Plz serious answers only. But really, I wouldn't know a single verse saying or insinuating that the earth is flat!!
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There is a wonderful website I am attaching much of the contents.  Remember this is why Gallileo went on trial.  Columbus was almost denied money because the bible was of course correct.  Columbus was able to find a passage in the Apocrypha that says the Earth is a sphere and that is why he went to the New World.  This includes flatness, geocentrism, solar movement, the blue stuff above us (the ceiling often translated as the firmament literally the arched vault(as in object like the Romans built) in Hebrew), Earth stability and so on.  The shape of the Earth is about 1/5th of the way down.\n\nThe mobility of the sun\nThe most important biblical quote supporting a geocentric universe can be found in the Book of Joshua. This will be used as the starting point for our scriptural cosmology.\n\nJoshua 10:12-13\nThen spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.\n\nThe miracle of Joshua appears again as a reference in The Book of Habakkuk.\n\nHabakkuk 3:11\nThe sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.\n\nThe evidence in support of a geocentric model is overwhelming here. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. He did not order the earth to cease rotating nor did he qualify his statement with the divine knowledge that the sun was merely made to appear stationary. The sun was commanded to stand still because it is the sun that moves. Descriptions of its motion can be rather poetic.\n\nPsalms 19:4-6\nyet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs his course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.\n\nEcclesiastes 1:5\nThe sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.\n\nThe stability of the earth\nOn the other side of the geocentric coin, if the sun moves then the earth must not move. There are a few passages which more-or-less forbid the motion of the earth.\n\n1 Chronicles 16:30\ntremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved.\n\nPsalms 93:1\nThe Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved.\n\nPsalms 96:10\nSay among the nations, "The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."\n\nIn addition, the notion of an earth with a "foundation" is quite common. This leads one to conclude that the earth is quite stable.\n\n2 Samuel 22:16\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.\n\nPsalms 18:15\nThen the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.\n\nPsalms 102:25\nOf old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.\n\nProverbs 8:27-29\nWhen he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,\n\nIsaiah 48:13\nMy hand laid out the foundation of the earth, and my right hand s
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This answer was the most funny:\n\n"The whole Bible is the truth. Science is not always right you know. Ancient scientist once believed that the earth was flat! I think we have come a long way! :) "\n\nSo according to her, progress is going back to stone age thinking.\n\nSkygod make world in 7 day. Me made of dirt. You made of me rib. Whoowhooo. Me want banana.
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Qur’an says that Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet. This gives an indication that the earth is flat. Does this not contradict established modern science? \n\nAnswer\n\n1.    Earth made as a carpet\nThe question refers to a verse from the Qur’an in Surah Nuh:\n\n"And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out)." \n[Al-Qur’an 71:19]\n\nBut the sentence in the above verse is not complete. It continues in the next verse, explaining the previous verse. It says:\n\n"That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads."\n[Al-Qur’an 71:20]\n\nA similar message is repeated in Surah TaHa:\n\n"He Who has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out; has enabled you to go about therein by roads (and channels)...."\n[Al-Qur’an 20:53]\n\nThe surface of the earth i.e. earth’s crust is less than 30 miles in thickness and is very thin as compared to the radius of the earth which is about 3750 miles. The deeper layers of the earth are very hot, fluid and hostile to any form of life. The earth’s crust is a solidified shell on which we can live. The Qur’an rightly refers to it like a carpet spread out, so that we can travel along its roads and paths. \n\n2.    Carpet can also be spread on other than an absolute flat surface\nNot a single verse of the Qur’an says that the earth is flat. The Qur’an only compares the earth’s crust with a carpet. Some people seem to think that carpet can only be put on an absolute flat surface. It is possible to spread a carpet on a large sphere such as the earth. It can easily be demonstrated by taking a huge model of the earth’s globe covering it with a carpet.\n\nCarpet is generally put on a surface, which is not very comfortable to walk on. The Qur’an describes the earth crust as a carpet, without which human beings would not be able to survive because of the hot, fluid and hostile environment beneath it. The Qur’an is thus not only logical, it is mentioning a scientific fact that was discovered by geologists centuries later.\n\n3.    Earth has been spread out \nSimilarly, the Qur’an says in several verses that the earth has been spread out.\n\n"And We have spread out the (spacious) earth: how excellently We do spread out!"\n[Al-Qur’an 51:48]\n\nSimilarly the Qur’an also mentions in several other verses that the earth is an expanse:\n\n"Have We not made the earth as a wide expanse"\n"And the mountains as pegs?"\n[Al-Qur’an 78:6-7]\n\nNone of these verses of the Qur’an contain even the slightest implication that the earth is flat. It only indicates that the earth is spacious and the reason for this spaciousness of the earth is mentioned. The Glorious Qur’an says:\n\n"O My servants who believe! truly. spacious is My Earth: therefore serve ye Me –(And Me alone)!"\n[Al-Qur’an 29:56]\n\nTherefore none can give the excuse, that he could not do good and was forced to do evil because of the surroundings and circumstances.\n\n4.     Earth is geospherical in shape\nThe Qur’an mentions the actual shape of the earth in the following verse:\n\n"And we have made the earth egg shaped".\n[Al-Qur’an 79:30]\n\nThe Arabic word Dahaha means egg shaped. It also means an expanse. Dahaha is derived from Duhiya which specifically refers to the egg of an ostrich which is geospherical in shape, exactly like the shape of the earth.\n\nThus the Qur’an and modern established science are in perfect harmony.
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Humans seem to like this stuff...\n\nAmazingly, the below quote is from an Assyrian tablet that is 4,800 years old, older than any part of the bible:\n\n"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common."\n\nThat was written in 2,800 BCE.  It does appear there is nothing new under the sun.\n\nCheck out the site below for even more "End Times" that have come and gone.
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I dont know, perhaps but you would have to talk to the person who wrote said verse to find out what they were talking about.
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The Bible noted that the earth is a sphere and sits on "nothing" more than 2800 years ago. So Jesus did not have to restate the facts. Jesus did note that the Rapture would happen at the speed of light and that it would happen at the same time. Matthew 24:40-44 speak of the gathering of the church that will take place in one single event. Notice that there are three differnet periods of time, evening, morning, afternoon. This is only possible with a sperical earth with inhabitants in every hemisphere.\n\nIsaiah 40:22\nIt is [God] who sits* above the sphere** of the earth\n\nJob 26:7\nHe stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.\n\nHow far has our sins been removed from us when we ask God to forgive us? Note the psalm below would make it finite if the circle of the earth were flat. If it is sperical with a pole, then east and west are directional with no end.\n\nPsalm 103:12\nAs far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.\n\nThe Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth.\n\nEratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate."\n\n__________________________________________________\n\n*Hebrew "yashab" - meaning dwells or inhabits. dwells above the circle of the earth - ie inhabits the heavens.\n\n**Hebrew "khoog" - meaning circle in 2 dimensions and sphere in 3 dimensions. Note: a flat disk wheel (owphan) or circle (cabiyb) are used elsewhere in scripture, but are not sphere (khoog).
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Despite contrary assertions, the fact of a spherical earth was clearly proclaimed in the Bible by the prophet Isaiah nearly twenty-eight centuries ago ... "It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers [etc.]" Isaiah 40:22 (NKJ). When Isaiah wrote this verse he used the Hebrew word "khug" to describe the shape of the earth. Although this word is commonly translated into the English word "circle," the literal meaning of this word is "a sphere."\n\n \nDid Bible writers believe the earth was flat?\n\nNo, this false idea is not taught in Scripture!\n\nSome Bible critics have claimed that Revelation 7:1 assumes a flat earth since the verse refers to angels standing at the "four corners" of the earth. Actually, the reference is to the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west. Similar terminology is often used today when we speak of the sun's rising and setting, even though the earth, not the sun, is doing the moving. Bible writers used the "language of appearance," just as people always have. Without it, the intended message would be awkward at best and probably not understood clearly. [DD]\n\nIn the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. [DD]\n\nA literal translation of Job 26:10 is "He described a circle upon the face of the waters, until the day and night come to an end." A spherical earth is also described in Isaiah 40:21-22 - "the circle of the earth."\n\nProverbs 8:27 also suggests a round earth by use of the word circle (e.g., New King James Bible and New American Standard Bible). If you are overlooking the ocean, the horizon appears as a circle. This circle on the horizon is described in Job 26:10. The circle on the face of the waters is one of the proofs that the Greeks used for a spherical earth. Yet here it is recorded in Job, ages before the Greeks discovered it. Job 26:10 indicates that where light terminates, darkness begins. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe. [JSM]\n\nThe Hebrew record is the oldest, because Job is one of the oldest books in the Bible. Historians generally [wrongly] credit the Greeks with being the first to suggest a spherical earth. In the sixth century B.C., Pythagoras suggested a spherical earth. [JSM]\n\nEratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 194 or 192 B.C.) calcuated the circumference of the earth "within 50 miles of the present estimate." [Encyclopedia Brittanica]\n\nThe Greeks also drew meridians and parallels. They identified such areas as the poles, equator, and tropics. This spherical earth concept did not prevail; the Romans drew the earth as a flat disk with oceans around it. [JSM]\n\nThe 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. [DD]\n\nThe implication of a round earth is seen in the book of Luke, where Jesus described his return, Luke 17:31. Jesus said, "In that day," then in verse 34, "In that night." This is an allusion to light on one side of the globe and darkness on the other simultaneously. [JSM]
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Quran do not contain direct prophecies regarding what will happen in this world before day of resurection. But there are many statements in the Quran which are scientifically correct based on information only in during last few centuries. \n\nFor example existance sex in plants.\n"Glory to God, Who created in pairs all things that the earth produces, as well as their own (human) kind and (other) things of which they have no knowledge. " 36: 36.  \nThe word used in "earth produce" is a word nabath, which means plants.\n\nSee another verse that suggest big bang theory\n"Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe? " 21: 30.  \n\nWater constitutes 80% of all living thing. Is that suggested in this verse ?
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No body know for certain. However, the universe is so vast, with so many celestial bodies that it seems rather improbable if the only place in the whole mutiverse that harbors life is planet Earth.
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While I've never heard that, I don't doubt that it was said. But it is false. Rumors like that start all the time. There has never been anything found on the moon. No alien structures, no "glass domes", nothing like that. Maybe they were seeing a weird inactive volcano of something. I don't know what it actually was, because like I said I've never heard that.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
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I agree and this is one of the most difficult issues that I have been struggling with lately.  Our ancestors of 2000 years ago did not have the science nor the technology to explain everyday events.  "Oh my gosh!  That glowing ball is back!  It must be a god!"  So, they named him Helios.  I'm just so confused as to why the Bible is still the end all, be all authority.  We've obviously made leaps and bounds in our understanding of the earth, our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.  Ugh!  I'm just so confused and find it VERY hard to follow with blind faith.
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you know the world isnt flat right??
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and i shall act dumb as you have acted smart! lol\nalright i understand what you are saying but disagree and allow me to explain there is further space than the sky as you call it and why you wrong is that the sky only belongs here on earth alright sweety \nwhat you mean to say is all above us is i guess Allahu ta'ala!\n\nsupreme is supreme how dare you try to think you have figured it all out you smart person !yet so very wrong! for thinking you got!\nand trying to sound conviencing! \nBUT "SIKE" NAH!\nand had the nerves to answer your own question as 'TRUTH SEEKER"\nSHAME ON YOU FOOL!!
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There are none! Cause the world hasnt even been here that long! This world has only been here lyk ovr 2000 years! Im assuming u eithr believe n evolution or ur jst stupid lol! Cuz seriously y would u think the earth has been here that long! Im not a big god person but sitll god created the world n if it was here 4 more then 180 million years i think he would tell us that! Jst trust me ppl who think our world is that old r jst crazy! Cuz it aint true! Cuz if it was y is our year 2006? Y wouldnt it b 180,000,000!!! Honestly if the world was here that long the year would b that high! N if u dnt believe me then ur crazy cuz ppl who think the earth is that old r jst crazy!
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What? You mean those volumes of factual research written by scientists. The same scientists that said the world was flat. The same scientists that said the atom could not be split. The same scientists who said we would never put a man on the moon. O.K. I believe in the Bible because I know it is true. It was inspired by a God who knows everything.
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Stop picking on Christians.\n\nDid you know that the Quran said the earth is flat and has four corners.  The Mountains are begs to hold the earth stable, the stars were created to shot down the demons or devils, earth is the center of the universe not the sun, the sun set in a murky water... and on and on and on......\n\nWhy is it you don't question the Muslims and what is written in the Quran, and you just pick on the Christians.  Does it have anything to do with your lack of knowledge or you simply prejudice! which one. take your pick.  then grow up.\n\nThe Bible was written in parables.  Now go and learn.