earth flat? Not Bible

Psalm 33: [3] Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
[4] For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

"I love that 'play skilfully,' " says Richard Jordan. "You know, a lot of folks play with loud noise, but He says ‘play skillfully.’ That means be on pitch. Here’s what you’re to sing and praise and be excited about: ‘For the word of the Lord is right.’

"David writes in Psalm 8, 'When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained . . .'

"When you ordain something, you order it and set it up in a very specific way. That's why when people ask, 'Why am I here?' the answer is, 'God ordained some things that you're a part of.'

"When you do something with your fingers, you're doing it with a great deal of skill and carefulness—with purpose. The finger of God is a reference to the Holy Spirit.

"In Deuteronomy, when God wrote the tables of stone and gave them to Moses, it says He wrote with His finger. In Luke 11, when the Lord Jesus Christ refers back to the finger of God, He calls Him the 'Holy Spirit.'

"In talking about the greatness of the Messiah, Isaiah says, 'Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him?'

"It's like God figured to Himself, 'You know that lake over there—I want it to have so many gallons of water.' He goes over and dips out so much dirt—gets it out of the way so it will hold so much water—and then He fills it up.

"Now you know He didn't literally do it that way, but the point is He had a plan. He knew just how big He wanted the Pacific Ocean to be, just how big He wanted the Indian Ocean, the Adriatic. He had a plan minutely designed."

"The word 'span' in the passage refers to a way of measuring, akin to a measuring stick. God measured the distance between the earth and the sun and made it exactly the 93 million miles that it is.

"You ever think about the fact that the universe is put together with that kind of care? Ordinances. That's why everything works the way it does.

"Isaiah asks pretty much the same question of Israel when he writes:

[21] Have 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?
[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

"If God sits on 'the circle of the earth,' what shape do you think the earth is? Nobody who was ever a Bible-believer thought the earth was flat. You know who thought the earth was flat? Scientists. The people who were stating the science of their day.

"God created the universe as tent for Him to dwell in. He was creating a house in which He intended to live. He created it in a way that honored, pleased and satisfied Him. He set it up the way He wanted it set up.

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"Concerning the earth, these presumed masterminds (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) came up with such bizarre, hare-brained ideas as to be found laughable by any civilized intelligent standard.

"If the Bible were to assert that the earth was carried on the shoulders of the god Atlas, who stood on the backs of giant tortoises, which stood on the backs of elephants, this would be more than sufficient reason to discredit the Holy Scriptures as being of God. And still the Greek scholars are revered today by those who refuse to recognize the wisdom of God and His Holy Book.

"In contrast, Job, the oldest book in the Bible, explains that God spread the skies over empty space and 'hangeth the earth upon nothing.' (Job 26:7)

"Isaiah, a book dating as far back as 698 B.C., confirms that the Lord sits enthroned above the 'circle of the earth.' (Isaiah 40:22)

"Up until the 15^th century, without the benefit of a telescope or a knowledge of the physics of astronomy, no one knew nor would many people believe the earth was not flat.

"Noted Bible teacher, J. Vernon McGee, has stated that the word 'circle' is synonymous with 'globe,' a round geometric figure. The Bible is not a book of science and yet not even in one point does it contradict any principle of modern science that has been established as fact rather than mere theory."

 

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