Is the Earth Flat?

[trophy33]

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The Bible does not have to be God to state creation truths from God. God is a perfect communicator, if you must because of science, make excuses for the creation descriptions. That is your prerogative, but it is not mine. I believe The Bible's creation account in The Bible as given by God and inspired recorded by man. Science will never cause me to doubt The Bibles creation accounts or try to make The Bible agree with science.

Men were not mere vessels for automatic dictation from God. Men wrote from their human perspective and used their personality and their knowledge to describe the inspired thoughts.

Sun, moon etc in the skies are described from a human perspective, of an ancient writer standing on the ground and looking at the skies. Its not a God given scientific revelation how the cosmos works from some outer space perspective.

If you are an ancient man, not knowing much about the nature, it really seems that stars, sun, moon are lights in the skies and that skies seem to look like a dome in which those lights move, together with birds and rain falling from waters above the "firmanent". You can even see stars falling on the earth and they are very small when you find them.

 

[Hans Blaster]

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Yes it is, you believe that scientist have stated, they have sent a craft out in space and this craft sent images back of all sides of the sun.

There is nothing different from you posting a link to a website of images that you believe are real.

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Than me posting text from The Bible that i believe is God's word.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

You have faith in man and his words and images, I have faith in God and His word.

Are you fishing for pity? Pity for your inability to accept actual evidence as real? If you have to ignore all evidence for thousands of years to justify your acceptance of a short passage in a 2500-year-old text that is sad.

One not even build a spacecraft to see the errors in the text you quote: The presence of the Sun and Moon do *not* divide light from darkness as the Moon frequently appears in the sky AT THE SAME TIME as the Sun. (Occasionally the Moon blocks the Sun in a process that is easily explained by the orbital motions of the three spherical objects (Sun, Earth, and Moon) and whose patterns have been known and used for prediction since *before* that bit of text was written. Sigh.

 

[Lost4words]

Are you fishing for pity? Pity for your inability to accept actual evidence as real? If you have to ignore all evidence for thousands of years to justify your acceptance of a short passage in a 2500-year-old text that is sad.

One not even build a spacecraft to see the errors in the text you quote: The presence of the Sun and Moon do *not* divide light from darkness as the Moon frequently appears in the sky AT THE SAME TIME as the Sun. (Occasionally the Moon blocks the Sun in a process that is easily explained by the orbital motions of the three spherical objects (Sun, Earth, and Moon) and whose patterns have been known and used for prediction since *before* that bit of text was written. Sigh.

Its impossible to show reason to people who have their head buried in the sand.

 

[d taylor]

Men were not mere vessels for automatic dictation from God. Men wrote from their human perspective and used their personality and their knowledge to describe the inspired thoughts.

Sun, moon etc in the skies are described from a human perspective, of an ancient writer standing on the ground and looking at the skies. Its not a God given scientific revelation how the cosmos works from some outer space perspective.

If you are an ancient man, not knowing much about the nature, it really seems that stars, sun, moon are lights in the skies and that skies seem to look like a dome in which those lights move, together with birds and rain falling from waters above the "firmanent". You can even see stars falling on the earth and they are very small when you find them.

Looks like you believe men just decided to write about God"s creation from what they observed, but The Bible plainly states other wise.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

 

[trophy33]

Looks like you believe men just decided to write about God"s creation from what they observed, but The Bible plainly states other wise.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

Genesis account is not a prophecy. Its a mythological drama of creation.

 

[d taylor]

Are you fishing for pity? Pity for your inability to accept actual evidence as real? If you have to ignore all evidence for thousands of years to justify your acceptance of a short passage in a 2500-year-old text that is sad.

One not even build a spacecraft to see the errors in the text you quote: The presence of the Sun and Moon do *not* divide light from darkness as the Moon frequently appears in the sky AT THE SAME TIME as the Sun. (Occasionally the Moon blocks the Sun in a process that is easily explained by the orbital motions of the three spherical objects (Sun, Earth, and Moon) and whose patterns have been known and used for prediction since *before* that bit of text was written. Sigh.

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No i am just stating something you will not admit, even though that is how you function with science, by faith in man's claims.

 

[d taylor]

Genesis account is not a prophecy. Its a mythological drama of creation.

...Whether prophecy or accounts of creation or history, etc.. man has not been assigned by God to decide what is accurate inspired words from God throughout The Bible.


...Like i stated believe what you want about The Bible, i will not have to give an account for your beliefs.

 

[Lost4words]

Believing in the word of God and misinterpreting it are two different things!

 

[Lost4words]

If my dear friend @d taylor was taken into space and saw that the earth was a globe he still wouldnt believe it!

 

[trophy33]

man has not been assigned by God to decide what is accurate inspired words from God throughout The Bible.

So, why do you try to decide that? Let the church decide. Common Christian creeds have nothing about Genesis being scientific and main churches accept evolution and scientific cosmology.

Let it be, then, and do not argue about your controversial private interpretation.

 

[Hans Blaster]

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No i am just stating something you will not admit, even though that is how you function with science, by faith in man's claims.

I will go with measurements EVERY TIME. Just because someone wrote something down in the distant past and a lot of people like that writing doesn't make it true, or even worth consideration.

 

[d taylor]

So, why do you try to decide that? Let the church decide. Common Christian creeds have nothing about Genesis being scientific and main churches accept evolution and scientific cosmology.

Let it be, then, and do not argue about your controversial private interpretation.

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You lecture you own self on what to argue about and what to believe, i need no advice from you.

 

[trophy33]

You lecture you own self on what to argue about and what to believe, i need no advice from you.

Why should only you be allowed to lecture others?

Your own verse you used says that the prophecy of Scripture is not of one's private interpretation. You think that Genesis is a prophecy. Stop interpret it privately then and go with the church.

 

[d taylor]

Why should only you be allowed to lecture others?

Your own verse you used says that the prophecy of Scripture is not of one's private interpretation. You think that Genesis is a prophecy. Stop interpret it privately then and go with the church.

Coming from one who picks and chooses their Bible beliefs, you may have avoided other verses about The word of God.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

 

[trophy33]

Coming from one who picks and chooses their Bible beliefs, you may have avoided other verses about The word of God.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Where do you see "equipped for science" in it?

 

[d taylor]

Where do you see "equipped for science" in it?

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Science does not need to used, as the Creator is giving the description. Like Rembrandt was to have written a book on his process of painting, there would be no need for scholars to tell people how he painted.

 

[trophy33]

Science does not need to used, as the Creator is giving the description. Like Rembrandt was to have written a book on his process of painting, there would be no need for scholars to tell people how he painted.

No, the Creator is not giving the description. Your mistake. Cannot you see it? "God created..." - 3rd person. If God was giving the description, it would be "I created".

Men used their vocabulary and their description to express the inspired thoughts. When they wrote "God put lights in the sky", it was inspired theologically. And they used their vocabulary to describe it. Its not a scientific claim that stars are placed physically in our sky.

 

[Lost4words]

Christian flat earth believers 'interpret' God's word to say the earth is flat.

Give the same scriptures to 10 people and you may come up with 10 different interpretations!

Personal interpretations have caused wars! Today, we have people claiming that only they read God's word correctly, when, in reality, they are greatly twisting God's word to suit their 'very own' narrow and untheological beliefs.

The earth is not flat. The Bible does not say it is flat. The Bible does not explain God's creation in a full and scientific way.

If you look up at the sun, moon, planets etc, they are all round.....fact. Earth is the same....fact.
Man can prove this as God has given him the ability to do so.

The bible is being greatly misinterpreted by the minority. By the few, who, believe the earth is flat.

 

[d taylor]

No, the Creator is not giving the description. Your mistake. Cannot you see it? "God created..." - 3rd person. If God was giving the description, it would be "I created".

Men used their vocabulary and their description to express the inspired thoughts. When they wrote "God put lights in the sky", it was inspired theologically. And they used their vocabulary to describe it. Its not a scientific claim that stars are placed physically in our sky.

Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

 

[d taylor]

No, the Creator is not giving the description. Your mistake. Cannot you see it? "God created..." - 3rd person. If God was giving the description, it would be "I created".

Men used their vocabulary and their description to express the inspired thoughts. When they wrote "God put lights in the sky", it was inspired theologically. And they used their vocabulary to describe it. Its not a scientific claim that stars are placed physically in our sky.

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Tell me Mr science man, what have you personally observed that proves The Bible creation descriptions should not be believe literately.