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Essay On Flat Earth

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Let me put it out here at the outset: I believe the earth is flat. Contrary to the majority view that the earth is a globe and “geoid” (or like an orange) in shape, I am persuaded that the earth is flat. I have carefully considered what I know is clearly a minority position, and here is my case for a flat earth. My source of authority is the Bible. (For evangelicals, could—or should—there be any other? Of course, we are not talking here about liberal evangelicals. They stand for nothing and fall for everything.) For evidence for a flat earth from the secular quarter, you may consult relevant websites. Most informative is the website of The Flat Earth Society, which has a forum, a wiki and a library containing a wealth of the society’s newsletters, newspaper and magazine articles, and archived correspondence and publications. For Christian websites, a good example is that of the Biblical Flat Earth Society initiated by Philip …show more content…

It occurs in the books Deuteronomy, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Mark, Luke and Acts. This covers the sections we call the Pentateuch, Wisdom, Poetry, Prophets, Gospels and Early Church—just about all the sections of the canon (except the Historical Books and the Epistles). We know that a globe does not have ends. Even a globe supposedly flattened at the poles cannot claim to have ends, simply because a flat area—being an expanse of land, cannot qualify to be called an “end.” However, a flat entity can readily be said to have ends, whatever its shape. That is, should a person travel in a straight line in either direction, the journey terminates at one or the other point—the “end” point. Does not Jer 25:33 not make so much more sense when read in this light: “At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere--from one end of the earth to the

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