Tradition

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

(Colossians 2:8) KJV

Sadly, it seems quite a lot of folk are convinced that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat. There isn’t even one passage in the whole Bible that says the earth is flat. Not one. The problem lies in a failure to understand what parts of the Bible are intended to be taken literally, and which are figurative. Correctly discerning which is which, figurative or literal, is a critical skill in the proper handling of the scriptures.

Rightly Divide

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

(2 Timothy 2:15) KJV

In order to rightly divide the word of truth we have to understand the broad narrative of scripture, not just a few odd passages. This is so that, from beginning to end, the story it tells us is consistent with what we know about the character and nature of God. And how do we know the character and nature of God? By studying the scriptures. Understanding can’t be reached by zeroing in on a passage or two and holding them up as an example of something that we have decided to believe. That’s called eisegesis. In science it’s called inductive reasoning.

The Mind of Christ

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

(1 Corinthians 2:16) KJV

Understanding the character and nature of God, or the mind of Christ, has to start with salvation. Salvation is submitting yourself to God. It is accepting that we (and that means me) are sinners and we have come under the judgment of God. God’s righteousness is such that we have fallen short of it, and we are destined to spend an eternity forever separated from Him. Once we submit ourselves to God, through repentance of our sin and by trusting in Jesus Christ as our savior, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. This is where we find discernment.

We have seen some folk claim that the Holy Spirit led them to understand that the Bible teaches a flat earth. Is the earth flat? NO. Flat earth is obviously wrong.

So how do we understand the broad narrative of scripture to be teaching us about a spherical earth? We can’t remember exactly when it happened, but we know that we were on our knees praying, probably in about 2002, asking the Lord for understanding of the 2nd day of creation. It occurred to us, by the Holy Spirit, that the creation of gravity would accomplish the ordering of creation it describes. Subsequent study led us to realize that it’s not only consistent with the broad narrative of scripture, but also gives us a way to account for all physical evidence. This firmly establishes that the creation is earth-centered.

Don’t Waver

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

(James 1:6) KJV

This is the point where we remember wavering, because we realized that as soon as we start talking about a central earth people are going to dismiss me as a kook.

All In

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

(Acts 26:24) KJV

However, then we realized that being dismissed as a kook would be a fulfillment of Biblical prophesy and so we went all-in with the concept of Geocentrosphericity. Here’s the thing that happened next: by committing to an earth-centered model we had to understand why humanity has wholeheartedly accepted a sun-centered model (heliocentric), and what is the theoretical basis of the heliocentric model.

Here’s some logic for you: If God is true and the Bible is 100% trustworthy, and the Bible meticulously and irrevocably builds for us an earth centered creation, then therefore everything that is used as evidence for an heliocentric system can also be shown to be evidence for the Geocentrospheric system.

Supposed Proofs of Heliocentricity

1. Aberration of starlight
2. Aether drag
3. Angular size of the sun
4. Aristarchus
5. Bessel and 61 Cygni
6. Bradley and Molyneux
7. Citing incorrect Geocentric models
8. Copernicus
9. Coriolis effect
10. Doppler and the Voyagers
11. Eclipses
12. Foucault pendulum
13. Gravitational assists
14. Gravity
15. Kepler’s Laws
16. Lorentz’ length contraction
17. Luminiferous aether
18. Mass of the sun / Newtonian physics
19. Moons of Jupiter
20. Phases of Venus
21. Procession of the equinoxes
22. Pulsars
23. Redshift / Universe expansion
24. Relativistic reference frames
25. Retrograde / relative motion
26. Sagans
27. Seasons and weather
28. Spacecraft
29. Special relativity
30. Stellar parallax
31. Stellar spectroscopy
32. Transit of the ISS during an eclipse
33. Transit of Venus
34. Variation in the sun’s orbital radius

Guess what? They all can be. This is exegesis, also called deductive reasoning.

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