The bible clearly states the world is round.
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Nah-ah!
Isaiah 11:12 :the four corners of the earth ."
Matthew 4:8 :
Sure. Round and flat, like a dish. With a foundation, like a house. And the heavens a tent placed over it.
Isiah 40:21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Yes, like a circle though, not like a ball.
Isaiah 40:22 - "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth", [KJV] "Qui sedet super gyrum terrae" [Vulgate].
The word 'gyrum' in the vulgate means disc, not ball or sphere, which would be 'globus'. Similarly the Greek septaguint uses the word 'gyros' rather than 'spheros' and the hebrew text says 'chweg' meaning disc, not 'duwr' meaning ball.
Edit: Nuts, HH beat me to it while I was trying to find an online septaguint! The point is, in no language does the bible unambiguously say the Earth is (roughly) spherical, and in most it unambiguously says it is not!
Ah, poor l'il sheeple, trying to reconcile reality and a book written thousands of years ago by a bunch of goat herders, without being allowed to read said book...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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