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The description of the heavens being stretch out like a curtain to form a tent over the earth should show you that the earth is being described as a circular disk, not a sphere. Martin Luther did not teach a flat earth, however Cosmas Indicopleustes certainly did in the 6th century. He advocated that the church stop compromising with the pagan Greek science of spherical earth and learn what the bible teaches about the shape of the earth without being unequally yoked with unbelievers. He was Sola Scriptura long before Luther and would have considered Martin Luther inconsistent and serving two masters. If you want to go for real Sola Scriptura, YEC and geocentrism simply don't cut it. The church's compromise with extrabiblical science began long before Copernicus.
And quite right too.
Not quite right. The latest cosmology says that the universe is flat.
__________________ "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Jesus. "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10 v 13.
__________________ Slug's 1st Law of YECism- Genesis 1-9 must be interpreted literally. Slug's 2nd Law of YECism- Any other verses can be interpreted liberally to support the 1st Law. Slug's 3rd Law of YECism- Make up any extra-Biblical claim, no matter how wild, to wave-away evidence in violation of the 1st Law.
"If God sent a wind from space, and blew waters off the surface, for example, the waters would go down. Just as if you take a cup full of water over a sink, and blow hard on it, a lot will go out of the cup. Elementary." -dad ^This statement nullifies his own argument by comparing a "present state" event to a "past state" event!
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