When a person asks why did you prefer evil rather than doing good, naturally, you will blame the Bible.
Why did the Bible say that the Earth is flat? The Bible cannot speak!
If people actually read the Bible with a desire to understand what is written within its pages, maybe they would not ask questions that demonstrate ignorance.
- They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water. (2 Peter 3:5)
- And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament….And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.…And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:6-19)
To put a firmament (or anything) in the midst of water is tantamount to separating water from water, as if one were putting a ball in the midst of water.
When you read that a firmament was created in the midst of the waters and the two great lights were made, one of which is definitely spherical—the moon!—why do the ignorati not recognize the obvious?
People, who were capable of building architectural structures that modern man marvels at today, because the technologically to do so does not exist, according to the deluded intelligentsia of this current time, were too unintelligent to recognize what a sphere looked like.
As for the statement in the Bible that the sun was set in the Heavens, this does not indicate that the inspired writers of the Holy Writ believed the sun was set in one place in the Heavens; neither does anything else like expressions such as “the ends of the earth” mean they thought that planet Earth was flat.
- May he rule from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. (Psalm 72:8)
- Then Solomon said, “The Lord has set the sun in the heavens, but has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. I have built thee an exalted house, a place for thee to dwell in for ever.” (1 Kings 8:12-13)
Neither did the writers of the Bible believe that God could be housed in a building.
- The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man….[The truth is] in him we live and move and have our being. (Acts 17:24-28)
The only people who believe in a flat Earth belong to the gullible. The gullible believe that the ancients were stupid. The gullible will believe anything they are told or have read somewhere without seeking answers to some very important questions (e.g. Why am I born only to die? Why does futility have to reign? Why do humans tell lies and not expect other people to lie to them? Where is the justice in being born to suffer?).
In the one of the ancient writings, we read that the sun makes a circuit in the Heavens. This does this mean that the Earth is flat.
- Gentlemen, are not women strong? The earth is vast, and heaven is high, and the sun is swift in its course, for it makes the circuit of the heavens and returns to its place in one day. (1 Esdras 4:34)
Foolish people will think that other people are not intelligent, because they lack the insight to recognize that intelligence is bestowed upon all humans. Whether humans use their ability to be intelligent and recognize that wisdom is the epitome of intelligence is another matter. For all humans are intelligent, but not all humans are wise.
- The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice. (Proverbs 12:15)
- Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. (Proverbs 13:20)
Anyone who has observed an eclipse begins to recognize that a sphere exists when it comes to the two circles that circuit the Earth—so why not the Earth?
https://youtu.be/G10m2ZZRH4U?t=61
Just watching the Moon over a period of a month, the evidence is the Moon is a ball.
https://youtu.be/bkvvFRYrebw
The question regarding the Bible stating that the Bible is flat, suggests that anyone believing this false assertion would also believe that the Bible states the Moon is flat.
When people read the Bible, they first have to learn how to read; but before they read, someone has to produce the writing.
Astoundingly, people thinking that they are intelligent, propose that ancient people, who had the capacity to create symbols with which to write and read, were not intelligent enough to observe the world in which they lived and recognize that the Moon was a sphere.
Now if people are able to recognize that the Moon is a sphere, they just might think that the Earth could be a sphere as well. They might even think that the Sun could complete a circuit around a spherical Earth. It just so happens that people are capable of thinking this, even if they do not conceive of the Earth spinning around an invisible axis at 1040 mph, with the Moon encircling it at 2288 mph, while they together fly around the Sun at 70,000 mph.
Every human knows that the Earth is spinning at 1040 mph and we are travelling at 70,000 mph—but them maybe not! After all, that the Earth spins while travelling at some 70,000 mph is rather hard to prove. Not everybody can just jump into an intergalactic spaceship and check the speedometer as while flying around the Sun alongside planet Earth. On the other hand, a spherical Earth is nowhere as difficult to conceptualize or prove. All one has to do is observe the Moon, or climb the peak of solitary mountain, or go down to the ocean in the early hours of the morning and stand on a cliff, to realize we live inside a spherical covering
