WWUTT: Does the Bible Say the Earth is Flat?
Does the Bible say the earth is flat?
No. (Do we really have to cover this topic?)
Scoffers twist the Bible into saying the earth is flat. Now a growing number of professing Christians are doing it, too.
Flat earthers use 1 Samuel 2:8 and Psalm 75:3 which mention the pillars of the earth, and how God has “set the world upon them.” But this is poetic, meaning that God has created all things and established them.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them He has set the world. (Song of Hannah , 1 Samuel 2:8)
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep stead its pillars. (Song of Asaph, Psalm 75:3)
Flat earthers use Job 28:24 and Psalm 48:10 which refer to the ends of the earth. But this is symbolic for a great distance or all people.
For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. (Job 28:24)
As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. (Psalm 48:10)
Acts 13:47 says the Lord has commanded us to “bring [the message of] salvation ” to the ends of the earth.”
Flat earthers use Isaiah 11:12 and Revelation 7:1 which speak of the four corners of the earth. Still symbolism, referring to something happening in all directions: north, south, east, and west.
He will raise a signal for the nations and assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. (Isaiah 11:12)
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth… (Revelation 7:1)
The Bible doesn’t explicitly say the earth is flat or round, although it does allude to its spherical shape. Job 26:7 says that God hangs the earth on nothing, and Isaiah 40:22 says He sits above the circle of the earth.
He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. (Job 26:7)
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 like a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40:22)
If you think the Bible says the earth is flat, you put that in the text. You did not pull that from the text. Flat earth cosmology is derived from paganism, not Christianity.
Whatever you believe about the shape of the earth, it doesn’t have any bearing on your salvation. “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). Nonetheless, the Bible says avoid irreverent, silly myths.
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for Godliness. (1 Timothy 4:7)
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies. You know they breed quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies…
…When we understand the text!
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