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I see now why the globe is so accepted, because it can be visualized and set upon a pedestal to be worshiped. People can look at the created image of a globe earth and idolize it. Say hey this is our beautiful, etc... home.

But God's true creation the flat and stationary earth can not be made into an object of worship. The whole creation can not be known and visualized and made into little object. Set upon a stand to be spun around in a class room and worshiped as the home of humanity. But a man/satan created globe can be and is alas we have earth day.
 
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If you say so.
Well, as you unfortunately do so often, you just made the statement, "Also one to consider is that these so-called incoming meteorites are not physical rocks that burn up in the atmosphere, but are instead electrical discharge events, hence no rocks that land on earth." without providing any evidence to support the statement. Yet one can do a Google image search for "meteorites" and literally hundreds of pictures come up of meteorites too large to have burned up completely in the earth's atmosphere. Here's one example:

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I then searched for "Are meteorites electrical discharges?", and got this:

"No, meteorites are not electrical discharges; they are physical objects from space, but their passage through the atmosphere is associated with electrical phenomena. The bright light and fragmentation are often caused by the meteoroid's electrical potential interacting with the atmosphere, leading to discharges that can cause it to explode. "
 
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Doesn't mean it's no true as Enoch is mentioned in Scripture.
Just because something is mentioned in Scripture, that doesn't make it true. False gods are often mentioned in Scripture, and they are not true. The false words of Ananias and Sapphira are in scripture but that doesn't make them true.
 
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It isn't referring to any of the numerous forgeries that claim to be the book of Jasher. In fact it is highly likely that Book of Jasher (meaning, Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man) is simply a reference to the Pentateuch.
There are no traces or remnants of the supposed "lost book of Jasher", not even in quotations by other authors. Every publication which claims to be the rediscovery of the "book of Jasher" is a forgery. It seems very odd that a book that supposedly recorded certain major events in Jewish history would not have been included in the Hebrew bible, let alone vanish without a trace, but if it is just another name for the Books of Moses, then it makes perfect sense and has not been lost at all.

Interesting & informative - Thank you
 
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I see now why the globe is so accepted, because it can be visualized and set upon a pedestal to be worshiped. People can look at the created image of a globe earth and idolize it. Say hey this is our beautiful, etc... home.
Yes, every morning I take my Mercator globe out of it's crystal case and put it up on the altar in our living room and spend a good 30min worshipping it. Oh wait, I don't actually have a Mercator globe or any other kind of globe for that matter, so scratch that.
You really give no credit to those who don't believe as you do.
But God's true creation the flat and stationary earth can not be made into an object of worship.
You guys seem to be doing just that.
The whole creation can not be known and visualized and made into little object. Set upon a stand to be spun around in a class room and worshiped as the home of humanity. But a man/satan created globe can be and is alas we have earth day.
The earth is just one tiny, almost insignificant part of the whole of God's creation. No one is putting it on a pedestal.
Earth day is the creation of climate change alarmists. Those taking part are only virtue signalling. No one is worshipping the earth.

The fact is that most people give zero thought to the earth being a globe unless it is important in their work, such as surveyors, airline pilots or people navigating the oceans. Oh, and people launching satellites. For the rest of us we give it about as much thought as we do about breathing. The only time I give it any thought is when I am responding to the nonsense claimed by you and your fellow flatties.
 
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Well, as you unfortunately do so often, you just made the statement, "Also one to consider is that these so-called incoming meteorites are not physical rocks that burn up in the atmosphere, but are instead electrical discharge events, hence no rocks that land on earth." without providing any evidence to support the statement. Yet one can do a Google image search for "meteorites" and literally hundreds of pictures come up of meteorites too large to have burned up completely in the earth's atmosphere. Here's one example:

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I then searched for "Are meteorites electrical discharges?", and got this:

"No, meteorites are not electrical discharges; they are physical objects from space, but their passage through the atmosphere is associated with electrical phenomena. The bright light and fragmentation are often caused by the meteoroid's electrical potential interacting with the atmosphere, leading to discharges that can cause it to explode. "

In that case the earth should be strewn with them as in 1833 this happened;

A meteorite storm where 200,000 meteorites an hour bombarded the earth.


This was an electrical phenomena.

God doesn't chuck stones at the earth!
 
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I see now why the globe is so accepted, because it can be visualized and set upon a pedestal to be worshiped.
People can idolise flat earth too.
Idolise as in writing posts about it, finding arguments in favour of it, and even Scriptures, that "illustrate" it, searching on YouTube for videos which explain it. There are even groups of people who teach, and promote, flat earth - even though it is not all important, has nothing to do with salvation, belief in God or Christian growth.
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Say hey this is our beautiful, etc... home.
You don't think that the world that God made is beautiful?
But God's true creation the flat and stationary earth can not be made into an object of worship.
Anything can be made into an object of worship if people are so determined.
Look at all those who are obsessed with pop/film/sports stars, a particular tv programme, a certain food, hobbies, work, booze - even conspiracy theories.
Set upon a stand to be spun around in a class room and worshiped as the home of humanity.​
Yes because everyone worships globes, don't they.
Get real.
-But a man/satan created globe can be and is alas we have earth day.​
Like I said, anything can be made into an object of worship if people want it to be.

And we have earth day to focus peoples minds on the earth and its resources. To encourage people to care for the earth- as God intended - and not pollute and destroy it.
I've never heard anyone saying "today is the day that we worship the earth. Everyone must spend the whole day on their knees, reading poems about how wonderful it is that the earth is a globe."
 
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In that case the earth should be strewn with them as in 1833 this happened;

A meteorite storm where 200,000 meteorites an hour bombarded the earth.

But most meteorites burn up in the earth's atmosphere (I think because of heat generated at they pass through the atmosphere). I found this in a Google search:

"Pieces of natural space debris — typically rocky shards of comets or asteroids — occasionally survive their journeys through Earth's atmosphere and strike the ground, but how often does an event like this actually occur?


While large impacts are fairly rare, thousands of tiny pieces of space rock, called meteorites, hit the ground each year. However, the majority of these events are unpredictable and go unnoticed, as they land in vast swathes of uninhabited forest or in the open waters of the ocean." (my emphasis)
This was an electrical phenomena.
How do you know? You have just made a statement with no evidence at all.
God doesn't chuck stones at the earth!
When you said this before, I said that I never even mentioned the idea of God "chucking stones at the earth." I don't know why you mention such a thing. I hadn't.
 
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God doesn't chuck stones at the earth!
You're the only person who has ever talked about God chucking stones at the earth.
What is rain - God watering his garden?
Do we have lightning because God has a faulty lightbulb? Or thunder because he's moving furniture around in his mansions?
 
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You're the only person who has ever talked about God chucking stones at the earth.

Well he doesn't.

What is rain -

It's not stones.

Do we have lightning because God has a faulty lightbulb?

Lol'z - Electrical storm.

Or thunder because he's moving furniture around in his mansions?

^_^ Maybe who knows .........

God does not chuck stones at the earth, Amen! If he did 'God help us all when an asteroid comes along' :eek:
I'm so glad I don't live on your ball earth, it sounds sooooooo dangerous. :D
 
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In that case the earth should be strewn with them as in 1833 this happened;

A meteorite storm where 200,000 meteorites an hour bombarded the earth.
You need to get your terminology right. That was a meteor storm. They all burned up in the earth's atmosphere. They are only meteorites if they don't burn up completely and actually reach the earth's
This was an electrical phenomena.
Doesn't resemble an electrical storm at all

God doesn't chuck stones at the earth!
Sodom and Gomorrah would like a word with you.
Genesis 19:24
 
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Well he doesn't.
God doesn't chuck anything around - that's the point.
Lol'z - Electrical storm.
Exactly.
There's a natural, and scientific, explanation for it - it's not due to anything that God is doing.
^_^ Maybe who knows .........
If you honestly believe that, you need to read your Bible more often and learn who God is.
God does not chuck stones at the earth, Amen!
Therefore meteorites, asteroids or whatever are NOT "God chucking stones around" - i.e they are something else.
I'm so glad I don't live on your ball earth,
You live on the same planet as the rest of us - although I do wonder sometimes.
You live in the same country as others, you walk down the same roads, visit the same places, etc.
The earth isn't flat where your house is and then becomes a globe earth when you get to Cardiff, London, Chester, France etc. That's not possible. The planet is either a circular but flat, 40,000 foot deep shape or a globe. You can't accept that it's the latter; that doesn't mean that it isn't.
 
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You live on the same planet as the rest of us - although I do wonder sometimes.
^_^

You live in the same country as others, you walk down the same roads, visit the same places, etc.

Yes & I'm so glad the earth is flat, I would hate to live on a spinning ball hurling through space, it just sounds so dangerous.
 
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Yes & I'm so glad the earth is flat, I would hate to live on a spinning ball hurling through space,.
Well you must hate living on earth, then.
 
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