Does taking the Bible literally mean believing the earth is flat? It’s a question more Christians are asking than you might expect, and the passages people point to are real: God laying the earth’s foundations, stretching out the heavens like a tent, describing the “circle of the earth.” Wes and Marcus sit with a listener’s question about flat earth theology and what it means for how we read Scripture. They talk about ancient Near Eastern cosmology, the difference between poetic and scientific language, and how conviction about a hyperliteral reading can become its own kind of danger.
What do you do when someone insists a plain reading of the Bible requires rejecting what you can observe with your own eyes? And what does it mean to take Scripture seriously without demanding it answer questions it was never written to address?
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