Though hindsight is always 20/20, the question of the earth’s shape deserves an investigation, as we seek to glorify the Lord with our minds. At that point, the church, teaching that the earth was “flat,” was given a bad reputation that many still remember when discussing the Age of Enlightenment that began in the late seventeenth century and continued through the early nineteenth century. It took a man such as Christian scientist Galileo Galilei to discover by way of the telescope that the earth was round, not flat. In reality, though, the earth is round, and the church didn’t take time then to consider that its view of the earth’s shape was erroneous. The church believed the earth was flat because of certain passages of Scripture that “seemed” to indicate the earth was flat. “Is the Earth flat or round?” This is a question that was asked by Christians in the Roman Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. Is the Earth Flat or Round_ What the Bible Says About the Shape of the Universe
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