A few thoughts on a Flat Earth!

I received the revelation that the earth is not a globe spinning around at 1000 mph back in December 2016, the whole world suddenly became flat, to me at least!
I live on an island peninsula about a mile or so from the most northern point where there is a lighthouse. I can see with my naked eyes as far south as the Isle of Skye and as far north in a linear direction toward Cape Wrath, which is about the most northern tip of the Scottish mainland, I estimate this distance to be approximately 120 miles. Turning counterclockwise toward the north east are the Faeroe Islands with Iceland beyond. Of course, from my vantage point, my eyesight doesn't allow me to see the Faeroe Islands, much less Iceland. I reckon that the seascape my eyesight permits me to see (that is the flat line of the horizon of the sea from the extreme north east toward the most northerly point of mainland Scotland down to the Isle of Skye to be considerably in excess of a 1000 miles. The point I am making is that I don't see any slight curvature in the horizon, it all looks completely flat. It has been calculated that there should be an 8" drop for every one mile if the earth were truly a globe. In my view, simple maths dictate that I should see a noticeable drop, but I don't. The ball-earthers have many and varied theories as to why this is, including the unproven myth of gravity! Oh, they do have 'science' on their side!

Imagine if you can, that you are a single grain of salt lying atop of your dining table, what would you see? Perhaps a better analogy would be to imagine yourself to be a single grain of sand (for that is our Scriptural analogy in respect of population growth; "thy seed...as the sand which is upon the sea shore" Genesis 22.17) sat on a perfectly flat table top that is say some 2,000,000 miles square, what would you see? I think all we would be able to observe is an endless horizon disappearing ad infinitum! Which is in reality all we do actually see, but obviously our earth has hills, valleys, mountains, lakes and whatever else thrown into the mix to obscure our perspective.
If we are sat down and then proceed to stand up; the horizon also rises up with (and down with) us, this is no different to taking off, and landing,  in an airplane; the horizon ever rises, and falls, according to our perspective, we never see beyond it! Of course I understand that those who believe we live on a globe will put this phenomena down to the 'fact' that the earth is curved. But nevertheless, I believe that it can be demonstrated from what I have written above, that we could never ever see beyond the horizon (even on a flat plane-because of our limited perspective). I believe that (regardless of mans claims-esp. NASA); however high we can go up vertically we will never be able to take in all the land underneath us. I believe that all we could see would be a recognizable land mass of the known nations surrounded by the Antarctic circle, that is we are encompassed by this giant ring of ice, the oceans don't surround it! Now, as for the depth of Antarctica, can we know it? I did 'pen' a small e-book called "Antarctica Does It End? Hast thou comprehended the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all". If any visitors here would like a copy, I will mail one upon request. I remember many years ago that it was said (could it be other than NASA?) that upon 're-entry' space capsules will "burn up" unless an orderly 're-entry' is commissioned. Now, I don't believe it is possible to exit, much less 're-enter' the firmament, for it is FIRM! The heavenly vault is indeed "firm" it is the ceiling that God will not permit access to. It may be that when NASA's rockets/space capsules have attempted to leave the lower heavens, they may have "burnt up" in the process, for they hit the roof of the biblical firmament, blasting themselves to pieces! Forget "re-entry" perhaps this "burn up" happened to rockets/capsules on their attempted exit from the lower heavens?

The flat earth view obviously raises some serious questions about UFO's and extra-terrestrial life; if the earth be as expansive as the heavens above; for God's word clearly says "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" Genesis 1.1, the earth is spoken of as an equal antithesis to the heaven, not merely one of a billion 'planets' out there! The Bible describes the sun and the moon as "two great lights", I believe these to be the same size and the same distance from the earth, they are both "in the firmament" Genesis 1.15. These two "great lights" (one "greater" the other "lesser") were made on the "fourth day", whereas "the heaven and the earth" were made on "the first day". Before I became convinced of the flat earth truth I had visions of a globe spinning around a non-existent sun! nevertheless it is written, "is there anything too hard for me?" Jeremiah 32.27. The Bible knows nothing of 'planets' as we generally understand them to be, when we read the creation account in Genesis, it is said "he made the stars also". The word "planets" is mentioned once in the KJV in 2 Kings 23.5, and in the margin they are depicted as the "twelve signs" which I believe to be the "Mazzaroth" in Job 38.32 where the marginal footnote depicts this name to be "the twelve signs".

Is it not strange that we have never heard of alien abductions before the term "flying-saucer" came into popular use since the 1930's, the start of the modern "sci-fi" era? The widely accepted view is that there are 'aliens' from far flung galaxies, billions of light years from us that are so advanced compared to us that they can travel these vast distances in "a twinkling of an eye"! Well, how come there are no recorded accounts until very recently of these 'advanced aliens' flying their saucers? Is their such a thing as a 'light year' even? It can be seen that the heliocentric theory is directly responsible for science fiction and all the false theorizing of "science falsely so called" 1 Timothy 6.20. I believe the heliocentric lie to be a bigger deception than the theory of evolution, for without the former, the latter would never have spawned in due time.
Apparently man landed on the moon in 1969, I was 8 years old then, and our technology was so 'advanced' then, for I remember my father hand cranking his car with a starting handle! Think on these things!

Regarding airplane routes, flight distances from places such as Australia to Chile, namely Sydney to Santiago. It has been said that such routes prove the flat-earth model to be false. But, when I started to wrack my brains out on this, I had an 'eureka' moment! These plane routes in the southern 'hemisphere' so-called are built on a false premise. Lets reverse the order, imagine that the Bible taught in no uncertain language that the earth was a globe spinning around the sun? Along comes Copernicus who says "no, the earth is flat!" In the course of time the flat-earth model becomes the accepted standard. The world evolves and the commercial airline industry develops, flight routes are mapped all across the flat earth. Since the days of our flat-earth Copernicus, there have been a very small few who could never be convinced that the earth was other than a ball. This number increases with the onset of the internet age and many are starting to question the long held flat-earth view! You-tube comes on song and those that are debunking the rising biblical ball earth view are saying "the flight time on a ball-earth for Sydney to Santiago would be a lot shorter than if the world were flat- this proves that the earth isn't a ball!" Whereas the oft repeated mantra is "the flight times of the southern-hemisphere routes would be impossibly long". Get it? Sometimes I feel like I am coming up on the down train!

I have much more to say on this.

To be Continued.

The Wheat and the Tares

The Wheat and the Tares

This parable teaches that there are true and false believers together growing in the world. Anyone that has a very basic knowledge of gardening, would know that if you were to sow your seeds at the beginning of the growing season, and left them untended until the time of reaping, or harvest, what sight would await them!
You would hardly be able to see what you had planted, such will it be at the end of the age. 'Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it'  Matthew 7.14. The Saviour in the very next verse warns us to 'Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.' To any true Christian with a small amount of Biblical discernment, it cannot have escaped their notice the sheer volume of men and women the world around that have set up in ministry work, even calling themselves 'prophets', 'apostles','bishops' and other such titles. One only has to go on TBN to see this to be the case. Some of these people have considerable followings and are basically nothing more than pantomine performers. They often talk fast and furiously, throwing Bible verses about, mixing these with whatever they may be teaching. This has a 'form of godliness' 2 Timothy 3.5, and the Apostle goes on to tell believers to 'turn away' from such people. The problem that I see is that these false teachers, prophets are not entirely to blame, they are feeding into a market place, for people love to be deceived. For 2 Timothy 4.3 says very clearly "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." Note that the verse says " after their own lusts"!