28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Ģ9 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed to you it shall be for food. Genesis is an excellent place to start with regard to the question of the shape of the universe.Ģ6 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image in the image of God He created him male and female He created them. What the Bible Says About the Shape of the Universe Genesis Is the earth flat or round? You’ll have to keep reading to find out. We’ll look at key passages from Scripture to see if the shape of the earth can be gleaned from the text. Flat-earthers still exist, so perhaps this study can shed some light on their view that the earth is flat. Though hindsight is always 20/20, the question of the earth’s shape deserves an investigation, as we seek to glorify the Lord with our minds. At that point, the church, teaching that the earth was “flat,” was given a bad reputation that many still remember when discussing the Age of Enlightenment that began in the late seventeenth century and continued through the early nineteenth century. It took a man such as Christian scientist Galileo Galilei to discover by way of the telescope that the earth was round, not flat. In reality, though, the earth is round, and the church didn’t take time then to consider that its view of the earth’s shape was erroneous. The church believed the earth was flat because of certain passages of Scripture that “seemed” to indicate the earth was flat.
“Is the Earth flat or round?” This is a question that was asked by Christians in the Roman Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. Is the Earth Flat or Round_ What the Bible Says About the Shape of the Universe
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