There are 2 places in the Bible that can be interpreted (by squinting at just the right translation) as saying that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. This point of geology is made by counting Genesis periods (“days” in most English translations) and lifetimes in the (assumed complete) genealogies (in which “months” and “years” are regularly cross-translated).
A point that the Bible makes more often and more clearly is that the world is flat. Yep, if you believe in the inerrancy of Bible, then the world is flat. The moon landing hoax conspiracy theory actually got its start from the Flat Earth Society (http://theflatearthsociety.org [1], or Here is a flat earth site [2] that Google likes better).
Anyway, this is about the pure truth of the Bible with links to the 12 cited passages:
- Dn.4:11 [3]: The tree grew, and it became strong enough and tall enough to reach the sky. It could be seen everywhere on earth.
(Describe a shape from all points of which a vertical line can be seen) - Dn.2:35 [4] Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
(Describe a solid shape that another object can completely cover by expanding its size without deforming) - Dn.4:20 [5] You saw an oak tree grow and become strong enough and tall enough to reach the sky. It could be seen everywhere on earth.
(Describe a solidshape from all points of which a vertical line can be seen) - Is.40:22 [6]: It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
(Describe a shape on which one might stand and look up at all points to see a stretched canvas that contains the stars, planets, etc) - Ez.7:2 [7] And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
(The Earth has 4 corners. Draw it in 3 dimensions) - Mt.4:8 [8] Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
(Describe a shape of which all points can be seen by rising arbitrarily high above it) - 1_Chr.16:30 [9] Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
(Fixed Earth, unlike the claims of heretics like Copernicus and Galileo) - Ps.96:10 [10] Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.
(Clearly, that the Earth is stationary and fixed is an unquestioned assumption here)
Ps.104:5 [11] He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
(The Earth is stationary and fixed on a solid set of mountings) - Job.9:6 [12] Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:
(But those pillars on which the Earth sits can be shaken by the right fella) - 1_Sam.2:8 [13] He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.
(The Earth must rest solidly on its pillars) - Job.38:4-6 [14] Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,
(Given the truth of a flat Earth resting on pillars that in turn rest on foundations, the question is, “Who laid those foundations?”)
So, you can see that if you accept the weak Biblical evidence the the Earth is young, you certainly must accept that it is flat, immobile, four-cornered, and resting on pillars under a canopy.
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