[today: 3.5 miles]
I have a cousin who us into something similar to the Hebrew Roots movement. He and I do a bit of back-and-forth on Facebook.
One of the people he re-posts is a guy who is basically an imposter, pretend bible scholar who also runs a flat-earth web site.
Anyway, I was looking at some of that on the net this morning. Anybody who seriously thinks “flat earth” is an answer to any question is just not dealing from a full deck. Just sayin’. You have a cell phone and a credit card and hopefully one friend you can trust. Take your phone, jump on a plane and fly to Indonesia. Get on the phone to your friend back home. Ask him or her, “is it dark there?” Compare their answer with what you are experiencing at that moment. Problem solved.
I read a refutation of the flat earth thing, which I enjoyed, over on the Answers In Genesis website. I can point it out of you’re interested, but I’ll assume you probably are OK without spending time on dumb stuff. One tidbit they pointed out is that the people of ancient times understood the world was round and not flat. They even knew the rough size of it by 200 BC.
Ok, so what I really wanted to point out was my own Bible based refutation of flat-earth as a viable theory, now or in the ancient times. Actually I’m refuting the idea that the Bible makes a claim of a flat-earth.:
“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” Psalm 103:12
I’m here to say that the verse from Psalms doesn’t make any sense in the context of flat earth beliefs. Does it make any sense to say, “as far as from Milwaukee to Seattle, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” ??? Are they talking miles? cubits? To make such a statement “as far as the east is from the west” is either factual language or figurative language, it seems to me. It’s the difference between X-miles and infinity. How about those people who live in the middle of the flat earth, their transgressions must be parked out in space about half-a-flat-earth’s-distance from the edge of the flat earth? Or an east-edge person’s transgressions are sitting just offshore on the western edge? I’m thinking this is figurative language. And it couldn’t be effective figurative language if the readers thought the earth was flat. So I easily conclude in my own mind that when Psalm 103 was written it was figurative language to say “as far as the east is from the west” implying that the people at that time commonly knew the earth wasn’t flat (approximately 1000 BC).