The earth is flat!!!?

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ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE NOT ME!!!!!!


"The earth takes shape like clay under a seal." (Job 38:14) 
Clay when stamped with a seal is not rounded into a ball, but flattened, like the clay seal found in Israel in 1994. 

"take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it" (Job 38:12-13) 
How could the earth be held by its "edges"? A sphere has no edges. 

"[T]he devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" (Matthew 4:1-12) 
Certainly, if the earth were flat, standing atop "an exceedingly high mountain" would allow Jesus to see the whole earth, but there is no mountain tall enough to allow him to see the other side of a spherical earth. At most, one hemisphere would be seen, but not the other. 

"The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great. The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth." (Daniel 4:10-11) 
The "whole" earth? No matter how tall the tree was, even if it was only a dream, it would not have been visible from the other side of the earth. 

"To whom then will ye liken God? ....It is he that sitteth upon the circle (chuwg) of the earth" (Isaiah 40:18-23) 
The Hebrew word used in scripture for "circle" in the verse above is chuwg. If the Bible writer had meant for us to believe that "circle of the earth" meant that the earth was round, the writer would have used the Hebrew word for "ball," which is duwr. The fact that Isaiah didn't use duwr shows that he wasn't trying to tell us the earth was like a ball. 
Everyone knew what a "circle" was in those times; it meant the same then as it means today. A circle is a flat shape while a sphere is a round one.




How can something with flaws in it be the word of God???
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F.S · Accepted Answer

According to Quran ;  the earth is round...
 ' innal arda mudaaverah'.......

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According to Islam also:

021.033 
YUSUFALI: It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the sun and the moon: all (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course. 
PICKTHAL: And He it is Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. They float, each in an orbit. 
SHAKIR: And He it is Who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all (orbs) travel along swiftly in their celestial spheres.

There is not a single verse in the Qur'an that mentions the earth orbits the sun. In fact, all of them mention the exact opposite: that the sun orbits the earth, and the earth is fixed:

027.061 
YUSUFALI: Or, Who has made the earth firm to live in; made rivers in its midst; set thereon mountains immovable; and made a separating bar between the two bodies of flowing water? (can there be another) god besides Allah? Nay, most of them know not.
PICKTHAL: Is not He (best) Who made the earth a fixed abode, and placed rivers in the folds thereof, and placed firm hills therein, and hath set a barrier between the two seas? Is there any Allah beside Allah? Nay, but most of them know not!
SHAKIR: Or, Who made the earth a restingplace, and made in it rivers, and raised on it mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier. Is there a god with Allah? Nay! most of them do not know!

Here's one from the hadith:

Narrated Abu Dharr: The Prophet asked me at sunset, "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better." He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west. And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah: ‘And the sun Runs its fixed course for a term (decreed). That is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All-Knowing.’"
Sahih Bukhari 4:54:421

By the way, the Qur'an also never refers to the sun as a star, but always as "sun, moon, and stars".

And as for flaws in the Bible, look at all the flaws in the Qur'an. You need to look at your own religion with the same healthy skepticism you use with Christianity.

http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Contradictions_in_the_Qur%27an
http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Scientific_Errors_in_the_Qur%27an

Bonus: Is a star the same as a meteor? Read 37.6, then read 67.5

037.006 
YUSUFALI: We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty (in) the stars,- 
PICKTHAL: Lo! We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets; 
SHAKIR: Surely We have adorned the nearest heaven with an adornment, the stars,

067.005 
YUSUFALI: And we have, (from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with Lamps, and We have made such (Lamps) (as) missiles to drive away the Evil Ones, and have prepared for them the Penalty of the Blazing Fire. 
PICKTHAL: And verily We have beautified the world's heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles for the devils, and for them We have prepared the doom of flame. 
SHAKIR: And certainly We have adorned this lower heaven with lamps and We have made these missiles for the Shaitans, and We have prepared for them the chastisement of burning.

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The earth is flat!!!?

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