Is the Bible more consistent with flat earth theory or round earth theory?
1) The Bible is more consistent with flat earth theory. The reason is that the people who wrote the Bible had this conception of the world, which was also the mainstream view of many other neighbouring cultures (Mesopotamia, Egypt). The mainstream view of Greece and Rome as the time where Christianity appeared was the round earth theory. Some early Christian theologians tried without much success to bring back the flat earth model, on the base of the Bible. 2) Nowadays, the overwhelminging view is the round earth theory. However, some religious fundamentalists still consider that everything that the Bible says is true and that it can be taken as a basis for “scientific” knowledge. Well knowing that the flat earth theory is not defendable, those people try then to prove that the Bible never accurately and without doubt said that the earth was flat. 3) “The idea of a flat Earth is that the surface of the Earth is flat (a plane), rather than the view that it is a very close approximation
