viaro:
It seems Nairaland is fast becoming a joke in this section. .  but let's laugh on all the same.

Abuzola, you're trying too hard at something very simple. The Bible does not teach your categorical duplicity, and here's how to sort out the misunderstanding you're cementing against your chest.


The Four Corners of the Earth

(1) The phrase "four corners of the earth" is not meant as a literal implication of a flat earth. That phrase is commonly used in reference to all parts of the earth - regardless of their cardinal points. This was clearly intended in the contexts of the verses you quoted from the Bible, especially when you compare the first two passages (Isaiah 11:12 and Revelation 7:1) with the third (Daniel 4:11). In the third instance, the meaning is clearly spelt out - "the ends of all the earth", which is no less the same as all parts of the earth.

(2) Other expressions are used in the Bible to refer to the same thing when speaking in reference to all the parts of the earth. Some examples include:

[list]All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee - Psalm 22:27[/list]

[list]He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God - Psalm 98:3[/list]

Abuzola: 'whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him and in the Hereafter he will be among the losers' Quran 3:85

Superego:
The Earth is Egg Shaped: NASA Validates Quran, Ancient Scripture



Modern science has discovered and to some, confirmed that the earth is egg shaped. Other synonyms for its unique shape are, ovoid, pear shaped or piriform.

On the NASA government website we see this description:
Exactly how round is the Earth?

The shape of the Geode, as it is called, is nearly a perfect sphere, but because the earth is spinning, it is about 21.5 kilometers flatter at the poles, and bulged-out at the equator by about the same amount. There are also other ‘higher-order’ shape deviations which make the Earth slightly pear- shaped with a larger southern hemisphere surface area than in the northern hemisphere, but at a level of a kilometer or so in radial girth. The biggest effect, though, is its polar flattening. If you had a basketball to represent the Earth’s spherical average shape, the flattening would be 21/6500 = about 1/300 the radius of the basketball or 1/32 of an inch…give or take. From NASA: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11818.html

The Muslim holy book, the Quran, stated this explicitly 1400 years ago:

Chapter/Sura 79:30, that is Sura Naziyat Aya 30 reads in Arabic ” WAL ARDS BAID ZALIKA DOHAHA”.

Ostrich egg

Now I will write word by word meaning of this Aya

WAL means AND

ARDA means EARTH

BAID means AFTER

ZALIKA means THAT

DOHAHA MEANS EGG SHAPED THING

Now see the English translation of the Sura 79:30 “And the earth , moreover, hath he extended in egg shape.”

The origin of the verb, “Dohaha,” is found in the word (Ud-hiya), which means “egg of ostrich” -wikipedia
Geodesy(Study of the shape of earth)

It is important to note that over time, people and science have had varying views of the shape of the earth. These have ranged from flat, to round, to spherical, to oval, to oblate spheroid or ellipsoid. Needless to say, many have been entangled in the web of wrong descriptions. However not surprisingly some spiritual books had the peculiar shape dead right from the start.

It is important at this point to differentiate spherical, from ellipsoid/oblate spherical and then from egg shaped or pear shaped ovoid.

It was actually way back in 1958 that U.S. satellite Vanguard 1 discovered the Earth’s pear shape.

earh-egg-shaped

“By the 16th century people were convinced that the Greeks were nuts and the Earth was actually an oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. The French didn’t agree. They went one better. They suspected the earth was an egg (again?) and in 1736 the French Academy of Sciences sent two expeditions, one to Lapland and one to Ecuador, to settle the question of the Earth’s shape once and for all. Their findings were close, but not exactly conclusive.

We now know from the latest scientific evidence and NASA’s satellite data that the Earth is indeed an ovoid, give or take a few bumps. So back to the egg. After all those years and a few billion dollars down the gurgler we have discovered what the ancients already knew 6000 years ago.

The Earth is slightly flattened at the poles. Its equatorial diameter is 45 km (28 miles) longer than its polar diameter. But wait, that’s not all. As well as being generally ovoid, the Earth also has a vertical pear-shaped asymmetry, the north pole being 48 m (148 ft) further from the equatorial plane than the south pole.” The “pointy end of the egg “, so to speak, is at about 37° west longitude (400 km off the eastern tip of Brazil) where the equator’s longer axis is 159 m (522 ft) greater than its short axis. The “fat” end is just north of east Papua New Guinea. Source

lead.org.au

The earth is actually more egg than pear shaped. This is because a pear has concavities, while an egg does not. The earth does not have concavities.

More resources that describe the pear or egg shaped earth as it is now known:

http://ntrs.larc.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19660028058&qs=N%3D4294928546

http://www.josleys.com/htmlgalleries/globe/Piriforme3.JPG

http://mostodd./2011/06/13/144-gone-pear-shaped/

http://www.finedictionary.com/pear-shaped.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth

http://www.1worldglobes.com/globe-teach-planet-earth.htm

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Interestingly, NASA also describes the moon as egg shaped:

http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/moonfacts.html
+ The moon is not round, but egg shaped with the large end pointed towards earth.

The Muslim Quran further describes the earth spread out like a carpet. This is said to describe the the tectonic plates, above the magma. These plates are like a carpet on which people walk and travel.

Quran 71:19 “‘And Allah has made the earth for you as a carpet (spread out), 20 “‘That ye may go about therein, in spacious roads.’”

It is arguably beneficial for scriptural folk to hold on firmly to their beliefs, as after a merry go round, science usually gets to the point they were at. This is just one more example where science has come back to the point where the Muslim Quran was at.

It is arguably beneficial for scriptural folk to hold on firmly to their beliefs, as after a merry go round, science usually gets to the point they were at. This is just one more example where science has come back to the point where the Muslim Quran was at.

Source: http://againstscience.com/2013/06/21/the-earth-is-egg-shaped-nasa-validates-quran-ancient-scripture/#more-321

Read more: http://newsrescue.com/the-earth-is-egg-shaped-nasa-validates-quran-ancient-scripture/#ixzz2Wvw8fdK4

Empiree:
I dey enjoy this nau. These kufar think Qur'an says earth is flat without proper understanding of the verses.

Empiree:
You just threading. You have no idea what you quoted. Qur'an doesn't say earth is flat. I posted on this here https://www.nairaland.com/2153126/top-ten-signs-youre-fundamentalist/2#down

true2god:
The link you provided has no relevance to the topic at hand.

Daninya11:
One major reason I don't contribute much in this religious section is the high number of ignoramus claiming to be authorities in religious matters and they don't know a jerk about it..
Islam started around 620 bc when we have had great Greek scholars like socrates, aristotle, Plato who were men with brilliant minds..
The bible is infallible - without errors..

Abuzola:
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Al- Quran 79:30


“And the earth, moreover, Hath He made egg shaped.”



The Arabic word for egg here is dahaha, which means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur’aan correctly describes the shape of the earth, though the prevalent notion when the Qur’aan was revealed was that the earth is flat


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Isaiah 11:12 
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. (KJV)



Revelation 7:1
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (KJV) 


Daniel 4:11
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the ENDS OF ALL THE EARTH: (KJV) 

Matthew 4:8
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; (KJV) 

Ndipe:
Isaiah 40:22 says

"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in."

Hence, the Holy Bible says the earth is round and not flat.

Empiree:
why did you revived this thread na

Ndipe:
It needs a revival to correct the misconception some people hold against The Holy Bible.

Empiree:
Holy Bible?, really?. Well, that's a talk for another day. Point is, the theory of flat earth came from Christians proponents of the flat earth theory.

Ndipe:
And where is your proof? I have shown you evidence of a round earth theory mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.