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I have confirmed while on the ground that straight horizontal lines remain straight while looking out a plane window. Your claim is false.In regards to airplane windows, they are all convex, much like the lens on a go pro camera. In other words, you are looking out a curved window, not at a curved earth.
Demonstrably false. Small boats may become too small for our eyes to discern at a distance and will indeed come back into view with a telescopic lens, but they will still be in front of the horizon. Large ships such as passenger liners or container ships however can still be seen with the naked eye when they begin to disappear bottom up at the horizon. Zooming in with a telescopic lens does not cause the bottom of the ship to reappear because it is hidden by the curvature of the earth.Ships don't disappear over the curvature of the earth, they advance beyond your visual perspective. Have you ever been on a long narrow highway lined with telephone poles on both sides? Look ahead or behind, the poles will grow closer together and closer to the ground from your perspective. Drive down the road a mile and those same poles will be at the same height and distance from one another as you originally perceived them. Aim a camera with a telescopic lens at the ship you watched disappear beyond the horizon, magnify the zoom and it will return to view.
Helping people like yourself escape from delusion.You plainly stated "the fact that the earth is a sphere is not up for debate". Then why may I ask are you debating it here? If you are convinced that your view of the cosmos is the correct one, and all other viewpoints are " absurd", then what is the point of further discussion?
Direct flights between cities in the Southern Hemisphere would be physically impossible on your flat earth, yet there are multiple such flights every week. Physical reality stands in stark contrast to the things you claim to be true. So which of us is misrepresenting reality?You mentioned that it was God who created a spherical earth. It was also God who created the first humans, Adam and Eve. He created them in His own image and placed them in the garden called Paradise. They were perfect and innocent and had the presence of God Himself with them regularly. And yet, these magnificent creatures who were blessed beyond measure, and created in the very image of Almighty God, were somehow deceived by nothing more than a few simple statements and suggestions. We live in a fallen world, with fallen natures, not a paradise but a cesspool run by none other than Satan himself. Our enemies, the world and the devil, exist in complete opposition to everything that is holy and good and true. Our enemy the flesh is so easily tempted and corrupted that we must continually guard our hearts and minds against not only the world and the devil, but our own vain thoughts and imaginations. And yet, in light of these obvious spiritual realities, your average believer cannot even allow for the possibility that this evil and fallen world in which we live, just may be misrepresenting Gods creation, how such misrepresentations would obviously benefit them, or that ever falling victim to such a misrepresentation could ever be possible.
To rescue poor souls like yourself from their delusion.I have already asked, why are you here if there is nothing to debate?
I think some of you have a martyr complex, and get validation from drawing ridicule.Have you ever wondered why we are here? Do you think those of us who disagree with you come here because we enjoy the insults, being called idiots and wingnuts and repeatedly being accused of having no discernment or wisdom and many times even being told that we can't possibly be true Christian believers et etc? Are we masochists? Trolls? Enemies of sent by the devil himself to stir up division? No to all of these.
The view of creation put forward by you and your coreligious presents a very limited God, no different from many of the pagan gods. You present the entirety of creation as a giant terrarium. We, on the other hand, are ever in awe of the God of this seemingly unbounded creation. Stars and galaxies that will ever be beyond our reach and serve no other purpose than to glorify our infinite and all powerful creator.I can't speak for anyone else, though I know enough people who share my views to confidently say, we are here because at some point in our lives we realized that this world is an empire of lies, ruled by none other than the father of lies, and that a great deal of what we have been told our entire lives served no other purpose than to distract and deceive us into accepting and believing even more lies which would eventually separate us from any knowledge of Almighty God, His creation, His divine purposes, and ultimately His very existence.
Evolution is bunk. Yes, it gets taught as fact but it simply cannot explain the simplest bacteria let alone something as complex as a bird or mammal.That what you call science, and established facts have already had this effect is beyond dispute. The theory of evolution being a prime example. How many people will never believe in God based upon that one scientific theory alone, how many others raised in the faith have abandoned that faith because of the things they were taught as facts during the process of higher education? God only knows.
Yet what you claim does not align with what we observe.We are here because at some point we realized that what we were told did not align with what we have observed.
Your unwillingness to accept the answers you are given does not reflect on their truth.Do we claim to have all the answers, of course not. What we do have are a wealth insufficiently answered questions.
Yet when a group of people go to the effort and expense of documenting the 24 hour sun in Antarctica, which would be impossible if the earth was flat, you people plug your ears and cry "la, la, la, la". It is clear which group of people is in fact, indoctrinated.And the God given ability to question those things which we can observably see as unsupported by the commonly accepted answers provided by the so called scientific community and the indoctrinated public at large.
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