Hyper-Literal interpretation.
So believeing what was is written in The Bible as it is written, is now referred to as Hyper-Literal.
No, rather, believing what Scripture doesn’t actually say by literally interpreting metaphors, parables, analogies and figures of speech is hyper-literal. For example, in John 10:7-16, our Lord declares Himself to be a door and a shepherd. This statement is accurate if interpreted reasonably: our Lord was not literally a shepherd, far less a door but rather a carpenter by trade, in addition to being the Christ, our Lord and Savior God the Son incarnate.
So when God states He created two great lights, believing that verse as written. Is now Hyper-Literal, it is the same ole game that has been played by the so called theological elites for a while, it really is nothing new.
God did create two great lights: a star, which is to say a massive sphere of hydrogen at a distance of 1 AU, and a smaller spherical body, commonly called the Moon or Luna, orbiting the Earth at a distance of a few light seconds.
These theological know it all elites, have played the same game with God's free gift of Eternal Life.
Anyone who believes as The Bible plainly states, to receive God's free gift of Eternal Life. The only condition given by God to receive Eternal Life (salvation) is belief/faith/trust in The promised Messiah for Eternal Life.
This argument makes no sense at all, since if, as you say, the only condition required to receive eternal life is belief, faith and trust in Christ Jesus, there is no possible harm in this life or the next from regarding the world as ellipsoid.
Conversely, given the fact that many safety-critical aspects of navigation, aviation, meteorology, oceanography, avionics engineering and wireless communications require knowledge of geodesy (and knowledge of geodesy starts with understanding the ellipsoid shape of this beautiful blue planet God has given us) there is an actual potential for harm at least in this life (and possibly the next if one attains an engineering, communications, navigation or other safety-critical job that requires geodetic comprehension, and causes a disaster through willful ignorance of the same resulting in the loss of life).
Indeed, forgive me, but I feel compelled to observe this holds true regardless of one’s soteriology, for as I mentioned previously, from a Nuda Fide perspective, such as the one you appear to hold, the question of the true shape of the Earth is unrelated to whether or not once believes on Jesus Christ as Savior; from a traditional Orthodox or Catholic soteriology or the Sola Fide of the traditional Protestant churches, because in both, putting our God-given intellect to peaceful and productive use is meritorious, whereas the willful ignorance or gross negligence that could cause harm to oneself or to others is by definition missing the mark, and while we are all sinners, we know from the Bible that a living faith bears fruit in the form of good works such as humility, repentance, loving-kindness and thanksgiving for those manifold blessings which our Heavenly Father hath seen fit to endow us.
I should lastly note that the risk of actually endangering oneself or others through refusal to accept the truth of the shape of our world is an exceedingly unlikely way to sin, since those professions which require a knowledge of geodesy are difficult to get into, requiring substantial academic or professional training.
Rather, the greatest risk of sin concerning this issue is one of pride, and it afflicts both those who believe the world to be ellipsoid, and those who do not, for the adherents of either group is at considerable risk of becoming puffed up with conceit, believing that since he knows the truth of the matter, this makes him inherently superior to those he considers to be in error.
This is not the case: A pious Christian could live his entire life totally unaware of the shape of the Earth, while living a life of true repentance, a life centered around loving God above all and loving his neighbor as himself, a life of attending church regularly, a life of giving alms to the poor and comfort to the distressed, a life of bewailing with free-flowing tears of compunction the many sins he, like every other Christian, has committed against God and the actual harm they have caused to his neighbor, a life of holy matrimony or holy celibacy, in which he puts ahead of his own the needs of his wife and children if married, or if celibate, the needs of his brothers and sisters in Christ, depending on the circumstances of his vocation, and in which he seeks to be a true servant of Christ’s church, spreading the Gospel either directly through the different forms of ministry available to him, or indirectly by being a beacon of virtue through obedience to the commandments of our Lord, God and Savior.
In fact, all Christians, as well as everyone else, actually are unaware of the actual shape of the Earth at any given moment, because the seas and the air above them are dynamic, and unlike the minor planets in the outer solar system, frozen solid and utterly devoid of an atmosphere, there is no way in classical physics to say with certainty the precise physical dimensions of the Earth at any given point in time. Rather, we assert the Earth is because although its physical shape is dynamic, at all times it can be described as an ellipsoid.
The vast majority of Christians, and of everyone else, are unaware of these subtleties of geodetics, and a great many would be surprised to learn how complex this really is, and alas, if only science education were what it used to be, and if “educational” channels on television like The History Channel still broadcast genuinely educational documentaries rather than moronic reality TV, the fields of science and engineering where geodetics are important, such as telecommunications engineering, avionics, oceanography, geology, meteorology, astronomy, aerodynamics, astrophysics, and many others.
Indeed, a very large number of people if asked the shape of the Earth would merely say it was round, which is the wrong answer, even though it is true that the Earth is round, because round is a quality of a shape and not a shape per se. And of those who did name an actual shape, the vast majority would say it was a sphere rather than an ellipsoid or spheroid; many people were or in some cases even today are taught in school that the Earth is spherical, and while it is true that the Earth is approximately spherical, it is not actually a perfect sphere but a spheroid, and remarkably few people, including remarkably many intellectuals in a variety of fields where geodesy is not a pressing concern, are not aware of this subtle distinction.
Thus, no one has any cause for pride, because whether they are right or wrong concerning the shape of the Earth, the vast majority of people simply do not know, nor do they need to know.
There is one other manner in which one might sin concerning the issue of the Flat Earth, that being the misrepresentation of the Christian faith in a manner that is detrimental to the saving work of the Great Commission, which I shall address in response to the following:
But there are many who attack this grace given by God as easy believism . So really nothing new here in applying names to adversaries of these theological elitist.
As I have shown, it is not relevant to a Christian’s hope of salvation, regardless of his denomination or soteriological belief if he personally does not know or accept the truth that this planet on which we are blessed to be born through the grace of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost is in the shape of an obloid (and likewise every other planet of similar characteristics created through Christ our God according to the will of the Father is of a similiar obloid or spherical shape, depending upon its composition, the gravitational forces acting upon it, and a multitude of other factors), for indeed, many, including myself, believe that all who are baptized in Christ have put on Christ, and having thus been sacramentally grafted onto the Body of Christ through the sacred mysteries of Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist, possess the Christian hope of the Resurrection and the Life of the World to Come.
These names actually carry no authority, because they come form mere men. Who think they have some type of superiority, because of science or some theological backing. But when examined through the lens of The Bible, their errors are reveled.
This takes us to the third category of sin I mentioned. When one asserts that the Holy Bible literally declares the Earth to be flat, on the basis of a few verses in a book which is filled with beautiful poetic metaphors, analogies, parables and related figures of speech, and which furthermore excels in the use of such figures of speech to convey complex truth, which is a classically Semitic approach to literature, and also one adopted with enthusiasm by the neighboring civilizations of Egypt, Persia, Rome, and most importantly, Greece (for it was in Greek that the New Testament would be written), as pointed out by myself and others, it misrepresents the content of Scripture. And if one asserts that a belief in a Flat Earth is an essential, that is even worse, because as I have already shown, it is irrelevant to salvation regardless of denomination.
The greatest problem this creates, however, is that since the vast majority of people have been taught in school the approximate shape of the Earth, and since the evidence in favor of a spheroid Earth is overwhelmingly obvious to most people, it fosters the an impression, one actively promoted by militant atheists and other enemies of the Christian faith, that Christians are not well educated, incapable of using the scientific method, and have no ability to positively contribute to our modern technological civilization, despite the fact that most of the key technologies powering our modern civilization were invented by Christians, who also performed most of the greatest accomplishments of science and engineering. For example, Yuri Gagarin was a baptized and secretly practicing Russian Orthodox Christian (the claim he made a radio transmission that he did not see God while in space was pure Soviet propaganda), and the vast majority of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were Protestant Christians. Buzz Aldrin is a Presbyterian, and at the time of Apollo 11 was serving as a Deacon in his church, and his first act after the Lunar Module had landed and stabilized during the planned rest period before EVA was to partake of Holy Communion using a specially prepared kit that had accompanied him into space, part of the very limited number of personal items he and the other astronauts were allowed to take with them.
If we discourage people from becoming Christians on the basis of a false premise resting on an obvious misinterpretation of Sacred Scripture, we have made ourselves a stumbling block, and this is something Christians are clearly taught not to do, whether laity or clergy.
