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Misunderstanding the Bible
Common misbeliefs about the Bible
- Does the Bible say that the earth is flat? -
A typical trait of angels is that they sing.
The Bible says that the earth is flat.
The Tree Of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad, bad tree.
Sarah snickered because she didn't believe she'd be a mom.
Jonah was gobbled up by a whale.
Satan is God's counter-pole. Darkness and fire belong to Satan.
In the Bible black stands for bad and white stands for good.
A true story is something that actually happened.
The Bible is the Word of God
The Bible is infallible
If you're good, you'll go to heaven. If you're bad, you'll go to hell.
God destroyed the Tower of Babel to punish the builders.
During a duel with Satan, God wrecked Job just to make a point.
Jesus was born in a stable; ox, donkey, and the angels sang!
Astrology is always wrong.
Hand palm reading is always wrong.
Jesus was a Jew, from the line of David
Jesus had nails through His feet.
Jesus asked God to forgive His executioners for crucifying Him.
Jesus was very poor
Thomas was a heinous unbeliever, made a fool of by Christ.
Even wilder than the Bible's statement of a spherical earth
is the occurrence of
the Standard Model of elementary
particles in the Book of Genesis.
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Quite to the contrary.
The Biblical world view certainly differs from ours, but that's probably because the Bible's view on pretty much anything differs from ours. That's why the Bible exists. But nowhere is the earth called flat.
Isaiah writes about the "circle of the earth" (40:22), which may indicate merely the circular horizon but certainly does not obstruct a spherical earth model. As a matter of fact, Isaiah lived in a hill country and his horizon was not a circle. Isaiah's literary abilities were extraordinary and if he was speaking of the horizon, he would have chosen a different word than circle. Still, this remains conjecture.
In Job 26:7 however we read the astounding and accurate remark that "the earth is suspended on nothing"; something that is contradicted by every ancient world model, but confirmed by modern science.
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