Um..no the bible doesn't teach the earth was flat. This is basically "man's interpretation of holy scriptures because he doesn't understand what 4 corners of the earth means!" These are simple idioms in language that can easily be misinterpreted when converting from one language "Hebrew to Greek, English, etc." The number 4 in relation to this stands for the compass directions of the earth as well as the 4 regions of the earth just like we have 4 seasons. C'mon Jay Rob, you know better than this bro!
I wasn't referring to that verse by any means. The bible is taken from several older cultures. As neighbors, the ancient Hebrews had the Egyptians to the southwest and the Babylonians to the northeast. Both civilizations had flat-earth cosmologies. The Biblical cosmology closely parallels the Sumero-Babylonian cosmology, and it may also draw upon Egyptian cosmology.
Nowhere does the bible teach that the sun is the center of the universe and no culture at that time did either.
No culture taught a heliocentric model until the Europeans came on the scene merely 400 years ago. Now where they got it from, who knows.
There are dozens of bible verses that refer to the flat earth geocentric model with a
stationary earth being the center of that model along with a firmament dome.
Here are some of those verses:
--Job 22:14 (HCSB) Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see, as He walks on the
circle of the sky.
--And God said, Let be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
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:
Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Amos 9:6 (NASB) The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,
Psalm 93:1 The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. (stationary earth)
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. (geocentric model)
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. (geocentric model)
There are more verses but this will suffice. The bible teaches the flat earth model with a stationary earth. If one believes differently, then they're in essence calling their god a liar or at the least, ignorant of his own creation.
