"The Bible says the Earth is flat" argument

Some self proclaimed atheists and Muslims will try to attack The Bible and thus Christianity by claiming The Bible states that the Earth is flat, well as you are probably aware of the Earth is round, as your can see in the picture to the left.

Enemies of Christ use many different Scripture verses to try to prove their point, some are as follows.






1.) Isaiah 11:12 

According to the NIV this passage reads "He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth."  The Hebrew word for "Earth" is "erets" according to Strong's Hebrew, this word could also be translated "Land" reading "He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the land" if the text is in  Hebrew this is at least a possibility. 

2.)Job 38:12-13 
This text reads ""Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, 2that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?" The word "The edges" can also be translated "The ends" and can anyone with knowledge of science doubt that the Earth has ends? 




3.)Jeremiah 16:19
states "O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, "Our fathers possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good" but the word used in the Hebrew text is "erets" which can mean land or feild, along with other word. The text may also be written "O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the land and say, "Our fathers possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good" The land may be Israel, tmany nations seem to be coming to repentance. 

4.)Daniel 4:11 according to the NIV reads "The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth." Two points may be made, firstly in its context it is king Nebuchadnezzar speaking, he is capible of being scientifically incorrect, furthermore he is telling his dream/vision to Belteshazzar and visions don't need to correspond with the natural world and in fact they often don't, as they are symbolic much of the time. In its context the King of Babylonian said "I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me. ¹⁰ These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous. ¹¹ The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth. ¹² Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed. ¹³ “In the visions I saw while lying in bed, I looked, and there before me was a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven. ¹⁴ He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches. ¹⁵ But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field."-Daniel 4:9-15. (Click here to read the verse in context.)

5.)Matthew 4:8, states according to the NIV "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor." for one responce to this, you can read the article on http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/q13.htm.