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At various times and in various places it has been thought that the earth is flat. In fact, as recently as the sixteenth century, sailors would threaten to mutiny on ocean going ships that sailed too far from land, for fear of sailing off the edge of the earth, which was thought by many to be flat like a table top. There are even a few who believe in a flat earth today. (Some have mistakenly thought that the Bible teaches a flat earth, but it does not. The Bible speaks of the “four corners” of the earth (in Rev. 7:1), but this is only a figurative way of referring to the “four points” (basic directions) of the compass —and this same verse speaks of the “four winds,” which refers to the same thing.)

In comparison, the Bible actually says, “He (God) sits enthroned above the circle of the earth and its people are like grasshoppers” (Isaiah 40:22 NIV). In that verse, the word translated “circle” is the Hebrew “khoog”, which can also be translated as “roundness,” “circle,” “circuit,” or “compass” (ref: Strongs Dictionary, 2329).

The roundness of the earth is a viewpoint from space that no mere man had in seven sixty BC when those words were written. (Although, it might easily be suspected that the earth is round, by looking at the sun and moon). Furthermore, from about the year fifteen hundred BC, it declares in Job 26:10, “He marks out a circle (or roundness) on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.” Indeed, a circle would be the correct shape which describes any line between darkness and day-light along the surface of the oceans.

The Earth Suspends in Space

For centuries different various cultures around the world speculated what holds up or supports the earth among the stars and sun and moon. The ancient Greeks believed that a giant being, Atlas, stood with the earth on his huge arms and shoulders, while the Hindus believed that the earth was supported on the backs of immense elephants, which stood on the shell of a great cosmic turtle which then swam around in the “cosmic sea.”

But the Bible, on the other hand, gives an amazingly precise picture of what we have confirmed to be scientific reality today, as seen from space. The Bible says (concerning God): “He suspends the earth over nothing” (Job 26:7). This is a precise description of what it is like to view the earth from outer space, from any direction. It also does not run counter to the gravitational (and momentum) force which “suspends” the earth in space “over nothing.”

Amazingly, these are words written in about fifteen hundred BC. Orderly Astronomical Movements in Space In about the year six BC, God declares through the prophet Jeremiah: “Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night …if this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever” (Jer. 31:35,36).

There is an orderly relationship in the positioning of the sun, moon, stars and earth, which is established in relation to each other. However, this is not a static or motionless relationship, because God created the sun, moon and stars to move in a regular fashion for the measuring of time, as God said (as written in fifteen hundred BC), “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years” (Gen. 1:14).

The orderly relationship and motions of the bodies in space has been designed by the God of the Bible, and their regular and orderly motion has a time measuring function. Such order comes from the laws of physics which are part of what God created in matter.

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