Those that want to mock the Bible will sometimes try to get it to say the world is flat, as part of their pro-evolutionism POV that discredits the accuracy of the Bible and lowers trust in the apparent reading of it.
Josh 6:5 has an unambiguous statement about something explicitly being "flat"
5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”
Sadly for such a POV ,
no such case is found in the Bible where that word is used to
describe Earth's shape.
wh;ich means it is not accurate to try and discredit the Bible's description of the seven day creation week, as if the Bible "account" of something is not accurate
Gen 2:4 This is
the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created
The Bible says the 7 days at Sinai are the same as the 7 days in Gen 1-.
But belief in evolutionism says "those are days that did not happen, what actually happened is whatever belief in evolutionism would teach"
There is a very big difference between what the Bible actually says and the many different ways that it has been interpreted by the readers of it—and Genesis 1-11 is not an exception to this basic fact. Indeed, we read in the
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament, Volume I, Genesis 1-11 edited by Andrew Louth and published in 2001 by InterVarsity Press very numerous interpretations of Genesis 1-11 by the early Fathers of the Church. They did not mock the Bible—they loved it and invested their lives in the study and teaching of it! As for the Bible’s teaching on the shape of the earth, both the Old and New Testament writers expressly taught that the earth is flat. The Old Testament writers described the earth as being flat and covered with a strong, solid dome.
The Hebrew Masoretic text of
Genesis 1:6-8 expressly describes the creation of a flat earth covered with a dome that “separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome.”
1:6 ויאמר אלהים יהי רקיע בתוך המים ויהי מבדיל בין מים למים׃
1:7 ויעשׂ אלהים את־הרקיע ויבדל בין המים אשׁר מתחת לרקיע ובין המים אשׁר מעל לרקיע ויהי־כן׃
1:8 ויקרא אלהים לרקיע שׁמים ויהי־ערב ויהי־בקר יום שׁני׃
The Septuagint also expressly describes the creation of a flat earth covered with a dome that “separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome.”
Gen 1:6 Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Γενηθήτω στερέωμα ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ ὕδατος καὶ ἔστω διαχωρίζον ἀνὰ μέσον ὕδατος καὶ ὕδατος. καὶ ἐγένετο οὕτως.
Gen 1:7 καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ στερέωμα, καὶ διεχώρισεν ὁ θεὸς ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ὕδατος, ὃ ἦν ὑποκάτω τοῦ στερεώματος, καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ ἐπάνω τοῦ στερεώματος.
Gen 1:8 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ στερέωμα οὐρανόν. καὶ εἶδεν ὁ θεὸς ὅτι καλόν. καὶ ἐγένετο ἑσπέρα καὶ ἐγένετο πρωί, ἡμέρα δευτέρα.
Genesis 1:6. And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
7. So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.
8. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. (NRSV)
Genesis 1:6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (KJV)
The KJV correctly translates the Hebrew word רָקִיעַ (râqı̂ya‛) as “firmament”, but most modern readers of the KJV are unaware of the meaning of the word “firmament,” and do not realize that it came down to us from the Latin present active infinitive (firmāre) of the Latin verb firmō, meaning “I make firm, strengthen, harden, or fortify” and that it expresses the concept of the strong, solid dome that supported the water above the dome.
Matt. 4:8. Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor;
9. and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”
10. Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
‘Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.' "
This could be true ONLY if the earth is flat! Matthew, being a Jew, believed as did the Jewish Rabbis at the time (and for the next seven centuries). Luke, however, was a Gentile and had a very good Greek education (he was a physician). Therefore he gently corrected Matthew’s obvious error and wrote instead,
Luke 4:5. Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
6. And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.
7. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
8. Jesus answered him, It is written,
‘Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.' "
The theory of evolution does not say that the Bible is wrong because the theory of evolution is a matter of science and the Bible is a matter religion.
