Taos Prophecy Conference 2022 Session 5: The Flat Earth

A GLobal History

• Most historians credit Pythagoras, the sixth-century B.C. Greek philosopher with being the first to recognize a global earth.
• The earth as sphere is the only view of Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Jews in the 500 years before Christ.
• It is often taught that the church believed in a flat earth during the dark ages. However, even a cursory look at Christian writings during this time prove this to be false.
• De sphaera mundi was written in 1230, clearly teaching the earth as a sphere.
• There was really never a large flat-earth movement until today.

Who Believes In a Flat Earth (and Why We Like Them!)

• The modern flat earth movement is almost exclusively found among exclusive KJV users.
• “rock solid" in believing God's Word to be inerrant.
• These believers believe that the revelation of God's Word about the earth is the final word.
• These believers are not afraid to go against the grain.
• In other words: these believers are just like us.

Let's Look At the Scripture Used To Support The Theory

• Genesis 1:7 and the teaching of the firmament.
  • Flat earthers teach this as a solid glass-like dome over the earth.
  • Oxford English Dictionary gives this “ literal and figurative."
  • To insist that the firmament is a glass dome, they must take the words of Genesis 1:14, in the firmament, to mean under the firmament.
  • They must also believe that the firmament has windows, see Genesis 1:20.
  • The firmament is given a name in verse 8: heaven.
    • We must use this name as the Biblical definition of firmament.
    • Genesis 1:26 uses the same Hebrew word translated in verse 8 as heaven. In verse 26 it is translated as sky.
    • Therefore, the Bible declares that the firmament* *is the sky.
• Isaiah 40:22 and the circle of the earth.
  • Flat earth adherents interpret this as the dome above the earth.
  • Such interpretation is supposed to prove a flat earth with a dome. Somehow earth's supposed dome proves flatness of the earth.
  • However, if circle“half a sphere," then does circle prove flatness or sphericalness?
• Ezekiel 7:2, Revelation “corners."
  • “squareness" more than “flatness." And no flat-earther believes in a square plane called the earth.
  • “dome" theory, and this theory is fundamental to a flat-earth view.

False Claims Of Flat Earthers

• That a spinning globe around a moving sun theory depends on the Big Bang, therefore if you believe in a spinning globe moving around a sun, you have to believe in the Big Bang.
  • Such a view ignores other reasons for orbit that are much more satisfactory than the Big Bang.
• Satellites…they would burn up due to the high temperature of the Thermosphere.
  • While each molecule of gas in the Thermosphere has extremely high temperatures, there are *very few *molecules at this level. In fact, they raise the surface temperature of the satellite only slightly.
• There are never any stars in NASA's pictures of the moon.
  • This has everything to do with exposure time. A fraction of a second simply isn't capable of capturing the light of the stars.
• If we are speeding through a space of billions of stars, we should never see the same stars.
  • This fails to recognize that the stars are also moving.

Conclusions:

• The Flat Earth theory is held by the most well-meaning of all individuals.
• Being well-intended does not mean being right.
• Every scientific claim of flat earth thinkers can be addressed and sufficiently answered.
• Every Biblical claim of the flat earth thinkers is also addressed by careful exegesis using responsible principles of hermeneutics.