Round Earth

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MICHAEL MCGILL(2/28)
Many people believe the fact of a spherical earth was clearly proclaimed 
in the Bible 
by the author of the book of Isaiah. "It is He who sits above the circle 
of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches 
out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell 
in."-Isaiah 40:22(NKJ)

Because belief in a flat earth was prevalent at that time, many claim 
that that verse
not only confirms the scientific accuracy of the Bible but that it also 
confirms
that the knowledge in the Bible came from God.

During a Lunar eclipse the curved edge of earth's shadow crawls over the 
face of the moon. Up untill we sent astronauts into space who could look 
back and actually see that the earth was round the only visual proof we 
had that the earth was round was the curve of the earth's shadow during 
lunar eclipses. In fact in 300 b.c. a Greek named Eratosthenes tried to 
convince the world that the earth was indeed a sphere and used as one of 
his proofs the curvature of the earth's shadow during lunar eclipses and 
incredibly it was simply because of philosophical prejudices that his 
proof was not accepted for over 1500 years. This knowledge of the earth 
as a sphere was available to man in ancient times and without "divine 
revelation".

Of course other Bible verses seem to indicate a belief in a non-spherical 
earth, such as
Job 37:3 the earth has ends or edges, or Isaiah 11:12 and revelation 7:1 
the earth has four corners.

Michael

  

 

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