The Flat Earth Myth and the Bible

[George]

 

[sheya joie]

Thanks for posting that. One of my more recent thoughts about evidence for a spherical earth is star trails. In the Northern hemisphere, the star trails make concentric arcs around the North Star, and in the Southern hemisphere, the trails make the same sort of arcs around a point in the sky directly above the South Pole. This could not happen on a flat earth!

[patrick jane]

What a joke of a video.

[B3L13v3R]

Well informed article on the subject, just watched it with the family. Thanks George.

This is a link they mentioned in the 28 minute video:
https://creation.com/the-flat-earth-myth-and-creationism

Snip:

"History of the flat-earth myth

The story that Christians believed in a flat earth until Columbus’ time, and for some time thereafter, began as part of a fictional story that was elevated to historical fact by late 19th-century Darwinists who used it primarily as a means to ridicule Christians.
  The spherical shape of the earth was known to the ancient Greeks, who even made some good estimates of its circumference and, contrary to the claims of the flat-earth myth perpetuators, was never lost. One well-known example is Eratosthenes who measured the earth’s diameter fairly accurately in the 3rd century BC. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference using geometry to within 3.5% of the true value.1 The ancient Greek experimenters knew its shape by evaluating a variety of evidences, including the earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse and the changing sky as one travels northward and southward."

I recall hearing this Irving myth in public school years ago in a "history book" emphasis mine:

"... The myth that the Church ‘condemned as heretics all who claimed that the earth was round’ was ‘invented by two fabulists working separately: Antoine-Jean Letronne, an anticlerical 19th-century Frenchman, and Washington Irving. The 19th-century American writer Washington Irving was actually the first major promulgator of the flat-earth myth. In his very unreliable biography of Columbus, titled History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828), Irving wrote that it was the flat-earth believing churchmen who vehemently opposed Columbus’ plan to travel to the Indies on the grounds that his ship would fall off the edge of the earth while attempting to sail across the Atlantic.
  In fact, those who opposed Columbus not only knew the earth was a sphere, but also had a good idea of how large it was—and this was the major reason why they opposed Columbus. Columbus and his men were not afraid of falling off the earth as Irving claimed, but of travelling so far from land in an unknown part of the world. They did not know the American continent existed, and, for this reason, Columbus’ critics correctly believed that a voyage to the Far East would take far too long and cost way too much. Unfortunately, Irving used many facts from reputable references to make his fictional account appear well supported, and, as a result, ‘the public was fooled into taking his literary game as history. A careful reading of Irving makes it clear that his ‘history’ was deliberately designed to make Christianity appear prejudiced, dogmatic and ignorant, and to make scientists appear as objective persons who were carefully weighing the facts and who, in the end, were correct. As Morrison correctly concluded, Irving’s account is ‘mischievous nonsense … . The sphericity of the globe was not in question. The issue was the width of the ocean,’ and on this question Columbus’ opposition was correct."

"...By citing only secondary sources, the flat-earth myth propagandists did what they accused the church of doing—and what Darwinists do today—and, as a result, they created a ‘body of false knowledge by consulting one another instead of the evidence. This history clearly supports, not a war of religion against science, but instead a war of evolutionary propagandists against religion. The fact that White and ‘his imitators have distorted history to serve ideological ends of their own’ is only one of the many examples of this war by materialists against Christianity."

[B3L13v3R]

A few years back, we watched the International Space Station one night go overhead quickly as it went from horizon to horizon on it's way around the earth again! There was a definite portion of an "arc" to its path!

Nothing conspiratorial from NASA on these gorgeous photos!~

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/top-15-earth-images-of-2015



Isaiah 40:21-22  Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?  (22)  It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

[Omegaman 3.0]

Two flat earthers die and go to heaven. At the pearly gates they have the chance to ask God any questions they want and get truthful answers, so one flat earther asks God "is the earth flat?" to which God answers "No."

The flat earther looks at the other and says "This conspiracy goes higher than we thought!"