EGGO

Something I've heard everywhere, but I haven't found where in the bible it states the earth is flat besides in revelations where blah blah happens in the 4 corners of the earth (speres don't have corners of course).

Anybody knows where the rest is at?

Icky

Daniel 4
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

And then there is Satan showing Jesus all the kingdoms of the world from the top of a mountain. Christians may argue that Satan is powerful enough to do this, but then....what need for a mountain?

Secular Pinoy

Try this article.

Volker.Doormann

If the sight thereof is assumed to a definabel end of all the earth, it seems, that the sight from a high mountain there allows a more limited sight until the horizon, which is given by the height of the mountain and the radius of the earth sphere. A flat earth would not limit in general the sight from a high mountain. Isn’t it?

BTW. The fact, that there is no knowledge about the things beyond horizon does not prove a belief in a flat earth; modern scientists have no knowledge about the end of the universe, and this also does not prove anything.

Volker

Amos

It doesn't really say that but in juxtaposing heaven with earth and heaven being round earth must be flat. It is just a literary expression that literalist ran away with and since they still can't understand this their world is still very flat.

Aerik Von

I find it hilarious that whenever the bible is correct about something that it is considered "proof of the divine perfection of the bible" but when it's obvious dissenting from the scientific viewpoint it's "literary idealism".

It's a nice con, but the bible cannot swing from pretty, literary blather too 100% truth from one moment to the next to explain it's obvious mistakes.

Amos

Well it was probably a mistake for you to have opened it because the allegory begins on the first page and ends on the last. We advocate censorship for your benefit and are sorry about your confusion.

mark9950

You really should read the book of Enoch.

I think it is part of the catholic bible apocrapha.

You can read it free on the web just type book of enoch.

The book of enoch explains a lot of what is in genesis such as the sons of god in genesis.

Also read this

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm

GakuseiDon

I had a dream once where I could fly. But I couldn't fly once I woke up. In another dream, I seemed to walk across town in seconds. It seemed natural in my dream, but I couldn't do it after I woke up. I wonder what it all meant?

I like dreams.

Magus55

If you would read in context you would see this is a dream. The tree is symbolic.