The Sphericity of the Earth in Christianity

{Forwarded Message}

Imām al-Haramayn (d. 478) describes a spherical Earth when he said “There is no difference of opinion that the sun sets for a certain group of people while it rises for another, and the night is longer for some and shorter for others, but at the equator; night and day are equal.”

Originally sent: 1/16/2025 6:56 AM

The scientific miracle in the Holy Bible (The Earth is flat and not spherical):

New International Version: He sits enthroned above the #circle of the earth

New Living Translation: God sits above the #circle of the earth.

English Standard Version:It is he who sits above the circle of the earth

Treasury of ScriptureIn the manuscript

It is he that sits on the #circle of the earth,

the circle

The word in Hebrew means circle, not ball

#ח֣וּג (ḥūḡ)

(ḥūḡ)

Noun - masculine singular construct

Strong’s Hebrew 2329: Vault, horizon

Which caused embarrassment in translating it like this, so the translators were forced to translate it as ball to prove a miracle that it does not have and to lie and mislead Christians, then they claim that the Qur’an says that the earth is flat

. Al-Hayat Translation 22: Indeed, it is he who sits on the #circle of the earth, the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts.

Catholic - Dar Al Mashreq 22: He is sitting on the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts.

Van Dyke22: He who sits on the #sphere of the earth The earth and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers

The Hebrew word in the picture in the post… and the same translator translated it

as a circle in another place Why is he deceiving if ח֝֗וּג (ḥūḡ) is not equal to Kad (kad·dūr) The Hebrew word used in the text https://biblehub.com/hebrew/strongs_2329.htm … Isaiah 40:22 HEB: הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ NAS: above the #circle of the earth, KJV: [It is] he that sitteth upon the #circle of the earth, INT: sits above the #circle of the earth inhabitants ********************************************* When we confronted them with this distortion in the translation, they said that the word ball and circle are the same in the Hebrew language, but see, is ball really equal to Circle in Hebrew??? כַּדּ֕וּר (kad·dūr) == ball ח֝֗וּג (ḥūḡ) does not equal כַּדּ֕וּר (kad·dūr) the Hebrew word used in the text https://biblehub.com/hebrew/strongs_2329.htm … Isaiah 40:22 HEB: הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ NAS: Above the #circle of the earth, KJV: [It is] he that sitteth upon the #circle of the earth, INT: sits above the #circle of the earth inhabitants

Other evidence that the Bible says the Earth is flat.

There is a beautiful number that caught my attention in the Bible

(Matthew 4:8): “Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.”

The Bible says that Satan took Christ, peace be upon him, to this higher generation and showed him all the kingdoms of the world.

First, he can never see all the kingdoms of the world from a high mountain because a person cannot see the kingdoms of the world from the top of any mountain.

Even if you go to the top of Everest, which is the highest peak in the world,

you will not see all the kingdoms of the world

. How can a person see all the kingdoms of the world by simply standing on a mountain?

Second, he can never see all the kingdoms of the world except in one case:

that the Earth is flat

because we know that the Earth is spherical and a person cannot see all of it. The faces on the ball,

especially if it is a ball the size of the Earth

, then a person cannot see all the kingdoms if he is on a mountain because the Earth is spherical and not flat, so this is an impossible possibility

(Revelation 7:1): “And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH” (

the four corners of the Earth )

According to the English version

of the Book of Revelation, Chapter 7, Verse 1 Revelation 7:1

And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS

OF THE EARTH

FOUR CORNERS, meaning the four sides of the earth or its four corners,

because the Lord’s are the pillars of the earth, and He has placed the world on it - 1 Samuel 8-2

And in the English version

King James Version: Isaiah Chapter 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.

The English text says the circle of the earth, but it was translated to the sphere of the earth.

I do not care what the translator meant when he translated it from circle to sphere.

What is important is that the text says the circle of the earth.

Looking at the previous numbers and with this number, if the Christian believes that there is no contradiction

in the Bible, then both verses are correct according to his belief.

But if his words are correct and both numbers are correct, then the earth is flat and square

and at the same time circular (not spherical),

then we have no solution except for the shape of the earth in the Bible to be

The church saint “John Chrysostom” decided that the Bible categorically denies the sphericity of the earth and the sky in turn, saying: “Where are those who say that the sky moves? Where are those who preach that (the sky) has the shape of a circle? Both sayings have been invalidated here.”

This is the same thing that Bishop Severian, who was close to Chrysostom, decided in his book: “Six Discourses on the Creation of the World” in his literal interpretation of what came in the Book of Genesis.

He wrote that the earth is flat and the sun does not pass under it at night, but rather travels through the northern parts as if it were hidden by a wall, and he cited many texts from the Old Testament.

Diodorus - Bishop of Tarsus in the fourth century - also prevailed in rejecting the saying that the earth is spherical”, which is also what Theodore the Antiochian interpreter, Bishop of Mopsuestia, announced at the beginning of the fifth century!

The church strongly opposed the saying that the earth is spherical; The most prominent expression of its doctrine was the book written by Lactantius at the beginning of the fourth century: “The Divine Institutions,” in which he condemned in the third chapter the belief in the sphericity of the Earth. In it, he mocked the notion that there are people on the other side of the earth living upside down .

----- … The earth, and this is theoretically impossible except in one case, which is that the earth is flat. We read in the Book of Daniel 4:10 And the visions of my head upon my bed are these: I looked, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great. 11 And the tree grew and became strong, and its height reached to heaven, and its sight reached to the end of the whole earth. This vision reflects the ancient concept that if a person rose much above the earth, he would see all the dry land, because the earth is a flat disk . The Bible clearly states that the earth has four corners, which prevents the concept of its sphericity! And it gathers the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth Isaiah 11:12 The establishment of the edges geometrically establishes the four corners. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth Revelation 7:1 And he goes out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth Revelation 20:8

Before patching it up that the corners are the four directions, commentator William Barclay comments on the text of Revelation 7:1-3, saying, “This vision is expressed in ideas about the universe that were common at the time John was writing. The earth is square and flat, and at its four corners are four angels waiting to send forth the wind of destruction.

​There is no reference to the four directions: north, south, east, and west, by linking them in terms of employment to the phrase “the four corners” #Continued

If we use the interpretive principle that the Bible interprets the Bible, it will be clear that the phrase: “the four corners of the earth” refers to a flat earth with four corners, certainly not spherical. #End A

picture of the earth drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1983 with references to the texts of the Bible, in which the earth appears flat in shape and has four corners with four angels standing on it.

Saint [Aphram the Syrian], the greatest of the Syriac fathers and one of the greatest interpreters of the Bible, categorically rejected the claim that the earth is spherical, like all the fathers, considering that this conflicts with the facts of the Bible.

Reverend Dr. Hanna Girgis Al-Khudary admits that: The Bible contradicts scientific facts in many matters, including the claim that the earth is flat, and the Arabic translation that says [the one sitting on the sphere of the earth] is an inaccurate translation, and the correct translation is [the one sitting on the #circle of the earth]. This is an admission that the Bible asserts the flatness of the earth.

The sphericity of the Earth is explicitly mentioned in the Bible, and it speaks of God (sitting on the sphere of the Earth).

I am sorry that the translation is distorted, as the Hebrew word (Hoch) does not mean (ball) but rather circle… what is meant is that God is sitting on the circle of the Earth’s horizon… on its ceiling. In

your hands are 3 places where the word appears in the Bible,

twice of which they translated it (circle)… and in the third (ball).

The Bistrat translation translates it as (dome of the Earth), as does the joint Arabic translation… and all respectable translations that respect their readers.”