Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

[Phil G]

Your believing in what you want to be wrong to support a globe earth.

No I’m not doing that. I’m going on evidence and observation. If reality contradicts what you think God is saying, them God is not saying it.

The earth cannot be a circle because it has height and depth, which a circle does not have. I don’t see any mention of a globe, so I don’t believe it’s saying the earth is a globe either. So that verse must mean something else.

 

[Apple Sky]

So that verse must mean something else.

Like what ?

 

[d taylor]

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Actually if the definition of a cult is defined by Biblical standards, science aligns with being a cult.

As a cult does not recognize Jesus of The Bible as The Son of God. A cult also adds to revelations that God has given in The Bible
So science does not recognize Jesus as The Son of God. Science also adds to the creation revelation God has given in The Bible and sciences extra revelation does not line up with The Bibles.

it also has leaders like Stephen Hawking, that Dawkins man, among many others.

I would say that matches a cult.

 

[Phil G]

Like what ?

Like the orbit of the earth. Or the horizon from the perspective of man. Both of these are a ‘circle’ because neither have height or depth.

But the earth cannot literally be a circle as a circle is defined as having no height or depth.

 

[Apple Sky]

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Actually if the definition of a cult is defined by Biblical standards, science aligns with being a cult.

As a cult does not recognize Jesus of The Bible as The Son of God. A cult also adds to revelations that God has given in The Bible
So science does not recognize Jesus as The Son of God. Science also adds to the creation revelation God has given in The Bible and sciences extra revelation does not line up with The Bibles.

it also has leaders like Stephen Hawking, that Dawkins man, among many others.

I would say that matches a cult.

Here Here, i'll second this

 

[Phil G]

Here Here, i'll second this

By the way check out the true context of Job 38:14 by reading it in context. Read Job 38:12-15. It has nothing to do with the earth’s shape, but how morning changes the earth like a seal changes clay. It’s nothing to do with the creation account.

 

[Strong in Him]

See post 1127.

No, stop fobbing me off.

The Bible - the King James Bible, which you claim teaches us all about the earth - says that God will bring his people up from the depths of the earth and the depths of the sea.
You say, in your own words, that the deepest hole ever dug was around 40,000 ft deep - which is a few miles.
How do you draw a circle which is a few miles deep? You can't.
You could make a pile of newspapers 4 miles high, draw a circle on the top sheet and then try to cut through the lot. That would not then be a circle.

Sorry, but if you insist that you do not belong to a cult, forget Dean Odle, Eric whatshisname and YouTube - use the brain God gave you and think for yourself. You ARE capable of doing that because every so often you start to really engage with what we are saying and ask intelligent questions.
But then you revert to your comfort zone. You haven't answered the points we make, you don't want to test anything for yourself - you don't even listen to your husband when he says that the earth is a globe and he has seen evidence of that through his telescope.
What's more, you dismiss anyone who has evidence that contradicts your belief as a liar, deluded, a freemason or anything else you can think of.
Jesus said that anyone who accuses, persecutes or makes life difficult for his followers, is doing it to him, too - yet you're quite prepared to slag us all off and make accusations with no evidence at all.

I'm sorry, but you are not doing yourself, Christianity or the Bible any favours at all.

 

[prodromos]

It's impossible to turn ones back on the truth, once you know, you know.

You remind me of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.

 

[prodromos]

Actually if the definition of a cult is defined by Biblical standards, science aligns with being a cult.

The Bible gives no definition of "cults"

As a cult does not recognize Jesus of The Bible as The Son of God. A cult also adds to revelations that God has given in The Bible
So science does not recognize Jesus as The Son of God. Science also adds to the creation revelation God has given in The Bible and sciences extra revelation does not line up with The Bibles.

it also has leaders like Stephen Hawking, that Dawkins man, among many others.

I would say that matches a cult.

Mathematician John Lennox, who has debated "that Dawkins man", has often stated that the mere fact of us being able to "do science", is evidence of God. There are others who claim mathematics is proof of God

 

[Apple Sky]

You remind me of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes.

No I'm more like this guy .

 

[prodromos]

No I'm more like this guy .

Unfortunately, that does seem to be the case. Your signature says, The truth does not fear investigation", but you don't investigate. You pull out a random link or youtube video from your book of excuses, often with the word "perspective", but just like @d taylor you are content to sit in your little bubble of ignorance because what you believe DOES fear investigation.

 

[Apple Sky]

Unfortunately, that does seem to be the case. Your signature says, The truth does not fear investigation", but you don't investigate. You pull out a random link or youtube video from your book of excuses, often with the word "perspective", but just like @d taylor you are content to sit in your little bubble of ignorance because what you believe DOES fear investigation.

No the truth does not fear investigation. but you and others seem to.

 

[Phil G]

No the truth does not fear investigation. but you and others seem to.

It’s mind boggling to me that you say such a thing. Christians who know the earth is a globe are people who have investigated. They have taken an interest in God’s wonderful creation & delved into its detail & workings.

My amateur astronomer brother is throughly and always amazed at God’s creation, its immense size which is beyond human understanding. Its complexity which reflects God’s glory and majesty. And it all enhances his faith.

Yet you seem to do none of that. You listen YouTube videos by people making claims about the Bible. You don’t investigate those claims, you just accept them. That’s not investigating. That’s blind faith in the person on the video.

So you needn’t accuse any Christian who knows the earth is a globe of fearing investigation. That’s just sheer ignorance on your part.

 

[prodromos]

No the truth does not fear investigation. but you and others seem to.

What an utterly ridiculous statement.

 

[d taylor]

The Bible gives no definition of "cults"

Mathematician John Lennox, who has debated "that Dawkins man", has often stated that the mere fact of us being able to "do science", is evidence of God. There are others who claim mathematics is proof of God

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I was not saying that the Bible defines what a cult is. But people (christian) who identify groups as a cult use The Bible as their source in labeling a group as a cult.

Which two of the main areas used, is who do they say Jesus is and do they add extra revelations that are sourced from outside of The Bible. A third one is there is usually a charismatic leader involved, but not always.


I see no need to prove the existence of God, outside of the evidence provided by and in The Bible.

 

[Apple Sky]

What an utterly ridiculous statement.

An answer to an utterly ridiculous post.

 

[Phil G]

An answer to an utterly ridiculous post.

The evidence is that you don’t investigate, despite what your CF signature says. Nothing ridiculous about saying it out straight.

 

[d taylor]

You can follow Saturn a lot better with an equatorial mount, it's design being dependent on a rotating globe cosmology.

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I filmed that with a camera and all one of those mounts do is, move the telescope so it follows the path of the star.

 

[Strong in Him]

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I was not saying that the Bible defines what a cult is. But people (christian) who identify groups as a cult use The Bible as their source in labeling a group as a cult.

No, a cult is a group, belief system or way of life that centres, mostly, around one person who is pushing a particular product, or ideology.
So a pop, film or sports star who advocates veganism, alternative medicine or anything else can have a cult following. Like Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop or celebrities who swear by anti-ageing products, for example.

In religious cults, people become convinced that they, alone, have the truth and that anyone who says otherwise is dangerous and trying to disrupt the group's belief or way of life.
Christianity started as a Jewish cult. Jews knew they were God's chosen people and were awaiting their Messiah, then suddenly Jesus of Nazareth comes along, heals people, criticises the religious establishment and people follow him and say that he is the Messiah. After his death, his followers even start saying that he is alive again - and that those who believe in him can become God's children. Jews used to persecute us for being a cult.

Christian cults are those who claim they follow the Bible and Christian faith but don't because their own leader has told them otherwise. So "Rev" Moon claimed that he had met Jesus who told him the Moon had to become the 2nd Messiah because Jesus had failed in his mission. Is that true?
No, because the Bible says otherwise.
JWs, Mormons etc. do not believe in the Trinity because their leaders tell them it's false. IS it false; no, the Bible teaches it.
Several cults have actually been found guilty of brainwashing - e.g. JWs have been known to let their members have as little sleep as possible, cut them off from their families and friends and bombard them with teachings by their leader. Why? So the members will be unable to think and question for themselves and will not be in contact with people who present an alternative argument to the group.
Flat earth teachers are just as capable of having a cult following, and indeed presenting cultish behaviour, as anybody else.

The Bible does not teach this kind of controlling, coercive behaviour.

 

[Apple Sky]

The evidence is that you don’t investigate,

I don't bother investigating lies, the earth doesn't rotate & the earth doesn't orbit the sun, the only thing that rotates is the firmament along with the moon, sun & the stars.

What do you think the earth is, a merry go round