I reckon this came before the internet.
Job 26:7, 10 "7 He stretches out the north over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.
...
10 He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,
At the boundary of light and darkness."
"He hangs the earth on nothing." Sounds like a pretty good description of how the earth floats (using that term loosely here) through space, orbiting the sun.
By the way, I don't think it was answered before, but how far down does the earth go? Does it have anything underneath it? If we were to dig a deep enough hole, would we get through to the other side?
Doesn't sound like something you could hang on nothing.
As for verse 10, "circular horizon ... at the boundary of light and darkness" implies that the boundary of light and darkness is at the horizon. The flat earth model doesn't fit this verse, as the horizon (as Dave I think mentioned earlier when he described how the Sun and Moon would be above the earth on a flat model) would be much farther out than the boundary between light and darkness, in direct contradiction to that verse. The flat earth model is UNBIBLICAL, whereas it has been explained that verses using the word "circle" don't mean a flat circle, but mean a sphere, as a sphere looks like a circle from any direction (which also kind of ties in to God's ability to be anywhere He wants to be, His omnipresence, in Isaiah 40:22 "He sits above the circle of the earth.")
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