The world is flat! (to Lisa)

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> (DAVE 2/14)  Lisa:  Can you please forward the reference where the Bible 

> states that the world is flat?


Isa 40:22 [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.

Contrary to most fundamentalist assertions, the Hebrew word here translated
"circle" ("chuwg") does not connote a sphere. It is used in two other
places in the Old Testament:

Job 22:14 Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he
walketh in the circuit ("chuwg") of heaven. 

Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass
("chuwg") upon the face of the depth: 

The word is derived from a root that means to circle about, or to surround.
The root is translated "compassed" in the King James Version of Job 26:10.

If Isaiah had intended to connote a sphere, he would have used the word
"duwr", which is translated "ball" in the King James Version of Isaiah
22:18.

Isaiah 22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a
large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory
shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 

-Curt

http://www.primenet.com/~heuvelc

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