"The Bible says the Earth is flat." - Not Quite

In response to my "Bring it Atheists" article, Mark made the statement "The Bible says the Earth is flat." He used Daniel 4:11 as his reference. While I have heard many people make this claim before I have never heard anyone use this verse as a reference, so I was definitely intrigued.

It didn't take long at all for me to realize how faulty his argument was. If you simply read the verse before it you realize that someone is describing a dream.

Daniel 4: 10 (YLT) As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height [is] great: 11 become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

If you start at the beginning of the chapter, you'll realize the dream was that of a pagan king named Nebuchadnezzar.

How anyone can take a quote taken from a pagan king describing something he saw in a dream and use it to claim that the bible says the earth is flat is beyond me.

Bring it Atheists

I stopped writing articles concerning religion on OurTakes and started this blog because that site was getting flooded with debate between Christians and Atheists. That wasn't the point of the OurTakes website, so I decided to start a site where I can just answer questions about the bible and Atheist attacks on its authenticity.

One hurdle I didn't really consider was traffic. While Ourtakes has visitors, readers, and active posters, this little blog doesn't. So, I am writing this article as a challenge to Atheists out there. Post your questions, contradictions and problems with the bible here so I, and some of the Christian readers here, can try to answer them.

Atheists, this is your chance to show us why we are wrong. I know many of the posters on Netscape er... Propeller should jump at this opportunity.

Do you really seek the truth as you claim?

What issues do you have with Christianity being true?

I don't claim to have all the answers to the questions that will be asked. I probably don't know the answers to most of them. I really would like to study and find them. Atheists are skeptics, I am also a skeptic. I naturally question most things I hear and am told. But, I am skeptic that believes in Jesus.

1 Peter 3:15b (YLT)
And [be] ready always for defense to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that [is] in you, with meekness and fear;