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The earth is not spheroid it is flattish

 
sudden 2017-09-09 16:55:15 

According to the Bible. Link Text

The Bible teaches that the earth was "flat and circular sitting on pillars with a rotating solid sky dome overhead which carried the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars and allowed water to leak through 'windows of heaven' or sluice gates to form clouds and rain."1 If the claim is true that the Bible teaches such a primitive cosmology, then nobody should believe that it originates from God nor follow its precepts. So, let's look at what the Bible really says about the heavens and the earth and whether the atheists' claims are valid.

 
bravos 2017-09-09 17:33:34 

In reply to sudden

I pity the believers of such trash and wish them well in their mental struggles,it's as if they refuse to give up their childhood blanky and really open their eyes like sensible adults,at least the tacky old blanket was real to begin with.

They've been had and refuse to accept it,typical human ego..

Ends of the Earth

The Bible makes numerous references to "the ends of the earth."28 Obviously, if the earth were spherical, it would have no ends. Don't these verses show that the Bible promulgates a flat earth theology? In reality, the Bible almost never refers to planet earth (except in its obvious cosmological passages). The Hebrew word erets, sometimes translated into the English word "earth," nearly always refers to local geography ("land") or the ground ("dirt"). Most often, passages reference specific geography (usually the land around Israel):