I take it that you at least see a possibility of the world being a globe shape? And from the range of possibilities you find the flat earth model more compelling?
In the weighing of possible interpretations, sometimes it isn't that we find one model more compelling than the rest but rather that a different model is distinctly uncompelling (or compellingly untrue) because of some association. An example: if we know that someone tells lies all of the time in a consistent manner, we might feel that what they say is compellingly not the case due to how we are characterizing the source of the information. The villagers eventually considered the boy who cried wolf to be reliably untrue and therefore were compelled to reject the boy's claims.
If you accept a flat earth model, is it because you find it compelling true compared to the alternatives or is it because you find the globe model compellingly untrue?
The model suggests that while spinning and orbits allow for a centrifugal effect of sorts that maintains distance (e.g. the observation is that the moon is currently slowly moving away from earth at inches per year), that masses would still be pulled toward each other. "Down" would simply be the direction of the greater gravitational pull. On earth, "down" would always be toward the core of the globe. The pull of gravity is greatly affected (diminished) by distance. With a precise enough scale, if you weigh something at sea level and then again at the top of the highest mountains, the weight of the object decreases at the mountain tops.
At specific temperatures and pressures, things will "mix" despite having different densities. Air will sink down closer to the core and displace a helium balloon (causing the balloon to float upward). Over time, the helium and air leak through the mylar balloon and the helium concentration in the balloon will decrease. Eventually the balloon will fall back down because the contents of the balloon has changed. Given enough time, all of the helium and air will leak through to the point of equilibrium and the balloon will be completely filled with air (if it hasn't simply deflated first). It is the weight of the mylar itself that will eventually cause a balloon to come back down. I don't think a helium balloon has much bearing on the flat earth "downward pull" model vs. the modern model of gravity. That has more to do with fluid dynamics.
I think it can be a reasonably held position that the media states many untruths (beyond just jokes about weathermen and meterology), and therefore it follows that what they say should be considered with a grain of salt. But we still have to come back to sifting through which observations we deem reliable vs unreliable, and from there we can test those observations against our models to see whether our models are consistent with all of the reliable observations.
I see some comments you've made about the horizon and not theoretically being able to see mountains certain distances from each other. I'm not familiar with this premise. Are you able to explain?
Praise God Brother and thank you for your response.
i was raised and educated, as all of us, on the belief of a spinning globe model of earth.
i never questioned it, even after coming to Christ and being truly Born Again and later filled with the Holy Spirit.
Distinctly arguing
against a flat earth, as a son of God, and never questioning the status quo which is mandated everywhere.
It is important to note that it is indeed a mandate to believe a globe earth if you want a education, to be promoted and accepted in almost all aspects of society AND we see the effect of this here, right now, on this very platform.
Factual verifiable science (which i love) is what has spurned me to question that which is mandated by the controlling (satanists) elite of this world.
Please allow me to once again state that
in no way is this an issue of Righteous Standing before our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
We will all be surprised and shocked as to how much God reveals to us when we leave this earth.
So, even though we are under delusion in many ways except that which the LORD reveals to us, it is the GOSPEL of God which saves us = no matter our background, heritage, education, wealth or poverty, health or weakness, Jew or Gentile, male or female.
We most certainly can be on a globe earth spinning thru space.
At my current inspection of physical Laws which govern on this earth as created by the LORD, it presently appeals to me from this perspective to at least question a globe spinning thru space and the absolute need for a invisible, unmeasurable 'theory of gravity'
that holds all things together.
i believe true undefiled science would have it no other way but to mandate truth and accountability in measurements, laws and factual statements that can be verified without threat of imprisonment, financial ruin, with public and private alienation.
"An unjust balance is an abomination to the Lord" -
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And the short measure
that is an abomination?
Shall I count pure
those with the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights?
For her rich men are full of violence,
Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
i have pain in my hands so - break time
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