Did the Flat Earth Society misinterpret the Bible?

Samuel Rowbotham supported the notion of a flat Earth, based on literal interpretation of certain biblical passages. After Rowbotham's death in 1884, his followers established the Universal Zetetic Society. In 1956, Samuel Shenton took over the Universal Zetetic Society, which would later become the Flat Earth Society. The Flat Earth Society took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, because the photos of Earth taken from Apollo 8 was spherical and not flat. The Flat Earth Society still exists today under president Daniel Shenton...

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Wikipedia article about the Flat Earth Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society



Medieval Christianity did not believed in a flat earth, but the Hebrew Bible carried forward the ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, which described a flat earth with a solid roof, surrounded by water above and below...



The Biblical references that the Flat Earth Society thinks supports the notion of a flat Earth, because if taken literally, the Bible says the Earth is flat, has four corners, has ends, possibility of falling of the edges of the Earth, about a tree so high that it was visible from any place on Earth, the Earth is set on pillars and cannot move, I personally think the Flat Earth Society misinterpreted the Bible, what do you think?



Isaiah 40:22: He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth...

Isaiah 11:12: ...the four quarters of the earth.

Revelation 7:1: ...I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth...

Job 38:13: ...that it might take the earth by the edges...

Jeremiah 16:19: ...the nations will come from the ends of the earth...

Daniel 4:11: The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.

Psalm 93:1 and Psalm 96:10: ...the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved...

Psalm 104:5: He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.

Job 9:6: He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.

Job 38:4: "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

Job 37:3: He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.

Job 28:24: for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

1 Samuel 2:8: For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them he has set the world.

Sources:

Wikipedia article about the flat Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

The Flat-Earth Bible: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htmDid the Flat Earth Society misinterpret the Bible?
Yes. Anybody who tries to read the Bible as 100% literal, will always misinterpret it.Did the Flat Earth Society misinterpret the Bible?
No, the earth is a Triangle surrounded by a Rhombus supported by a Trapezoid. Of course the Bible doesn't say the earth is flat. In the 4th Century BC the Greek's missed the circumference of the earth by a few hundred miles.



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