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Subject: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:27 am
It will drive you nuts. I heard Rob Skiba on Canary Cry radio and it's driving him nuts too. So I started looking into it a bit yesterday. I don't know how I personally from here in North America could prove what the earth looks like.
I should have left this one alone.
Delfi Elite
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:05 am
LOL sixminks! Nuts is right! In that it will drive you there! I think I've listened to all the flat earther podcasts and lectures I can find and it is intriguing, just enough to make me feel like I'm being duped! Or that I'm an idiot for not seeing it before...
But I found this, rather succinct little article.
Answers in Genesis
Quote :
The Earth Is Round
The Bible indicates that the earth is round. Consider Isa 40.22]Isaiah 40:22 which mentions the “circle of the earth.” This description is certainly fitting—particularly when the earth is viewed from space; the earth always appears as a circle since it is round. Another verse that indicates the spherical nature of our planet is Job 26.10 Job 26:10. This verse teaches that God has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. This boundary between light and darkness (day and night) is called the “terminator” since the light stops or “terminates” there. Someone standing on the terminator would be experiencing either a sunrise or a sunset; they are going from day to night or from night to day. The terminator is always a circle, because the earth is round. One of the great delights of observing the moon through a small telescope is to look at its terminator, especially during the first or third quarter phases when the terminator is directly down the middle of the moon. The craters are most easily seen at this boundary since the sun is at a low angle and casts very long shadows there. The moon looks particularly three-dimensional when viewed through a telescope during these phases; it is clear that the moon is a sphere—not a flat disk (see photo below).
For the earth, the terminator occurs not on a cratered rocky surface, but primarily on water (since the earth’s surface is 70 percent water). Job 26.10 Job 26:10 suggests a “God’s eye” view of the earth. This biblical passage would be nonsense if the earth were flat, since there would be no true terminator; there is no line to “step over” that separates the day from night on a flat surface. Either it is day everywhere or night everywhere on a hypothetical “flat earth.” However, the earth does indeed have a boundary between light and darkness which is always a circle since the earth is round. Curiously, many astronomy textbooks credit Pythagoras (c. 570–500 B.C.) with being the first person to assert that the earth is round.1 However, the biblical passages are older than this. Isaiah is generally acknowledged to have been written in the 700s B.C. and Job is thought to have been written around 2000 B.C. The secular astronomers before the time of Pythagoras must have thought the Bible was wrong about its teaching of a round earth, yet the Bible was exactly right. It was the secular science of the day that needed to be corrected.
So, I'm going to go with scripture on this one but the theory is very entertaining as well as the Hollow Earth Theory.
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:21 am
I heard Rob Skiba talking about this on Caravan To Midnight (show 416 on 17 Nov 2015) He was caught up in investigating this flat earth thing. John Wells wasn't buying it for a minute. Rob said he wasn't completely convinced either but the theory makes for compelling investigation.
For the record . . . I ain't buying it!!! To many photos of our home planet have been beamed back to earth from all that hardware us earthlings have slung out into space over the past few decades.
!! FOXTROT JULIETBRAVO !!
sixminks
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:50 pm
I have a degree in geography so I am certainly not defending a flat earth and some bible verses seem to support it especially in KJV. But, the airline routes, these are surprising and the air plane tracker never showing any planes in the Southern Hemisphere crossing the oceans....this has me stumped. Ugh!
jumpstart
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:26 pm
Had a close friend that flew blackbirds and he would talk about the terminator and its clear demarcation at 70,000 plus feet as a sphere of light and dark. Not sure that could happen without curvature.
murray leslie
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:33 pm
the last time i looked into a flat earth, i fell off the edge, never to be heard from still ?!?...
Delfi Elite
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Fri Jan 08, 2016 8:47 am
Ha Ha Murray!! You have a point there, I feel dumb for even entertaining the idea now.
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:47 pm
*... yeah, compelling thought it may seem, i ain't buying it either. what 'bout all those communications satellites and such out there? how'z that workin' out in a flat earth scenario?
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Subject: ridin' that wave... Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:55 pm
*... here is a real head scratcher for ya'!
i ain't buyin' this either...
sixminks
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:37 pm
It's the air plane flights that get to me and believe it or not...the UN flag.
murray leslie
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:32 am
kjv says He puts bounds to the waters, and sits on the CIRCLE of the earth... sphere would be a better word, but no he says CIRCLE...hmmm...
murray leslie
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:58 pm
thanks, sixminks, where is that flightpath info? i'm finding more, and from the bible, grrrr... we bin lied too once more...F#*K, hope that is not 2 obvious...
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Thu Jan 14, 2016 11:06 am
here, something to think on...
job37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
firmament: what is a molten looking glass, 4 a thousand, alex ?!?
sixminks
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Fri Jan 15, 2016 3:06 am
Hi Murray Leslie. I can't quit looking into it. It's an everyday pursuit for a couple weeks. You know Isaiah said circle which is a flat circle or compass and earlier he used the Hebrew word for ball. So he chose the word circle. The bible presents flat earth. This is not just lied to I feel like I just unplugged my head from the matrix. This is brain washed since I was a kid. Me, my parents, and grandparents. And now when I find out the truth the world is goings tell me I'm crazy. This thing is rampantly running through Christian circles I think God will make a move soon.
murray leslie
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Subject: Re: Have you looked into the flat earth theory? Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:22 am
yes sir, satan is the father of lies, evolution we know is a lie, a globe of earth, a glob of crap...who knew, when people use the bible to argue for a sphere rather than flat, they r not going deep enough
i know this sounds nuts, and i am a post grape nut, but look at all, not some, ALL the evidence...CRAZY MAN...
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