Got it. Despite the fact that I have flown "around" the world multiple times. And given your lacks of tolerance for ambiguity, I suspect I have studied far more than you and am certainly better educated.
I am now going to follow Mark Twain's advice about attempting to engage with people of your ilk.
God be with you and keep on doing any good things that you do by frequenting this wonderful forum.
If you have ever actually flown around the world as I have multiple times, you would know that the fact of a spherical earth is not a mere theory. No pilot may navigate the globe with the assumption that the earth is flat. Period.
Unless you hold 3 STEM degrees at bachelors and graduate levels and an MBA, I suspect that you do not have as much formal education, as I do. As though that matters. That said, the fact of the spherical dimensionality of the Earth is not a heavy lift for most sufficiently educated people.
If your "God be with you" is not just a throw away line, when the Scripture says in Psalm 103:12 "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us," that promise must be true from any given point on the surface of this Earth.
If the Earth was flat, assuming the known curvature of the Earth calculated at ~ 12500 miles, the maximum linear E-W distance possible without being a spherical globe (imagine an orange cut in half) would mean that God would be limited to separating you from your sin to only a distance of 12500 miles; however, sin is removed eternally, without limit, and in perpetuity, signifying that East chases West or the West, East in perpetuity. Therefore "East from West" may only be determined at a fixed point on Earth if Earth is a sphere.
The only way the East from West concept may be universally true for man is if the "circle of the Earth" spoken of in Isaiah 40:22 is a sphere: " It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in."
Just curious: do you contend that any of the other planets, their moons, and the Sun in our solar system may be flat also? If not why not? Do you agree that their rotations and surfaces are readily acknowledged to be spherical through observation (e.g., pictures taken from the Voyager 1 and 2 craft as they did planet and moon pass by's)? Is there a flat planet anywhere that has been observed that can support your speculation about the Earth being flat? If the Earth is flat, yet none of the other planets in the solar system are observed to be flat, given observed gravitational forces to which I alluded earlier, how would you account for the reason that the Earth would be flat, when gravitational forces of heavenly bodies pull in all directions, and allow for flights of spaceships into deep space to be possible at all?
Given your admission to having accomplished some world wide travel yourself, what did the flip side of the earth look like? Is there an East Pole and a West Pole? When the pilot of your plane flew did he do so in part as oriented in his cockpit compass to a magnetic North or to a magnetic East or West?
If the questions I have asked and my explanations I have furnished continue to puzzle you, how about writing Elon Musk a letter at SpaceX and see if you can get his opinion on whether he designed his rockets and their guidance systems with the basic premise that the Earth is spherical.
Got it. Despite the fact that I have flown "around" the world multiple times. And given your lacks of tolerance for ambiguity, I suspect I have studied far more than you and am certainly better educated.
I am now going to follow Mark Twain's advice about attempting to engage with people of your ilk.
God be with you and keep on doing any good things that you do by frequenting this wonderful forum.
If you have ever actually flown around the world as I have multiple times, you would know that the fact of a spherical earth is not a mere theory. No pilot may navigate the globe with the assumption that the earth is flat. Period.
Unless you hold 3 STEM degrees at bachelors and graduate levels and an MBA, I suspect that you do not have as much formal education, as I do. As though that matters. That said, the fact of the spherical dimensionality of the Earth is not a heavy lift for most sufficiently educated people.
If your "God be with you" is not just a throw away line, when the Scripture says in Psalm 103:12 "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us," that promise must be true from any given point on the surface of this Earth.
If the Earth was flat, assuming the known curvature of the Earth calculated at ~ 12500 miles, the maximum linear E-W distance possible without being a spherical globe (imagine an orange cut in half) would mean that God would be limited to separating you from your sin to only a distance of 12500 miles; however, sin is removed eternally, without limit, and in perpetuity, signifying that East chases West or the West, East in perpetuity. Therefore "East from West" may only be determined at a fixed point on Earth if Earth is a sphere.
The only way the East from West concept may be universally true for man is if the "circle of the Earth" spoken of in Isaiah 40:22 is a sphere: " It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in."
Just curious: do you contend that any of the other planets, their moons, and the Sun in our solar system may be flat also? If not why not? Do you agree that their rotations and surfaces are readily acknowledged to be spherical through observation (e.g., pictures taken from the Voyager 1 and 2 craft as they did planet and moon pass by's)? Is there a flat planet anywhere that has been observed that can support your speculation about the Earth being flat? If the Earth is flat, yet none of the other planets in the solar system are observed to be flat, given observed gravitational forces to which I alluded earlier, how would you account for the reason that the Earth would be flat, when gravitational forces of heavenly bodies pull in all directions, and allow for flights of spaceships into deep space to be possible at all?
Given your admission to having accomplished some world wide travel yourself, what did the flip side of the earth look like? Is there an East Pole and a West Pole? When the pilot of your plane flew did he do so in part as oriented in his cockpit compass to a magnetic North or to a magnetic East or West?
If the questions I have asked and my explanations I have furnished continue to puzzle you, how about writing Elon Musk a letter at SpaceX and see if you can get his opinion on whether he designed his rockets and their guidance systems with the basic premise that the Earth is spherical.