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Okay so a few questions then...

1.  Where is the edge of this finite space?

It is commonly held by both flat earthers and the Fathers that the periphery of the earth is flanked by mountains and/or ice shelves and said mountains/ice walls meet up with the lower part of the firmament on all sides.  There's a scripture passage in Job* to this effect. The reason no one goes there is because the outer regions are like the off limits mountains in the Old Testament.  Conditions are not hospitable to man.


According to the Bible, we live in a self-contained, three-tiered system {Heaven, Earth, Underworld}:
Job 1:7-8; 2:2-3; 37:12; 38:30-34; Gen. 28:12-17; Ex. 20:4; Num. 16:31-33; Deut. 5:8; 1 Sam. 28:13-14; 1 Chron. 29:11; 2 Chron. 6:4; Psa. 46:8-10; 113:6; 119:19; Isa. 14:9-11; 51:13-14; Joel 2:30; Amos 9:2; Luke 10:15; 16:19-31; Acts 2:19; Phil. 2:10; 1 Pet. 3:18-20; 2 Pet. 2:4-5; Jude 6; Rev. 5:3, 13; 9:1-11; 20:14
There is a solid firmament (dome/vault) over us:
Job 22:14; 37:18; Gen. 1:6-8, 20; Ex. 24:10; Psa. 104:2; Prov. 8:27-28; Isa. 40:21-22; 45:12; 66:1; Jer. 10:12; 51:15; Ezek. 1:22-26; Amos 9:6
God's throne sits above the heavens (waters):
Job 9:8; 22:14; 37:18; Deut. 26:15; Psa. 11:4; 29:3, 10; 33:13; 103:19; 104:2-3; 148:4; Isa. 40:21-22; 66:1; Jer. 10:12-13; Ezek 1:22-28; 28:2; Amos 9:6
The sun, moon and stars are in the firmament {and the stars shall fall to Earth}:
Gen. 1:14-18; Psa. 19:4-6; Isa. 34:4; Dan. 8:10; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:25; 2 Peter 3:10; Rev. 6:13-14; 9:1; 12:4
There are “floodgates” (windows) in the firmament:
Gen. 7:11; 8:2; 2 Kings 7:2-19; Mal. 3:10
The Earth is inscribed in a circular (flat) fashion into something with 4 corners and surrounded by water:
Job 11:9; 26:10-11; 37:3; 38:12-18; Gen. 1:1-9; 49:25; Psa. 24:1-2; 72:8; 136:6; Prov. 8:27-29; Isa. 11:12; 13:5; 40:22; 41:8-9; 44:24; Ezek. 7:2; Dan. 4:10-11, Zech. 9:10; Matt. 4:8; 24:31; Rev. 7:1; 20:8
Earth is a geocentric, stationary world set on pillars:
Job 26:11; 38:4-6; Josh. 10:13; Psa. 19:4-6; 75:3; 104:5; Prov. 8:29; Ecc. 1:5; 1 Sam. 2:8; 2 Sam. 22:8; Joel 2:10; Zech. 12:1
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 1 Corinthians 3:19
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. - Psalm 118:8




Christian Topography by Cosmas Indeocopleustes

Job 26:7. "He stretcheth out the north over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing."  In both, the dust of the earth is gathered into a square box, as in Job 38:38*. "When the dust runneth into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?" which relies on the Septuagint translation used by Constantine of Antioch: "He has included cleave to earth and that it has been poured out as the dust of the earth.

'I have welded it as a square block of stone.'  The use of the same verses suggests a common homiletic understanding of the biblical text as well as a shared conception of the structure of the universe.

Pg 125-127


According to Constantine of Antioch's homiletical interpretation, the verses from Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, and Job provide a concrete understanding of the schematic model representing the pattern of the world.


Page 128

It is written: In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. We therefore first depict along with the earth, the heaven which is vaulted and which has its extremities bound together with the extremities of the earth.  To the best of our ability we have endeavored to delineate it on its western side and its eastern: for these two sides are walls extending from below to the vault above.  There is also the firmament which in the middle is bound together with the first heaven and which, on its upper side has the waters according to divine scripture itself.

How about we use the unanimous interpretation of the Church Fathers?