If the Bible gets something wrong. Why blame us when we point it out ?

The Bible repeatedly mentions the "four corners of the Earth." But I can't get any of our resident bible thumpers to say whether or not a four-cornered object is an accurate representation of the Earth. It's a simple yes or no question they keep ducking.


Here's a short four corners list:

Isaiah 11:12 — And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Rev 7:1 — And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Rev 20:8 — And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Ezekiel 7:2 — Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.


This can't happen on a spherical Earth!

Matt 4:8 — Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;


Then we've got "ends of the Earth" all over the place, like

Proverbs 30:4 —
Who hath bound the waters in a garment?
Who hath established all the ends of the earth?

Job 37:3 — He directeth it under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

If we're living on a sphere, we're never going to reach any "end of the Earth," so surely we shouldn't take passages like this literally, right??

Make a point

Because it's very complex and has been revised multiple times. Nobody knows for sure what's meant as literal or metaphor. It was also initially written in Latin, which is a dead language so it probably has been poorly translated on top of that.

I mean, you can't really blame them. They've chosen a worldview where if one little thing in the Bible is inaccurate, their entire belief system falls apart. It's incredibly fragile. So they have to attack every challenge vigorously (this is not how everyone who believes in the God of the Bible approaches the Bible, but this is how the group you're describing does).

There is a place in Spain called Finistere.

It is so called because when people first came there, they saw a cliff and oceans seas, and water as far as they could see.

They called it Finistere because they thought it was the physical end of the land they called their world.

This was the settled view until they discovered more.

Science has settled views until they discover more. If we waited for the final answer from Science, we would probably die before we got it. So we have learned that the scientific method produces results, that although not final, are safe to implement.

And Religion is still uncovering things about the various Gods and Their interactions with people. through the Studies of many people in many different fields.

Knowledge, Spirituality and the Human Race are continually evolving.

Bats aren’t birds, clams aren’t fish and the sun doesn’t circle the earth. Ask Galileo.

I think people just don’t know what you want them to do with that information. Because like how are they supposed to respond? They still believe in the Bible, regardless. And you still don’t! So like….lol

The four corners of the earth are compass points North South East and West. The ends of the earth refers to the Whole earth. The Bible was originally written in Hebrew Aramaic and Greek. The Latin Vulgate was a translation.

You haven't in modern usage heard people use that terminology?

It is a fairly common term.

The Bible pisses a lot of people off I get it. But if you don’t believe in it, don’t let it piss you off. It’s just a random book to you right? Who cares what other people are believing about it.

Shall we pick apart the Quran next tho? Lol

No specifics.. just a statement..

They do the same to me, or they call me stupid for seeing it.

Of course, the smart Christians just say it was an error by the humans writing it down...