Inhabitants are like grasshoppers." In the book of Job, Eliphaz the That "God sits throned on the vaulted roof of earth, whose Near to the earth is clear from Joshua 10:12, which gives specific That the Hebrews considered the sun and moon to be small bodies Unless one assumes that the earth is essentially flat. Note that, even in KJV, while there are waters "above" theįirmament, the celestial bodies are "in" it.) This makes no sense Says the earth is covered by a vault (firmament) and that theĬelestial bodies move inside the vault. Modern translations such as the New English Bible, but it's clearĮnough in the King James Version. While the Bible nowhere states categorically that the earth isįlat, numerous Old Testament verses clearly show that the ancient
The Bible is, from Genesis to Revelation, a flat-earth book. The Bible does support that view, but wonders why this particularįundamentalist did not also accept the idea that the earth is flat, since Geocentrist fundamentalist who was arguing that the Bible supports aįixed, non-moving earth, with the all the rest of the universe movingĪround us at about one revolution per day. Which flat-earthers use to justify their position. Schadewald gave me permission to quote theįollowing paragraphs in which he summarizes the Biblical evidence Square earth with a heavenly vault, much like the Egyptian model. In the 5th century CE the monkĬosmas Indicopleustes, in his Christian Topography, described a But aįew malcontents within the Church pointed out that the Bible speaks of The early Christian Church accepted Aristotle's spherical earth. The last two are obviously (to us) irrelevant, but the others represent valid arguments based on observations of nature. Kinds, he thought that one was traveling to the same lands by Not realizing that these elephants are different When one travels east one findsĮlephants (Asian). Proof by elephants: When one travels west from Greece, oneįinds elephants (African).Matter tends to form into drops or globs, and the earth, inįorming from chaotic matter, did the same.One sees new stars as one moves north or south on the earth's The variation of a star's elevation with latitude.The variation of the sun's elevation with latitude.The shape of the curved shadow of the earth on the moon during eclipses.Horizon, the tops of the sails disappearing last. The gradual disappearance of ships over the.TheĮgyptians thought the earth a square, (with fourĬorners) with mountains at the edge supporting theĪristotle argued for a spherical earth, for these reasons:
Hollow, to provide space for their underworld. The ancients had many novel ideas about the shape of Simanek Early Ideas About the Shape of the Earth.