Biblical Evidence for the Flat Earth | Part 1

The King James Version (KJV) is mostly used in these lessons. Click here to access the KJV online.

The Earth is stationary:

• Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. (1 Chronicles 16:30, KJV)
   
• Yahuwah reigneth, He is clothed with majesty; Yahuwah is clothed with strength, wherewith He hath girded Himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. (See Psalm 93:1.)
   
• Say among the heathen that Yahuwah reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: He shall judge the people righteously. (See Psalm 96:10.)
   
• Bless Yahuwah, O my soul. O Yahuwah my Elohim, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. . . . Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. (See Psalm 104:1, 5.)

The Earth and the heavenly bodies are enclosed by the firmament:

And Elohim said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And Elohim made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And Elohim called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (See Genesis 1:6-8.)

Here, we find that Yahuwah created the expanse of the heavens by separating "the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament."  It could not be any clearer; there is water both below the firmament and above the firmament. 

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. (Psalm 148:4, KJV)

According to Genesis 1:6-8, there is water both below the firmament and above the firmament.

The word translated as "firmament" here is H7549:

H7549 - râqı̂ya‛
BDB Definition:
1) extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament
1a) expanse (flat as base, support)
1b) firmament (of vault of heaven supporting waters above)
1b1) considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting ‘waters’ above

Note BDB's recognition that the firmament refers to the "vault of heaven supporting waters above," and adds that it was "considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting ‘waters’ above."

The root of H7549 (râqı̂ya‛) is H7554 (râqa‛), which is defined by Strong's as:

"A primitive root; to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication to overlay (with thin sheets of metal): —beat, make broad, spread abroad (forth, over, out, into plates), stamp, stretch" -Strong's Concordance

The firmament that holds back the waters above appears from its root word to be solid, as if hammered out like a sheet of metal. 

Scripture goes on to state that that the heavenly bodies were placed inside this firmament.

And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it was good. (See Genesis 1:14-18.)

Scripture states in plain language that:
(1) There is water both below the firmament and above the firmament. (See Genesis 1:6-8.)
(2) The heavenly bodies were placed inside the firmament. (See Genesis 1:14-18.)