If you're a Bible-believer, undoubtedly you have been referred to as a 'flat-earther' sometime or another. This comes from people who have never read the Bible themselves and by blind faith take the words of the average university professor. I always point out concerning this subject that if you were to lock someone for years in a room only with a Bible for them to read, they would come out knowing the Earth is ROUND instead of flat. How is this possible?
Because they would have read Isaiah 40 which is a chapter that describes how God is incomparable to man. In this chapter you would come across verse 22 which reads, "It is he (God) that sitteth upon the CIRCLE of the Earth, and the inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:22). You notice I point out the word 'CIRCLE' in that passage. Not only does this point to the roundness of the Earth, but also the Hebrew word used for 'circle' in that verse is 'chuwg' which refers to a sphere or a ball.
Remember, this is long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and not to mention before the first satellite ever launched into space. This is no surprise since God already showed us that the stars are innumerable in Genesis 15:5 and Jeremiah 33:22 before Galileo invented the telescope. Not to mention revealing the Earth hangs upon nothing in Job 26:7 which is totally contrary to the belief of a giant man holding it upon his shoulders and the Hindu belief that it was held up by giant turtles.
Also check out Luke 17:34-36 where Jesus describes different time zones around the Earth when He returns. It mentions two in a bed which is nighttime, two women grinding (at the mill as described in Matthew 24:41) which is around morning, and two in a field which would be daytime. Quite interesting isn't it?!
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