wrong.

I know you want that to be the case, but there is no scholarly debate here. Everyone is in complete agreement who is competent and has studied the text. This is going back many centuries / arguably millennia.

The biblical view of the world (i.e. universe) is inherited from the hebrew view. They are one and the same.

It is a flat world set immovably/fixed on pillars covered by a firmament with vaults connecting to the waters below and above (which were opened temporarily to flood the world that time).

sauce and feel free to follow the links

You don’t seem to understand what i’m saying, This isn’t an issue of selective translation. There is no weaseling out of it. The world is described as flat in the bible many times, because the people who wrote it believed it was. There is no argument, although i understand why you would like there to be one.

wrong.

I know you want that to be the case, but there is no scholarly debate here. Everyone is in complete agreement who is competent and has studied the text. This is going back many centuries / arguably millennia.

The biblical view of the world (i.e. universe) is inherited from the hebrew view. They are one and the same.

It is a flat world set immovably/fixed on pillars covered by a firmament with vaults connecting to the waters below and above (which were opened temporarily to flood the world that time).

sauce and feel free to follow the links

You don’t seem to understand what i’m saying, This isn’t an issue of selective translation. There is no weaseling out of it. The world is described as flat in the bible many times, because the people who wrote it believed it was. There is no argument, although i understand you would like there to be one.