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Why do many Christians believe that the world is at?
The facts of history, science, church history, and the Bible are consistent with the view that the earth is a sphere (circular) orbiting the sun. But some Christians believe they have a special revelation that our planet is flat. Social media plays a role in popularising the philosophy, claiming that NASA has lied about nearly Isaiah 40:22 says, Proverbs 8:27-29 says, when He marked out the foundations of the earth. The phrase appears 28 times in the Bible, and Revelation 7:1 and 20:7-8 mention that the earth has four corners. Most people recognise that these are idiomatic expressions referring to the remotest parts of the earth. It would be well to heed the counsel in 2 Timothy 2:22,23 to
