The Bible says Earth is flat. How can people claim to be Christian and believe in a round Earth?

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The king seeing all the earth

"Daniel 4:10-11. In Daniel, the king “saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth… reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds.” Only with a flat Earth could a tall tree be visible from "the earth's farthest bounds" — this is impossible on a spherical Earth, or is the tree a rocket?

Jesus seeing all the kingdoms
Shows why you couldn't see all the kingdoms. To be fair, you can suggest that those outside of lines of sight are not kingdoms.

Matthew 4:8: "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain [spaceship?], and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world"
    Luke 4:5: "And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time."

The earth is a circle

Isaiah 40:22: "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth (Earth’s orbit?), and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy (map), and spreads them out like a tent to live in."

"Four Corners"

Isaiah 11:12 "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners [north, south, east and west] of the earth."
    Revelation 7:1 "And after these things I saw four angels standing on four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree."

Charles · Answer

You are misreading it.

Anonymous · Answer

All religions are cults and each cult gets to make its own rules.

Other sheep · Answer

Isaiah 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:

Anonymous · Answer

An Earth that was “round” would be flat. A CD is round. The Earth is more or less spherical.

The fact that, when the texts making up the Bible were written, people believed the Earth was flat doesn't affect a person's religious beliefs.

I imagine that anything claiming that the Earth was spherical would have been rejected as just plain wrong.

Anonymous · Answer

Because we read the Bible correctly and it is a globe. "Flat Earth" is a delusion.

Anonymous · Answer

To me? TOO OBVIOUS.   Prove earth is spinning?
Doesn't LOOK it.
Doesn't FEEL it.

Therefore, it's SPINNING.   How crazy is that?

Over 100 years ago, at least 2 groups of scientists, 
yes, there were scientists then, that earth DID..NOT..MOVE.

Since they WANTED to prove it did, guess what they did with their experiments?

Locked them away!!

Is that brilliant or what?

There's NO CURVATURE.  
But you keep believing lies if it helps you.

This FABULOUS earth is just WAY more advanced.
Think huge space station, like the garden of Eden.

But I expected that.

nineteenthly · Answer

Because we don't all interpret the Bible literally.  Biblical literalism is a fairly new idea, arising iirc in the seventeenth century.  Old Testament Jews and early Christians didn't approach it in that way.  In fact the Jews still don't.

Your Word is a light to my roadway · Answer

What you are talking about is clearly stated to be a dream.

Anonymous · Answer

The earth is round and people take a supposed flat earrth out of context, the earth has always been round.

Bill-M · Answer

You are mis-reading the Bible.  Reading in what you want.
The word FLAT EARTH is NOT in the Bible.

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The Bible says Earth is flat. How can people claim to be Christian and believe in a round Earth?

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