientific definition here, just what it looked like. If you have to, stick the tent poles in the North and South pole and along the equator. I don't care what you can do, but I can conceptualize it. He is using poetic and not scientific language to describe his concept. He doesn't say the earth stretches out like a piece of paper. He says it is a circle. A circle can be 2 or 3 dimensional as can a square.

Regardless, the point still stands that Christians have not been the ones to postulate a flat earth. You may find individual examples of people identifying themselves as Christians who have done so, but they are quite few and far between. The flat-earth tag was put upon us in the 1800s and is a LIE and a SLUR! To put it in a context you may understand, it would be like saying that Republicans believe that abortion is just fine because Arnold Schwarzeneggar said so and he's a Republican. It is an inductive fallacy in that one renegade Republican believes that way so the statement "Republicans don't believe in abortion" is false. The latter may be a blanket statement, but it is far closer to the truth than to say Republicans are pro-abortion. Likewise, when you make the claim that Christians are flat earthers, you commit the same error. It isn't true, and if you study the subject you'll find it is flat out false.