Comments by "RB 70" (@RB-bd5tz) on "Free Documentary - History" channel.

  1.  @hanker8hg7  Right off the top: I'm a Christian, but sorry, I have to disagree. I actually observe the sky now & then, and everything I see corresponds to the heliocentric model, and I have no problem with that. Jesus made "the worldS," (Hebrews 1:2 & 11:3), which I understand to be others like our own, orbiting their stars. I haven't seen a flat-earth model that makes any sense (e.g., in all of them, we'd be able to see both the sun and moon at all times, and the moon phases wouldn't exist). I'm also okay with some of the Bible being metaphorical or poetic, and not literal. If the earth is literally God's footstool, why aren't we always able to see His feet? Also, when I search for "Pastor preaches flat earth", YT doesn't give me any results like what you describe. Please provide a link.
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  2.  @hanker8hg7  I go by the Bible, science (unbiased science confirms the Bible), and logic. Isaiah 40:22 "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth ..." Job 26:7 "He ... hangeth the earth upon nothing." The only way the earth can appear circular, no matter what angle you look at it from, is if it is a sphere. A former pastor of mine actually knows ancient Hebrew, and tells me that the word for "circle" also means "sphere", depending on context. Also, empty space is, for all intents and purposes, "nothing". You didn't answer any of my questions. There are so many common-sense phenomena that don't work in a flat earth model, e.g., when you look into the southern sky from Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town, or Tasmania, you see the Southern Cross. This means that the south pole is a point, like the north pole. On a plane, they would all be looking "outward" and see different stars. You would not have a globe earth with a big bang, either: all you would have is a pretty even dispersion of particles throughout the universe. Matter from a big bang would not coalesce into a collection of rotating globular bodies that revolve around each other. One other thing: a Christian doesn't say to people, "go away little one"; that is a haughty attitude (Proverbs 16:18).
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