As we have traveled across the US this past year we’ve had the misfortune to come across several flat-earthers in the churches we have visited. They all maintained that the Bible teaches that the earth was flat. No, this false idea is not taught in Scripture and here is why:
(1) Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the common sense comparison being with a spherical sun and moon.
(2) By 250 B.C. the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes had already measured the 25,000-mile circumference of the earth and we can assume that this information was known by the New Testament writers.
(3) Revelation 7:1 refers to angels standing at the four corners of the earth but the four corners are actually a reference to the four cardinal directions: North, South, East & West.
(4) Bible writers used the language of appearance just like we do when we refer to the Sun rising and setting. If they didn’t it would make for some awkward reading. We can have full confidence that when the Bible touches on scientific subjects it is completely accurate.