It requires mental gymnastics to try to reconcile what is observable and reasonable with FE. If you refuse to perform “mental gymnastics” then it sounds like you refuse to learn and to think, and to use reason. Might as well conclude that in verse 3, the God has feet, and the wind has real wings, probably with feathers (since we’re taking the liberty to draw implications without “mental gymnastics”) and God walks on those wings with His physical feet. Scripture says so, don’t deny it.
2. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion
Where does it say “over the flat earth”? Define a pavilion. Is there any limit to how large it can be? It’s a simile, a comparison. How do you expect so much detail to be expressed in artistic verse? And yet, I would argue that there is much meaning there since the latin word for pavilion means both butterfly and tent. Heaven is beautiful and broad like a butterfly’s wings. Given a large globe, heaven will appear stretched out as a tent no matter where you are. If it can stretch out over a flat earth, it can stretch over a globe. Great are God’s works, and so great will be the expanse of His tents.
You claim the earth is flat, and yet it has mountains, valleys, plains, and basins. Far from flat is it’s appearance. Oh, but you have to look at the big picture to see that as a whole it is flat? Why do you refuse to look at the big picture to see that it is a globe? You only rely on local small scale observation to conclude it is flat, though seeing mountains and even gently rolling hills and plains should tell you that you can’t rely on such a perspective. God does things with perfection, is it impossible for God to create a moon, an earth orbiting giant rock that turns at just the right rate of speed to always face earth the same? Do you put limits on what is possible for God? I would argue that God has so clothed the earth perfectly as a modest woman, whose curves and fundamental features are well hidden.
5. Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.
(Psalm 103)
“Upon its own” to me sounds like a turning inward, a sort of selfishness. It is perfectly compatible with a globe, which curves to rest upon itself, its own bases. The Haydock commentary says “It is fixed by its own gravity in the center”, and regarding
for ever “The established order shall subsist, though the earth may move”.
The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.
(Psalms 92:1)
According to the Haydock commentary: this could indicate the Church, that it will not fail, and/or the established order of the world will not be disturbed, further saying that this is not a proof that the earth doesn’t turn on its axis daily and orbit the sun. This implies that if the established order of the world is such that the earth does rotate on an axis and orbit the sun, such order will not be changed. I however am also quite open to a globe earth that does rotate and doesn’t orbit, and one that doesn’t rotate or orbit. I was taught that the psalms are the word of Christ and/or the Church. It may be best to try to apply anything in the psalms as much as possible to Christ and the Church.
And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down the space of one day.
(Josue 10:13)
The Haydock commentary says that it is immaterial whether the sun turns around the earth, or the contrary. The Hebrews generally supposed that the earth was immovable, and on this idea Josue addressed the sun. So if they thought the earth rotated on an axis, he probably would have told the earth to stand still. What matters is that the sun didn’t appear to move, and the day was lengthened.
Want to know another thing I learned from Flat Earthers? The fact that molten iron has a CURIE POINT which precludes normal magnetic properties. When you heat up metal to a certain temperature, you're not going to get a magnetic field anymore. Given the alleged diameter of the earth, the heat and pressures involved, it's absolutely impossible for that core to be generating the magnetic field we can observe with countless instruments.
How do we know that pressure doesn't affect the curie point? I'm fine with the center of the earth being empty, but hell also doesn't need any open space because only spirits are now there. Physical human bodies are still dust on the surface.
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