> Luke Howison wrote: He also stated that,
> people who think the Bible says the Earth is flat, are silly because of this
> passage's "circle of the earth".
>
> > ...Which is also the only place in the KJV that the word circle
> > appears. So the earth has four corners and is a circle. Obviously
> > they thought the earth was shaped like a cylinder, eh? spike
>
> Last time I counted, cylinders don't have any corners at all. More of a
> screwed-up sphere perhaps? :-)
Ye of little faith, Luke! A cylinder viewed perpendicular to the axis
would appear as a rectangle, complete with four corners. Viewed
on axis, a circle. Its all in how you look at it. After I looked at all
the references someone was patient enough to post, I am convinced
most of the biblical writers thought of the earth as flat. spike
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