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Avoid Science Falsely So-Called: Flat Earth, the Reformation, and the Science Delusion
HOW CHRISTIANITY HAS COLLECTIVELY COME TO AGREE with an academic Scientism which claims it knows better than God, I cannot say. But this is the soggy marsh by which we’ve fooled ourselves into building God’s kingdom upon, having conceded to the itching ears and salivating mouths of godless philosophers that ‘not all of the Holy Scriptures are so firm a foundation as we once thought,’ and just look around—western civilization is clearly no better for it. The theology of Flat Earth is inseparable from the Bible’s many other fundamental doctrines because God Himself spoke of it—which makes it of equal importance, if not greater still.
Martin Luther and the Reformers held fast to their position. Successive generations did not. This is our inheritance. We were born into the muck and the mire of a humanist catacomb, and if we successfully clamored out into the illuminating light which only God can give, having freed ourselves from the shackles of delusion, it’s because we entrusted the Word—not men, as a lamp unto our feet and a light until our path—and nothing else. The doctrine of “Sola Scriptura!” insists that God has given us a surer word. It takes a strict stance against the vanity of worldly philosophies, human tradition, or counter-revelation by men of the cloth, even those deriving from the halls of Science, if and when they oppose the Lord’s own testimony concerning Him. That sure Word which we hold in our hands is a light-bearer into the glorious reality of eternity itself. The Holy Ghost is not so frivolous a poet—a title sporadically assigned by men who feel His wording does not apply to their higher understandings—as to keep us guessing in the fog of confusion with a plurality of possible meanings. What He has revealed is sure and fundamentally true.
The moral views regarding the universe always have been and will forevermore continue to be, if we simply brace ourselves like men, put forward by God Almighty. The theology of Flat Earth is indispensable to correct views of the Lord Himself, and with good reason. Whenever human souls depart from God’s unbending principle, as is evident from this “renaissance of man,” or the illuminated parade of humanism unfolding before us, they invariably end by departing from Him—eternally.
Martin Luther and the Reformers held fast to their position. Successive generations did not. This is our inheritance. We were born into the muck and the mire of a humanist catacomb, and if we successfully clamored out into the illuminating light which only God can give, having freed ourselves from the shackles of delusion, it’s because we entrusted the Word—not men, as a lamp unto our feet and a light until our path—and nothing else. The doctrine of “Sola Scriptura!” insists that God has given us a surer word. It takes a strict stance against the vanity of worldly philosophies, human tradition, or counter-revelation by men of the cloth, even those deriving from the halls of Science, if and when they oppose the Lord’s own testimony concerning Him. That sure Word which we hold in our hands is a light-bearer into the glorious reality of eternity itself. The Holy Ghost is not so frivolous a poet—a title sporadically assigned by men who feel His wording does not apply to their higher understandings—as to keep us guessing in the fog of confusion with a plurality of possible meanings. What He has revealed is sure and fundamentally true.
The moral views regarding the universe always have been and will forevermore continue to be, if we simply brace ourselves like men, put forward by God Almighty. The theology of Flat Earth is indispensable to correct views of the Lord Himself, and with good reason. Whenever human souls depart from God’s unbending principle, as is evident from this “renaissance of man,” or the illuminated parade of humanism unfolding before us, they invariably end by departing from Him—eternally.
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Published November 21, 2017
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February 6, 2021
This is such a sad book. The author appears completely ignorant of the history of science, biblical exegesis, the writings of the reformers and then tries to convince others that the only way to be an authentic Christian is to reject 2300 years or more of investigation into the natural world. Such a position is not only ignorant but harmful.
The Old Testament is written within a flat earth cosmology simply because that was the best knowledge of the day. It was the world picture of all ancient cultures of the time – Egyptian, Babylonian, Hindu, Chinese, and the rest. No Christian of Jewish doctrine, large or small hangs, off this cosmology. The Old Testament writers were not interested in cosmology, but cosmogony, the spiritual dimension. It is here that the Old Testament writers radically challenged the world view of other ancient, and indeed modern, cultures.
The New Testament writers say nothing about cosmology, being primarily witnesses to Jesus. However it is unlikely that well travelled writers such as Luke, an educated Greek, or Paul, an educated Hellenistic Jew, would have had any issues with the Earth being a global, something that that was well known for centuries by the first century AD.
The Reformers like Calvin and Luther, educated men, would have accepted the Earth as globe, as did all medieval scholars. They were geocentric in their understanding of the place of the Earth, but that was the common understanding of the time. The work of Copernicus was only just becoming known, and both Galileo and Kepler were after their time.
The author also has swallowed the 19th century mythology of conflict between science and Christian faith. This was a fiction created largely by people such as John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White for polemic purposes. It is not held by any historian of science today. To the contrary, research over the past 90 years by Whitehead, Merton Hooykaas, Russell, and many others has shown how the Judeo-Christian world view fostered the development of modern science.
The author is completely wrong in his theology, history, exegesis and science. Don’t waste your time with it.
The Old Testament is written within a flat earth cosmology simply because that was the best knowledge of the day. It was the world picture of all ancient cultures of the time – Egyptian, Babylonian, Hindu, Chinese, and the rest. No Christian of Jewish doctrine, large or small hangs, off this cosmology. The Old Testament writers were not interested in cosmology, but cosmogony, the spiritual dimension. It is here that the Old Testament writers radically challenged the world view of other ancient, and indeed modern, cultures.
The New Testament writers say nothing about cosmology, being primarily witnesses to Jesus. However it is unlikely that well travelled writers such as Luke, an educated Greek, or Paul, an educated Hellenistic Jew, would have had any issues with the Earth being a global, something that that was well known for centuries by the first century AD.
The Reformers like Calvin and Luther, educated men, would have accepted the Earth as globe, as did all medieval scholars. They were geocentric in their understanding of the place of the Earth, but that was the common understanding of the time. The work of Copernicus was only just becoming known, and both Galileo and Kepler were after their time.
The author also has swallowed the 19th century mythology of conflict between science and Christian faith. This was a fiction created largely by people such as John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White for polemic purposes. It is not held by any historian of science today. To the contrary, research over the past 90 years by Whitehead, Merton Hooykaas, Russell, and many others has shown how the Judeo-Christian world view fostered the development of modern science.
The author is completely wrong in his theology, history, exegesis and science. Don’t waste your time with it.
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