“The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world” (Matt. iv, 8).
The science of Geography describes the earth as spherical in form, with a daily revolution on its axis and an annual revolution around the sun. The Bible describes it as stable, flat, and angular.
“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
“The name of the first is Pison” [Indus or Ganges] (Gen. ii, 10, 11).
“And the name of the second river is Gihon [Nile]: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
“And the name of the third river is Hiddekel [Tigris]: ... And the fourth river is Euphrates” (ii, 13, 14).
Bible geography makes the Nile and the Euphrates both branches of the same river.
“Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar” (John iv, 5).
Samaria contained no city of this name.
“These things were done in Bethany beyond Jordan” (John i, 28, New Ver.).