Good!
Because I'm quite likely to prove the Earth to be round with my own equipment.
The reason I asked was to gauge how married you were to the idea that the bible teaches the Earth to be flat (which it doesn't at all - by the way).
If the passages of scripture taught what you implied, your "No" answer would be the wrong answer. The point being, of course, that they do not teach what you imply and your unwillingness to hinge your faith on the idea that they do is proof that you know that they don't.
In fact, your use a scripture is akin to the way the Calvinists use scripture. It's irrational and ought to be offensive to any mind searching for the truth. Your own website is proof that you know better.
It affects the salvation of the lost who hear mindless Christian suggest the the Earth is flat and reject the whole thing based on their stupidity.
Further, Christianity absolutely is cosmology.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.
It goes on from there but that first sentence is a foundational one and it is undoubtedly a cosmological in nature, wouldn't you agree?
This is stupid, David. Not only is it a false premise but it would an irrelevant one anyway. I don't care who figured it out or what their motives where for doing the science. Facts are facts. The Earth either orbits the Sun or it doesn't. You don't reject facts of relativity based on who figured them out or why.
False premise. Copernicus is not anti-biblical. They two are not in conflict, as your "no" answer implies.
This sort of thinking is what got the inquisition started, David. You reject ideas/theories as false at the point at which they diverge from reality. That's what science is supposed to be about. You don't reject them based on their philosophical origins. Their origins may be a good reason to investigate their veracity but not reason enough to reject them.
No, it doesn't David. The idea of a flat earth has, in fact, been proven wrong several times on this thread alone not to mention over several centuries of history.
You're well past the consideration stage. You've bought this stupidity hook line and sinker.
It took me less than ten minutes to figure out the method. It's simple. If I was comfortable leaving a multi thousand dollar telescope unattended for anything length of time, I'd have done a long time ago.
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I never interpreted the passages of scriptures that say the stars will fall to earth, I simply quoted scripture, because that's exactly what it says.
I never said that the scripture is without a cosmology, one can be saved if they believe in Flat Earth, Geocentrism, or Heliocentrism. To say you can't be saved unless you are Copernican Heliocentric is absurd.
My reasons for rejecting globe earth is not because of its philosophical origin. That globe earth has a Greek atheistic philosophical origin is an undisputed historical fact. That this view originates about 300 BC should be a clue to you that ancient Biblical cosmology being much older is not the origin of a globe earth. Which, by the way, means the Biblical cosmology has always been considered Flat Earth. I will forgive your ignorance on the matter since history, theology, and philosophy are not your expertise.
"The ancient Israelites envisaged a universe made up of a flat disc-shaped earth floating on water, heaven above, underworld below.[6] Humans inhabited earth during life and the underworld after death, and the underworld was morally neutral;[7] only in Hellenistic times (after c.330 BCE) did Jews begin to adopt the Greek idea that it would be a place of punishment for misdeeds, and that the righteous would enjoy an afterlife in heaven.[8] In this period too the older three-level cosmology in large measure gave way to the Greek concept of a spherical earth suspended in space at the center of a number of concentric heavens.[6]"--Wiki
The spinning globe has never been "empirically verified" by examining earth itself. The people on earth see and experience a flat motionless plane. Alleged verification of a spinning globe has been made only by movement of stars, moon, and sun. That a spinning globe is verified by a space exploration government agency that forgot how to get back to the moon, a feat it supposedly accomplished six times without a hitch, is clearly a lie.
That the earth is motionless and flat to its inhabitants while the sun, moon, and stars move over it is an undeniable universal perception. All ships, cityscapes and landscapes, seen at great distances, are always perfectly perpendicular and not slanted away from the viewer which is another validation of a flat earth.
The spinning orbiting globe is an imagined theoretical construct that contradicts our God created perception. A humanity that questions it's created perception and rejects God's revelation is easy prey for Satanic deception.
P.S. and that water always moves to level, but not really, is the contradiction of all contradictions.
--Dave
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