The "Circle of the Earth"

What the verse tells me is that the biblical author of Isiah looked at physical phenomena through the lens of what was understood during his age. It has been argued that the idea six day creation was not affected by the lack of scientific knowledge during biblical times but rather an infallible truth sent down by God and written down almost verbatim. If it can be shown that mistakes were made in reference to natural phenomena because of understandable ignorance due to lack of knowledge, then the six day creation can be understood in that light. To me, the six day creation is an allegory for the relationship between the Christian/Jewish God and his people. We should learn moral lessons from it, but not apply it to things which are easily refuted through scienctific inquiry.[This message has been edited by Loudmouth, 11-10-2003]

The top of a stool is a circle and you sit on that, don't you? Make that stool really big and you can stretch a canopy over it, set up tents, and watch grasshoppers jump on it, could you not?Hmmm, moon is a disc, sun is a disc, Earth must be a disc. Not that hard to understand why the Earth would be called a circle instead of a sphere. I don't think it proves or disproves the validity of Isiah's God, just the weakness of a literal translation of the biblical text when it is obvious that it is wrong in specific description but perhaps not wrong in overall connotation.