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Hi, I don't have many like minded friends out there, and I am in search of answers to flat earth and or round earth? Everyone I know tells me I am crazy because based on BIBLICAL parables I find that the earth must be flat. I was getting so frustrated I turned to the Lord in prayer and the next day I found a couple of pastor's whom addressed the issue, and other videos to support my understanding.

I have been open minded and watched the round earth as well as searched the bible, by far I have found more parables that support flat than round.

I am a Christian and tired of being deceived by media, tv, movies, scientists and SATAN. GOD has been opening my eyes to things and it is awesome and yet confusing. When I told some family I am leaning toward flat earth based on Bible and other pastor videos, they told me I was crazy nuts, and that its always been round, and that I am stupid for even looking into this.

So please no judgment, lol just your opinions and thoughts, have you thought about this, or it doesn't really matter. Thanks for input
 

17Bees

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There's an entire thead some 500 pages long devoted to this subject called "Flat Earthers" in the Conspiracies forum. All the nonsense you could possibly want to read. Enjoy.
 
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Ok the earth being round is observable, and it's not even difficult to observe.
Even the shadow of the earth on the moon which causes the moon cycles is round, when you see a ship disappear over the horizon of the sea, and even from a window seat of an airplane.
Plus with telescopes we can see other planets and their moons. And they are all round, and obviously spherical. Engineers that build pipelines also take into account the curvature of the earth to build pipe lines from say Canada to Texas, also the azimuth calculations when calculating international flights and fuel consumption, and also rocket launching for NASA, and military, and commercial. And then we have satellite communications from tv to radio to internet. All taking into account the sphere of the earth.
 

Chris1975

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OK here are the verses, from the bible, to settle it for you once and for all.

Job 26v7
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.

Isaiah 40v22
22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
 
Jun 10, 2019
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Hi, I don't have many like minded friends out there, and I am in search of answers to flat earth and or round earth? Everyone I know tells me I am crazy because based on BIBLICAL parables I find that the earth must be flat. I was getting so frustrated I turned to the Lord in prayer and the next day I found a couple of pastor's whom addressed the issue, and other videos to support my understanding.

I have been open minded and watched the round earth as well as searched the bible, by far I have found more parables that support flat than round.

I am a Christian and tired of being deceived by media, tv, movies, scientists and SATAN. GOD has been opening my eyes to things and it is awesome and yet confusing. When I told some family I am leaning toward flat earth based on Bible and other pastor videos, they told me I was crazy nuts, and that its always been round, and that I am stupid for even looking into this.

So please no judgment, lol just your opinions and thoughts, have you thought about this, or it doesn't really matter. Thanks for input
When you see the sun or moon rising from the horizon is the horizon the end of earth and the sun or moon is under the earth or something like that.

if the earth is flat at night time with a high powered telescope you would be able to see day light halfway across the flat top earth. there is so much that debunks the flat earth model its not even funny.
 

Melach

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the earth is flat. proof is: people in australia would be in trouble if it was a ball.
more proof is look outside the window. four corners of the earth. scientists are crazy many times.
 

Dino246

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I suggest that we desist in responses in this thread and post them in the Conspiracy Forum thread.
 

blue_ladybug

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Round, flat. who knows and who cares? It doesn't matter anyway..
 

Nehemiah6

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Round, flat. who knows and who cares? It doesn't matter anyway..
I believe it does matter, since God has a good reason for everything. The sun dial of Ahaz is one of the best proofs of the earth being a globe.

"The principles of sundials are understood most easily from the Sun's apparent motion. The Earth rotates on its axis, and revolves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun. An excellent approximation assumes that the Sun revolves around a stationary Earth on the celestial sphere, which rotates every 24 hours about its celestial axis. The celestial axis is the line connecting the celestial poles. Since the celestial axis is aligned with the axis about which the Earth rotates, the angle of the axis with the local horizontal is the local geographical latitude."

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Hi, I don't have many like minded friends out there, and I am in search of answers to flat earth and or round earth? Everyone I know tells me I am crazy because based on BIBLICAL parables I find that the earth must be flat. I was getting so frustrated I turned to the Lord in prayer and the next day I found a couple of pastor's whom addressed the issue, and other videos to support my understanding.

I have been open minded and watched the round earth as well as searched the bible, by far I have found more parables that support flat than round.

I am a Christian and tired of being deceived by media, tv, movies, scientists and SATAN. GOD has been opening my eyes to things and it is awesome and yet confusing. When I told some family I am leaning toward flat earth based on Bible and other pastor videos, they told me I was crazy nuts, and that its always been round, and that I am stupid for even looking into this.

So please no judgment, lol just your opinions and thoughts, have you thought about this, or it doesn't really matter. Thanks for input
The bible also says that the sun rises and sets because it appears to do so when in reality the earth rotates on its axis resulting in half of the earth that is facing away from the sun to be dark and the other half that is facing the sun to be in the daylight.
 
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Hi, I don't have many like minded friends out there, and I am in search of answers to flat earth and or round earth? Everyone I know tells me I am crazy because based on BIBLICAL parables I find that the earth must be flat. I was getting so frustrated I turned to the Lord in prayer and the next day I found a couple of pastor's whom addressed the issue, and other videos to support my understanding.

I have been open minded and watched the round earth as well as searched the bible, by far I have found more parables that support flat than round.

I am a Christian and tired of being deceived by media, tv, movies, scientists and SATAN. GOD has been opening my eyes to things and it is awesome and yet confusing. When I told some family I am leaning toward flat earth based on Bible and other pastor videos, they told me I was crazy nuts, and that its always been round, and that I am stupid for even looking into this.

So please no judgment, lol just your opinions and thoughts, have you thought about this, or it doesn't really matter. Thanks for input
The Bible says that God sits on the circle of the earth so it is round whether a globe, or flat.

The Bible says the four corners of the earth but a flat earth that is a circle does not have 4 corners either.

The Bible says that from the coming up of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised, but I do not see how that can happen on a flat earth with the sun always the same distance above the earth's surface.

And also the way we observe it going from dark to light, and light to dark does not make sense on a flat earth.

For if is is roughly dark 12 hours, and light 12 hours as an estimation, then that means that is is not always dark, and it is not always light, so there must be a dividing between the light and dark for if not then it would always be light for we know the sun is there in the sky.

So the dark would chase the light, and the light the dark, so when it is light in our area and approaching night we would see the dark coming, and then the dark would pass through our area and then we would see the light going off in the distance and disappear until it is all dark., and the same for when it goes from dark to light.

But we do not observe it that way but when the sun goes down, boom, it is dark, and when the sun comes up, boom, it is light, and we do not see the light chasing the dark, and the dark chasing the light.

Also if the sun covers roughly about 12 time zones at one time then that would mean the sun's light can basically cover half the earth if the earth is flat.

Which the contiguous United States cover 4 time zones which from California to Maine is about 3,264 miles, and that is only 4 time zones.

Which Greenland from California is 3,545 miles, but have a different experience of light and dark for a time in the area compared to America which if the earth is flat and the sun always above the earth's surface at all times why would it be different.

Everybody would experience the same thing no matter where they are at on earth if the earth is flat and the sun always above the earth's surface at all times.

Also if gravity is true, for if it is, then if it is a flat earth it would seem like we would be pulled toward the center of the earth, but on a round earth no matter where you stand you have the same amount of earth under you for it is round, so gravity goes downward and we are not pulled to the side.

And of course what many people say is how come no pictures of the edge of the earth, and when a plane is in the sky no seeing the edge.
 
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But the earth has four points NSEW like a ✝️ on a ⭕️
 
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And the saying as far as east to west is infinite on a sphere earth, no matter how far you travel east you will be always traveling east on a compass. not so traveling north to south it changes once you reach the top of earth and travel down to the south
 

oyster67

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the earth is flat. proof is: people in australia would be in trouble if it was a ball.
more proof is look outside the window. four corners of the earth. scientists are crazy many times.
Last year, I accidentally dug up a Kangaroo whilst plowin' in me field here in Pennsylvania. No hoak'ino_O
 

oyster67

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more proof is look outside the window. four corners of the earth.
Did you ever leave your window open too long and have bugs fly in from other dimensions? I hate it when that happens.
 

Nebuchadnezzer

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Hi, I don't have many like minded friends out there, and I am in search of answers to flat earth and or round earth? Everyone I know tells me I am crazy because based on BIBLICAL parables I find that the earth must be flat. I was getting so frustrated I turned to the Lord in prayer and the next day I found a couple of pastor's whom addressed the issue, and other videos to support my understanding.

I have been open minded and watched the round earth as well as searched the bible, by far I have found more parables that support flat than round.

I am a Christian and tired of being deceived by media, tv, movies, scientists and SATAN. GOD has been opening my eyes to things and it is awesome and yet confusing. When I told some family I am leaning toward flat earth based on Bible and other pastor videos, they told me I was crazy nuts, and that its always been round, and that I am stupid for even looking into this.

So please no judgment, lol just your opinions and thoughts, have you thought about this, or it doesn't really matter. Thanks for input
The sun is round, the moon is round, in the telescope jupiter and saturn and mars, and venus and all the planets are round, the moons of jupiter are round. And then you have pictures of earth from space that show us that the earth is indeed round.

I have not seen anywhere in the bible indicating the earth is flat.