Four Corners Doesn't Mean Flat Earth

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Pete F. Fiske

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@everyone: we would appreciate feedback on this: THERE ARE NO FLAT EARTH BIBLE VERSES WHATSOEVER!

Hans-Georg Lundahl

The ALLEGED "flat earth" verses fall into three categories.

1) "Circle of the earth" the Greek translation has "guros" = "circumference" and a globe has that too.

2) four corners = are those of the continents (NW corner in Alaska, NE corner in Siberia, SE corner in SE Australia, like Sydney or Hobart, SW corner on Cape Horn)

3) tree in Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Jesus saw all the kingdoms, the one is a dream, not a physical vision at all, the other, I'd say Satan provided "tele-vision" before TV sets were a thing.

He made sure light beams from the capital of China, back then Luoyang, were transmitted by the abilities of angels, and therefore retranslated into light beams on that big mountain where he and Jesus were standing. It doesn't mean Jesus could have seen the streets of Luoyang with a really good binocular pointed that way. And same for Rome, obviously. Or the Maya site San Bartolo.

For category 3, I had to look up what it was on an old post of mine from 2019, in French : Est-ce que la Bible dit que la Terre est plate?

For category 2, I did an update on factchecking how much exactly falls "within the four corners" of inhabited land. Basically, the biggest part outside it is New Zealand. In order not to have East Coast of Australia or Murmansk outside it, I accept some bending of the outer lines between the four corners.

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: One Comment, a Bit Prematurely Under a Long Video · New blog on the kid: Where Are the Four Corners on a Globe? · But What About the West and East Lines?

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Pete F. Fiske

Admin, Star contributor

@everyone: "Take no part in the ...works of darkness (Satan's #FlatEarthLie), but instead expose them."
~ Ephesians 5:11 ESV

Hans-Georg Lundahl

A few Church Fathers or Ecclesiastic writers were in fact flat earth, Lactantius, for instance, I think.

This being so, flat earth as such is arguably not a heresy per se.

However, the contemporary Flat Earth map has more like three than four corners of the continents, so, unlike Lactantius, actually contradicts Apocalypse 7:1.