No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat. One came up with the idea for dramatic purposes the other did so quite maliciously for the specific purpose of slandering and discrediting Christianity: The notion that people thought it was was invented almost simultaneously, but apparently independently, by two 19th-century authors. The idea of a flat earth is not found in the Bible or in ancient Christian thought. That's not possible on a flat earth model. This is quite a difference from, for example, the Greek idea of Earth supported upon Atlas's shoulders, or the Hindu notion of Earth resting upon the back of an elephant which stands on the back of a turtle which swims in a vast ocean.Īlso, Luke 17:31-36 speaks of people being taken away into heaven at (or before, but that's a matter for a different question) the time of the Second Coming, and states that some will be taken at night, and some in the daytime, even though it's supposed to happen all at once. In addition to Isaiah 40:22, which Ashansky pointed out, there's also Job 26: 7, which states that the earth is hung "upon nothing".
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