They know that, as does anyone who's ever spent any time on or near the sea. But they'l keep denying it to their dying breath. They're defending their religion, and if that means doing a little violence to the truth, so be it.
They can't. They. Just. Can't.
I suggest you survey any number of English Bibles for in Isaiah 40:22, he used the word chug - which is translated as CIRCLE of the earth in just about every translation to describe the shape of the earth. By definition, a circle is two dimensional. Contrast that with a sphere which is three dimensional. If Isaiah under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit wished to describe the earth as a ball/sphere, he would have used the same word he used in Isa 22:18 "tossed thee like a ball...." which is "dur." He did not use dur in Isa 40:22 but chose to use chug instead. Thus the earth is described as flat circle instead of a round ball.
It's obvious that you have no awareness of the point being made. We have been taught/brainwashed that when a vessel "disappears" from shore as it heads out to sea, it is going over the horizon caused by the spherical earth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our naked eye perceives it as "disappearing" over the horizon but a good pair of binoculars or zoom camera brings the vessel back into view again. This is one the easiest empirical observations to disprove the lie of the spherical earth.
That's a false assumption on your part.
No it doesn't. I own both a telescope and binoculars and have observed ships disappearing over the horizon many times. What you claim is utterly false.
Quite the opposite in fact.
It never comes up because the scriptures predate Coppernicus.
Of course I have but I have strong doubts that you have. Or if you did, you simply pick and choose what to believe and not to believe.
Hogwash indeed is the heliocentric model invented by the imaginations of men.
In a math and science book?
Last time I checked, you don't need the Pythagorean Theorem (I suggest you correct your spelling) or Ohm's Law to live the Christian life. Scripture is sufficient for that as it doesn't address your hobby.
And I suppose that is why none other than Wernher von Braun had his grave stone engraved citing Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork."
How so? Haven't you been taught that ships disappear over the horizon?
I surmise you are not aware of the rules of perspective are you? What comes into play is not going over the horizon but the operation of the vanishing point including atmospheric conditions which cause your object to disappear from your view finder.
The same can be said for you as your mind is intractable. You presume that humans have always perceived the earth as round forgetting that up until the time of Copernicus, most believed the earth was flat. In fact the Hebrews whom God used to reveal His truth as His chosen people believed in a flat earth covered by a solid domed firmament. The link to this article is not written by a flat-earther but provides a balanced critique of what the Hebrews believed to be true regarding our cosmology.
I learnt it through observation.
You surmise wrong.
That would be flerspective, which has only a passing similarity with perspective.
Yet another false assumption about me. Most people did not care one way or the other since they lived all their lives in the same place and never experienced much beyond the distance they could see. In that small frame of reference their experience of their environment would very much resemble a flat earth.
I found nothing in your link about scientists discovering a "glass wall" in space.
Frankly, I find it fascinating.
I know what translators have done, and it is common for them to translate in ways that obscure what is written.
As a Master Mariner of 30 odd years experience I can tell you are quite unequivocally wrong. I live out there every day for 180 days a year and almost every day at some point I will pick up my binoculars to look at something on the horizon and then observe it approaching. Every single time you can see the vessel/object clearly and clearly with a part of it below the horizon. As it approaches the horizon more of it becomes visible until at the point just before it reaches the horizon it is fully in view.
Just trying to underline how often I have seen the curvature of the Earth. Probably somewhere in the region of 5000 times.
Observation is excellent but does not always result in the correct conclusion.
Flerspective - a coined term with no basis in fact used to detract from the flat earth argument.
The problem is their view of the earth coincides with how Scripture describes the earth, moon and stars. You choose to ignore it which of course is your prerogative.
Then perhaps you should read more carefully; more specifically the 5th paragraph:
Exhibit A: Oldmantook
Perhaps you meant to put another link? The link in your post does not have the above text anywhere.
