Is the EARTH on PILLARS? Can you see all the EARTH from a TALL TREE?

The Bibles says yes to both of these things. Is the Bible wrong? Or is anything that we think is wrong simply "figurative" writing not to be taken literally?



Job 9:6

Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.





Daniel 4:11

The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ENDS OF ALL THE EARTH: (KJV)Is the EARTH on PILLARS? Can you see all the EARTH from a TALL TREE?
Yeah, they probably could see all that they thought was the world from a tall tree. It was the Bronze Age, whaddya expect?



Christians have difficulty understanding the concept that these people were primitive and knew practically nothing beyond their difficult, dirty, little lives.
The bible is here speaking in poetic terms.Is the EARTH on PILLARS? Can you see all the EARTH from a TALL TREE?
It's usually either "out of context" or "not literal"... But then, how do they know which parts ARE meant to be literal?
Job poetically speaks of the earth shaking on pillars as a metaphor. Many scholars think this was a common expression concerning earthquakes. Note Jobs personal knowledge of our solar system and what supports the earth in Job 26:7, "He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing."



Daniel 4:11 refers to events in a DREAM.



Added: I suppose "Job's personal knowledge" may be a bit too much to say. I restate that Job 26:7 mentions that the earth is held by nothing.



Concerning the circle of the earth. The ancient words in Hebrew according to scholars I have read, can be translated sphere and may very well have that as a more natural meaning.



Concerning "four corners" This is an ancient term for the major points of a compass North, South, East, and West and do not necessarily mean corners as in flat or square.



Thanks again for asking and pointing out my statement that was partially in error.Is the EARTH on PILLARS? Can you see all the EARTH from a TALL TREE?
Job 9 - very clearly - indicates that the Earth **has** pillars - not that it is *on* pillars. I'm guessing that during an earthquake, not only the Earth shakes but also "the pillars thereof".



Dan 11 addressed in a previous answer. How can you not recognize that this is a dream, with a dream tree from which a dreaming person can see the entirety of a dream Earth?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea鈥?/a>



Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com
The bible speaks in figurative language at times about the earth and this is the case here, The bible says the earth has pillars. These pillars are the earth's tectonic plates, that figuratively stand up from the earth's crust. Job 9"6



The tree vision of king Nebuchadnezzar figuratively represents God's kingdom of the heavens.



When the bible speaks of the earth having edges it is saying to the extremities in any one direction from where a person may be, not that it has literal edges. Men today may use this same terminology by saying traveling to the ends of the earth. But this is not taken literally.



The bible does say that the earth is a circle or spherical. The bible word translated circle also means a sphere. But when you look at a sphere it is a circle.



The bible does not say that the earth does not move. It states that it is established or founded. This is true because it has a well established place in the solar system as it orbits around the sun and nothing will remove it from its established place. Then too, when a bible verse speaks of not the planet as a whole but to its land masses as earth, it simply means that the earth's crust is well establish, globally, into it's molten mantle. Nothing will impede this process. While bible writers may not have understood everything about what they were inspired to record nor about the nature of the earth, the creator did.