The Bible seems to always promote a flat earth belief over a spherical earth

[paarsurrey]

The Bible seems to always promote a flat earth belief over a spherical earth

Why worry about the Bible, please?

Hey, all I know is that I recently visited The East and every single thing looked and felt different there. Everything - the language, the food, the terrain, the trees, even the grass - it all looked and felt different. But I believe the earth is a roundish sphere. Oh, I also passed over the International Date Line and ended up arriving "earlier" than I left! I felt terrible for about a week. LOL

The Atheism people, if they ever existed at those times, also were not different.
When I come form the country of my origin to Canada, the day I fly from there, I reach Canada the same day, even though the flight has covered a distance of some 10,000+ kilometers. It is because the Earth is round, and I come from the East to Westwards.
But, these things were never important spiritually and religiously.

Regards

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Why worry about the Bible, please?

Why worry about the Quran?

 

[Eli G]

Flat earthers who try to use the Bible as support often use the expressions "the edges of the earth" and "the four corners of the earth" as arguments. But the truth is that any point of dry soil that a terrestrial observer steps on, ends up in water along any of its edges, whether in a lake, a river, a sea, or an ocean. There is not a SINGLE POINT OF DRY EARTH that has no end all around it.

So talking about extremes, sides, corners, is the most natural thing in the world when you talk about the earth/land you step on.

Actually, the term translated “earth” does not always refer to the entire planet, but is usually used with reference to specific countries, with their borders, i.e. the land. For example, when talking about "the land of Israel”, the Hebrew word translated “land” refers to the territory that belonged to the country; even when the prophecies were evidently referring to the country or its local inhabitants, the prophet is not talking here about the planet earth but only "the land" .

Eze. 7:1 The word of Jehovah again came to me, saying: 2 “As for you, son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says to the land (ADMATH) of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land (ERETZ).

So, these flat earthers give an incorrect interpretation to the use of this type of expressions.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001239

Bible Terms and Significance. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word used for earth as a planet is ʼeʹrets. ʼEʹrets refers to (1) earth, as opposed to heaven, or sky (Ge 1:2); (2) land, country, territory (Ge 10:10); (3) ground, surface of the ground (Ge 1:26); (4) people of all the globe (Ge 18:25).

The word ʼadha·mahʹ is translated “ground,” “soil,” or “land.” ʼAdha·mahʹ refers to (1) ground as tilled, yielding sustenance (Ge 3:23); (2) piece of ground, landed property (Ge 47:18); (3) earth as material substance, soil, dirt (Jer 14:4;1Sa 4:12); (4) ground as earth’s visible surface (Ge 1:25); (5) land, territory, country (Le 20:24); (6) whole earth, inhabited earth (Ge 12:3). ʼAdha·mahʹ seems to be related etymologically to the word ʼa·dhamʹ, the first man Adam having been made from the dust of the ground.—Ge 2:7.