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Offline Always

Re: Either more aesthetically pleasing, i.e., more beautiful?
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2023, 05:51:23 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on June 30, 2023, 08:06:33 AM
I wasn't debating Flat Earth just your question about aesthetics.  What I said was a false dichotomy was between flat and spherical, because flat earth model actually holds the world overall to be spherical.  Aesthetically, I find the picture above MUCH more aesthetically pleasing than the notion of a ball floating in space.  In the ball model, where's Heaven?, where's the Throne of God?  Where did Our Lord ascend to?  Into space?  Did He merely feign the appearance of an ascent due to the ignorance of the masses, when He was really just sliding into a different dimension?  Or did He keep flying through space until He got to Heaven, wherever that is?  Ascent into Heaven and Descent into Hell become strange notions on a ball, since there is not real "up" or "down", but moving outward and inward.

I wasn't debating Flat Earth either.  Thank you for your thoughtful answer.
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Offline Always

Re: Either more aesthetically pleasing, i.e., more beautiful?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2023, 04:09:27 PM »

I found it rather amazing that on an Internet search I could not find a single photo anywhere of a globe earth model let alone a flat earth model at the Vatican -- nothing, nada, zip except the image below of faux Pope Pius XIII alongside a globe earth.

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Re: Either more aesthetically pleasing, i.e., more beautiful?
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2023, 08:36:35 AM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on June 29, 2023, 08:36:35 PM
False dichotomy.  World is spherical in shape and at the center of the universe, even though the surface that we walk on is flat.


I've often wondered why in so many statues, Our Lord is holding a spherical earth, but the earth is split in half by what appears to be gold partitions, horizontal and vertical, with a Cross on the top (Heaven?). This would coincide with this model of earth.
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Either more aesthetically pleasing, i.e., more beautiful?
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2023, 11:06:26 AM »
Quote from: josefamenendez on July 04, 2023, 08:36:35 AM
I've often wondered why in so many statues, Our Lord is holding a spherical earth, but the earth is split in half by what appears to be gold partitions, horizontal and vertical, with a Cross on the top (Heaven?). This would coincide with this model of earth.

You have the entire Flemish art school with a series of Salvator Mundi paints that look like this.  Notice inside the globe.  You can do a Google search "Salvator Mundi Flemish" to see many of these.  In fact, even the DaVinci version appears to show the sky and stars in the upper part of the globe, and Dr. Sungenis misses the significance of this in using the DaVinci version on the cover of his anti-Flat Earth book.

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