Re: If the earth is round, how to explain the expression "four quarters of the earth"
Think about this one thing. At the North pole continuous light can shine for days, the sun showing at all points of the compass, going round and round. Then at certain times of the year it's dark for days and days. If the earth were flat, it would be the same way for the entire planet, but it ain't.
The axis of the earth is tilted, sometimes at it's farthest point from the sun, and sometimes at its closest point to the sun, but the ice still don't melt with continuous sun. Common sense science, that all people can observe, proves this point. The earth is not a perfect ball, it's actually oval, but it's still round like a ball.
[SUP]Job 26:10 [/SUP]He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
The following is from this website.
https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/taking-back-astronomy/the-universe-confirms-the-bible/
This verse that indicates the spherical nature of our planet. This verse teaches that God has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. This boundary between light and darkness (day and night) is called the “terminator” since the light stops or “terminates” there. Someone standing on the terminator would be experiencing either a sunrise or a sunset; they are going from day to night or from night to day. The terminator is always a circle, because the earth is round.
For the earth, the terminator occurs not on a cratered rocky surface, but primarily on water (since the earth’s surface is 70 percent water). The mentioned biblical passage would be nonsense if the earth were flat, since there would be no true terminator; there is no line to “step over” that separates the day from night on a flat surface. Either it is day everywhere or night everywhere on a hypothetical “flat earth.” However, the earth does indeed have a boundary between light and darkness which is always a circle since the earth is round.
Think about this one thing. At the North pole continuous light can shine for days, the sun showing at all points of the compass, going round and round. Then at certain times of the year it's dark for days and days. If the earth were flat, it would be the same way for the entire planet, but it ain't.
The axis of the earth is tilted, sometimes at it's farthest point from the sun, and sometimes at its closest point to the sun, but the ice still don't melt with continuous sun. Common sense science, that all people can observe, proves this point. The earth is not a perfect ball, it's actually oval, but it's still round like a ball.
[SUP]Job 26:10 [/SUP]He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
The following is from this website.
https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/taking-back-astronomy/the-universe-confirms-the-bible/
This verse that indicates the spherical nature of our planet. This verse teaches that God has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. This boundary between light and darkness (day and night) is called the “terminator” since the light stops or “terminates” there. Someone standing on the terminator would be experiencing either a sunrise or a sunset; they are going from day to night or from night to day. The terminator is always a circle, because the earth is round.
For the earth, the terminator occurs not on a cratered rocky surface, but primarily on water (since the earth’s surface is 70 percent water). The mentioned biblical passage would be nonsense if the earth were flat, since there would be no true terminator; there is no line to “step over” that separates the day from night on a flat surface. Either it is day everywhere or night everywhere on a hypothetical “flat earth.” However, the earth does indeed have a boundary between light and darkness which is always a circle since the earth is round.
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