Flat Earth… Really?

flat earth caricatureMost people have a caricature in mind, such as the picture on the right, when the subject of the “flat earth” comes up. I hope you will not immediately reject the idea based on the “straw man” argument the world uses to get people to dismiss the idea out of hand before ever really considering it properly. An investigation into the claims of biblical cosmology will convince us just how propagandized we are. In addition to inundating society with endless images of the globe, our “puppet masters” have pre-loaded our minds with a ridiculous image of the flat earth. Their first defense against the biblical earth, which is a stationary plane covered by a dome called the firmament, is to make us feel foolish for even considering it.

Every classroom has its mandatory globe. Since 1955, the movie and entertainment industry has incessantly promoted the idea that the earth is a globe. Interestingly, the timing corresponds to mysterious developments in Antarctica, the Antarctic Treaty, and the formation of NASA.

Propagandists know that if a lie is told often enough, in the minds of the hearer it becomes the truth.

This is what went on in Nazi Germany and what is going on around the world today. We have been brainwashed in many areas, not just regarding the nature of the cosmos.

No doubt the term “flat earth” is not the ideal choice of words, but it is one with which our position has been saddled. That is one reason why I call this series “Biblical Cosmology.”

The earth and heavens presented in the Bible are very different from the version we have been taught from infancy.

Another, perhaps preferred, descriptor for where we live is “true earth” or “biblical earth.” If you decide to continue reading this series, I ask you to keep an open mind, especially if this is all new to you. We cannot overcome a lifetime of indoctrination in just a few minutes.

As we research biblical cosmology, we will discover that when the Bible says that Satan is a liar (John 8:44) who deceives the whole world (Revelation 12:9), it is not using poetic language. It is the absolute truth.

The globe – heliocentric model of the earth gained traction around 500 years ago, thanks to Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. Today it largely has displaced the Bible’s account in Genesis.

Today most Christians accept the heliocentric version of the cosmos and try to accommodate Scripture to fit it somehow.

I am convinced that this cannot be done without twisting the meaning. (I have written another article specifically addressing this issue.) My goal and hope is that these articles will help the reader to transition from what he have been told since childhood to a firm conviction that what the Bible says about the cosmos is true.

The Bible’s Authority

The Bible is our authority in every area of life, including science.

It is not a book written from man’s perspective, but from God’s. If we believe the Bible is absolutely true, we cannot honestly think that God said what he did in Genesis and elsewhere because people at that time were not ready for the truth, since they were what some call “pre-scientific.” God gives us the truth, whether we think it is true or not. He cannot lie. He says what he means and means what he says.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16–17 (NKJV)

Every single word of God in the Bible is true, including what it says about the cosmos.

We are commanded to live by every word that proceeds from God. If we take upon ourselves to claim that some words are not scientifically accurate, we make ourselves judges of God’s Word. What other verses will we dispose of because they do not fit our current views on things?

It’s a slippery slope when we start down the path of rejecting some of the Bible because it offends us or makes us look ignorant in the eyes of the world.

Perhaps we are not bold enough to reject God’s Word, but instead we try to alter its meaning. Instead of allowing it to say what it clearly says (exegesis), we bend and twist it to say what we have predetermined that it should say (eisegesis).

Peter warned that people would do this.

And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him—16 speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will result in their destruction. 2 Peter 3:15–16 (NLT)

An example of this is when commentators try to make “evening and morning, the first day” into an indefinably long period of time. A similar twist is when interpreters translate the Hebrew word for firmament (raqia) into “sky” or “expanse” without the least reference to its solidity.

The Bible tells us that we are not to provide a “private interpretation” to God’s Word.

But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. 2 Peter 1:20–21 (NASB95)

This means we must approach scripture with reverence, realizing that we simply cannot lay on top of it our own preference or some scientific worldview to show us how to interpret its words. We must diligently seek to understand what God meant it to say. For this we need the Holy Spirit and an honest heart.

As disciples, we will accept what the Bible says, no matter what!

hebrew earthHermeneutics

If we have been viewing Genesis and other passages of the Bible through the lens of the heliocentric view of the cosmos, we will have to make a rather huge adjustment. The authors of the Bible believed no such thing. The Hebrew conception of the earth and heavens, as believed by Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel, etc., the ones who authored its words, looked like the image on the right according to Bible scholars.

One of the most important principles for Bible interpretation (hermeneutics) is that the Scriptures must at least mean what the authors intended.

When Moses wrote Genesis, the model of the earth enclosed in the firmament is what he meant to communicate to us regarding the nature and construction of earth and heaven.

Another important hermeneutical principle is that we must take the Bible literally, except when the context makes it clear we should not. We are not permitted to relegate to symbolism what the author intended us to take literally.

We would never reinterpret Genesis to accommodate a heliocentric cosmos, unless we presuppose modern astrophysics to be true. We have to decide whether to believe God or Copernicus.

The Earth’s Curvature on the Globe Model

I do not think I will ever forget watching a clear demonstration that we can see much, much farther than we are supposed to see over water, if the globe theory of the earth’s shape were actually true. Most people do not know how much the earth’s surface is supposed to curve, if we are indeed a globe. There are websites that calculate the required amount of curvature over distance using spherical trigonometry, such as he Earth Curvature Calculator. For simplicity’s sake, the following parabolic formula works up to a distance of about 2000 miles. After that, there will be some slight discrepancies with the trig calculation, but nothing significant.

Easy Formula: The Earth's Predicted Curvature = 8 inches times the distance in mileage squared.

Here are some sample distances with the calculated required curvature, if the earth were indeed a globe. 8 inches equals .66 feet.

Distance Formula
Expected Curvature
1 mile 8″X1X1 8 inches
2 miles 8″X2X2 32 inches
3 miles 8″X3X3 6 feet
4 miles 8’X4X4 10.66 feet
5 miles 8″X5X5 16.66 feet
10 miles 8″X10X10 66 feet
20 miles 8″X20X20 264 feet
100 miles 8″X100X100 1.25 miles
Perspective vs Curvature

When objects move away from us, optical perspective due to shape of our eyes make them appear to disappear from the ground or water up. Aristotle believed this was proof of the earth’s curvature. Bill Nye the Science Guy says the same thing, much to his shame. Thanks to the power of telescopes and zoom cameras, we can bring objects back into view that had “disappeared” due to perspective, all the way down to the hull in the water for boats. Even the setting sun can be brought back above the horizon line using a zoom lens.

There are so many different proofs that the earth does not curve that I cannot list them all here, but, if you want to do your own research, I have placed many of them on the Resource Page connected to this series. I encourage you to check it out. Better yet, do your own empirical experiments. Below I give you a very short video demonstration, perhaps to whet your curiosity.

If I am right in saying that the earth is not a globe but a stationary plane, then it is obvious that we are being lied to on an almost unbelievable scale.

The level of conspiracy to hide the truth is so great that many people reject the possibility of this happening out of hand. My eyes, however, were opened to large scale deception during the supposed Covid pandemic, when I observed a conspiracy between government, media, science, education, and the medical establishment to push the vaccine lie. Since then I have no problem believing in large scale deception.

The world lies in the power of the father of lies; so, why would we think mass deception would not be present?

Satan always has counter arguments to keep people away from the truth, just as he did in the garden when he flatly contradicted God’s Word to Eve. The typical counter to our being able to see so far is that it is because of refraction. Refraction, or lensing, does happen, but it cannot account for our ability to see beyond what the curvature formula tells us we should. In fact, in the example below, one of the laser shots is made over ice at night when the air temperature is colder than the water (ice) temperature, a condition in which refraction cannot take place.

As you can imagine, when I realized that water does not bend around the surface of the supposed globe, I was shocked to realize that what I had been told about the globe is a lie!

That put me into a state of cognitive dissonance. I had new evidence that clearly contradicted what I had been taught by parents, teachers, TV, NASA, and renowned scientists. It went against all the supposed video and photographic evidence provided by NASA of a spherical earth suspended in space. (I will write more about NASA’s fakery later.) As you would expect, I had a thousand questions as would anyone who is confronted with evidence that contradicts what he or she had previously believed. This new evidence indicated that the whole world has been deceived! Was I crazy? My wife and I began to investigate further.

One thing we must immediately come to terms with is that no one understands how everything works.

Just because we cannot fully explain how everything in the cosmos works does not mean, however, that the evidence of the earth’s being a plane is false. Instead, it means that we have a lot to learn.

We went back to the Bible to see what it really says. As you can imagine, we saw scriptures with a new set of eyes. It is all right there! We just could not see it previously because of our brainwashed condition. We had unwittingly accommodated the scriptures to conform to the heliocentric version of the cosmos. In some cases, we just did not even think about it, thinking it was too difficult for us to understand, another of Satan’s tricks.

Why the Lie?

One of the most frequently asked questions from anyone who is first confronted with the claims we are covering here is, “What could possibly motivate people to lie on such a grand scale?”

The simple answer is that Satan is deliberately working to blind us to the testimony of God’s creation. (Psalm 19:1 and Romans 1:20)

In place of the Bible’s testimony, the devil provides us with a pagan version of the cosmos designed to strip us of any belief in God at all. When we come to believe that the earth and heavens are exactly as described in the Bible, God seems closer than ever. All we have to do is look up, just like the Bible says. His throne is above the firmament, not in some hard to imagine spiritual non-location. A common testimony of non-believers and atheists who come to believe in the flat earth is that they can no longer deny God’s existence. Like a turtle on a fence post, the firmament did not get there by itself! (Here is a link to listen to some testimonies.)

I assure you that I never had a desire to become a “flat earther.” No one wants to be regarded as a kook by friends and family, but to deny what I see with my eyes and in Scripture, would be dishonest.

Here is a humorous short video that captures what I mean.

Google even feels the need to attach a warning to every YouTube video supporting the flat earth position. It is my opinion that they would not do this if this truth did not threaten their global deception scheme. 

Google seems to choose to push people away from areas where they are hiding something.

Those of us who see this truth realize that we are engaged in a type of battle reminiscent of David versus Goliath. The government controls the media, NASA, and higher education. NASA has a budget of around $60 million per day to develop their computer generated images of “outer space,” satellites, the International Space Station, and Hubble telescope wonders. All we have on our side is a dedicated cadre of YouTubers, Rumblers, and writers. But, with God’s help, that will be enough.

My prayer is that God will lift the shroud of deception off the people of the earth, that once again we will realize that the Bible is absolutely true when it comes to science as well as spiritual matters. May our eyes be opened to the heavenly testimony.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

There is plenty to talk about. I hope you will continue with me.

Presuppositions: Are they biblical?

Presuppositions are beliefs that we consider to be self-evident, taken by faith, and requiring no proof.

For example, many people believe in God without being able to prove his existence empirically. Hopefully we have what we consider to be good reasons for believing our presuppositions, but we will never be able to prove them to a doubter. Everyone has presuppositions, even those who claim to be purely rational and scientific. To claim that we can think rationally is a presupposition, especially if one believes in a randomly evolved universe.

If our presuppositions are correct, they will help us arrive at proper conclusions. If they are incorrect, they will lead us into further error.

In order to establish a biblical cosmology, we must agree upon certain presuppositions, some of which I have listed below. If we can agree on these, it will help us see eye-to-eye as we move forward. I have put the corresponding presuppositions of the Big Bang heliocentric side, as well.

Biblical Cosmology Presuppositions
Popular Cosmology Presuppositions
God exists, and he created the heavens and earth out of nothing by speaking it into existence. There is no God. The universe and all life self-created through the Big Bang and randomly evolved.
God gave us the Bible, which, according to its own testimony, is absolutely true. All its words are inspired by God. (2 Timothy 3:16) Therefore, we can rely upon the truth of every word. (Proverbs 30:5, John 17:17)  The Bible was written by men and is fallible, outdated, and not a reliable source of information about scientific matters.
We should accept that the words of the Bible are literally true, unless it is clear from the context that we should interpret them in some other way, such as symbolically. We should not impose upon the scriptures an outside presupposition to make them mean something different from the author’s original intent (2 Peter 3:16); although, some scriptures can have multiple meanings beyond the author’s intent.  When the Bible conflicts with established scientific consensus, we must interpret the Bible in a way (symbolically, poetically) that agrees with science.
The Bible is not merely a book that communicates spiritual and moral truths, but it also is correct when it addresses practical, historical, and scientific issues. If the Bible has relevance, it is only in spiritual and moral matters.
God did not “dumb down” his inspired and true Word to accommodate the ignorance of what some call the “pre-scientific” era. If God did inspire the Bible, clearly he spoke in ways to accommodate the level of comprehension of the writers and readers. 

If we can accept these five presuppositions, we can conclude that the Creator God of the Bible was present at creation, knows all things, says what he means, and means what he says. (Numbers 23:19) Many times God does not tell us everything we want to know, but he is always truthful.

None of us were there and have no right to question God’s veracity.

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Job 38:4 (NASB95)

Therefore, it is reasonable and mandatory for us to believe the assertions made by the Creator in the Bible over the theories and declarations of fallible men, no matter how intelligent, credentialed, or admired they may be.

The Bible is our most reliable source of truth in all matters. We believe it gives us accurate information regarding the order of creation, the nature of the heavens, and the design of the earth. (Romans 3:4)

The Bible also teaches us that we have an adversary called Satan who is a liar by nature. Jesus said that no truth dwells in him. (John 8:44) According to Scripture, he actively deceives the whole world (Revelation 12:9), which lies in his power (1 John 5:19). Only those who belong to Christ have escaped from his kingdom of darkness (1 John 5:5). Only those in whom dwells the Holy Spirit of truth and who study and believe the Bible have the ability to detect and defend themselves against the devil’s lies. How sad it is, however, when born-again sons and daughters of the God of truth are duped into believing Satan’s lies! Tragically this happens on a large scale.

There is a worldwide satanic plan to deceive the masses regarding the design of the earth and heavens in order to hide the existence of the Creator.

His plan is also to convince people that we are insignificant and worthless in the grand scheme of an infinite chaotic universe. He wants us to believe that we live in a rather hopeless situation, that our “planet” is in mortal danger, especially from the “virus” of humanity. He also aims to trick people into believing that the Bible is unreliable. (Psalm 2:1-4) How better can he do that than by convincing us that the very first chapter of Genesis is a fairy tale account of creation.

Conversely, our Creator God is revealing the truth about the heavens and earth in order to awaken people to his existence and to convince us to place our faith and allegiance in our Lord Jesus.

It is my hope that this series of articles will assist you to gain a better understanding of the shape and design of the earth and heavens as revealed in the Bible so that your confidence in the Bible and God will increase.

Are These the Days of Elijah?

A popular Christian song a few years ago was titled “Days of Elijah.” It focused on the coming of the Lord, a worthy and relevant topic. However, if these are indeed the days of Elijah, God is calling us to do what Elijah did – to boldly confront idolatry and challenge people to choose between serving God and the devil.

Baal worship was prevalent in Elijah’s day and still exists, but an even bigger and more ubiquitous idol confronting the church in our time is the false god of science.

In Daniel’s day, king Nebuchadnezzar erected a giant image of himself and commanded all his idol of nebuchadnezzarsubjects to worship it in a grand display of devotion, unity, pomp, and ceremony. Any who refused was condemned to death. We know the story of three brave young men who chose to endure the king’s wrath rather than betray the one true God. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego courageously stood against enormous peer pressure and the threat of imminent death.

We are faced with a similar situation today, but now the golden idol is called science. Let us consider how we Christians have prostrated ourselves to this idol, perhaps unwittingly.

I think most of my Christian readers will agree that God’s Word in the Bible is true. If we are evangelicals, Sola Scriptura is a motto from the Reformation with which we are familiar. We believe that the scriptures are infallibly accurate and true as found in the original autographs and are authoritative regarding faith and practice. Jesus taught that God’s Word cannot be broken. (John 10:35)

What the Bible says should not be contradicted or changed. It stands against all competitors claiming to be the truth. 

Jesus condemned the Pharisees for altering the Word of God to suit their purposes.

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. Mark 7:9 (NASB95)

Altering the clear meaning of God’s Word to make it compatible with an external version of truth is a favorite trick of religious people who do not take God’s words seriously. Here Jesus made it plain that changing the meaning of a text is the equivalent of invalidating or rejecting it. 

Whenever we reinterpret God’s Word to make it conform to a tradition or some other standard of truth, even if it is “scientific,” we are in error.

We now call the time when the Old and New Testaments were written as pre-scientific. Science emerged as a false god in the Renaissance when man determined that he is the measure of all things, not God and certainly not the Bible.

Highly esteemed scientists embarked on the scintillating quest of discovering the truths of the universe without being limited by what the Bible says.

This may have seemed like a new idea, but it is as old as humanity. This quest is the same one that Adam and Eve set out on in the garden. They likewise did not want to rely on God for information. They wanted to figure out things for themselves. This desire to gain knowledge without God’s help is rooted in pride and extremely appealing to us. It is the lure of Satan that has taken down multitudes and still deceives the nations, even those who proclaim allegiance to Jesus.

Any time we choose to dismiss the obvious meaning of Scripture in order to accommodate it to the claims of science, we have bowed the knee to a false god.

Here is a relevant example. Genesis Chapter One gives us God’s explanation of how he created the heavens and earth. In this section of the Bible we are told the sequence of creation and how long it took. The authors of the Bible believed this to be literally true, and God’s people thought the same for millennia. But when Renaissance scientists proclaimed that the Bible is not true after all, a gradual transition began to occur. Heliocentrism met with strong resistance at first from such notables as Luther and Calvin, but over time, as these defenders of orthodoxy died out and as the new theories were taught to the young, this new way of viewing the universe ascended to being considered true, not just a theory. This put the church into a crisis of faith.

Would God’s people hold to the traditional and obvious meaning of Genesis Chapter One, or would we reinterpret those verses to accommodate to a new standard of truth called science. I think you know the answer.

For the last five hundred years or so the Word of God regarding the creation and shape of the earth and heavens has been held captive by the false god of science. In a cunning stroke of evil genius, Satan attacked the foundation of truth, the Scriptures, by undermining our faith in the very first chapter.

It is no wonder that so many have chosen to reject God altogether because he cannot be found in the Big Bang universe. Only the true version of things gives glory to God.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

Today God is peeling back layers of deception and restoring people’s confidence that Genesis Chapter One is literally true and accurate.

Today people are standing up to the monolithic giant in the land called science, just as Elijah stood against the prophets of Baal.

It takes courage to make a stand for God’s truth just as it did for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. May God make us bold to proclaim our loyalty both to Jesus and his words, which includes Genesis Chapter One!

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26 (NASB95)

The World’s Most Prolific Idol?

What is the world’s most prolific idol? The answer may surprise you. The Bible warns us not to make an image of anything in the heavens or on earth.

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 “You shall not worship them or serve them... Exodus 20:4–5a (NASB95)

Today photographs abound, but these probably do not fit the definition of an idol, even though they are images. Idols inspire worship, which includes service to these images and what they represent. I therefore extend the definition to include any image that leads us astray from God and his truth found in the Bible. (Matthew 24:24, Deuteronomy 13:5) Jesus is truth personified (John 14:6). His Word, the Bible, is completely true. Therefore, any image that contradicts God’s Word is an idol.

When we believe and serve a false image about God and his creation, it is a form of idolatry.

What then exists today in great numbers that flatly contradicts scripture and detracts from God’s glory regarding creation? The globe fits that definition perfectly.

The globe earth, which is integral to the Copernican – Newtonian model of the universe, is an outright lie that is designed by Satan to cast doubt upon all of the Bible and lead people to conclude that there is no God at all.

The best place to undermine all of Scripture is in the first chapter of Genesis.

I have written in detail elsewhere about what globe loversome call heliosorcery, an occult form of sun worship which portrays the earth being in abject slavery to Helios (Satan), along with other so-called planets (wanderers) named after pagan gods. This system depends upon an unproven force that supposedly attracts all objects to each other called gravity, which is said to hold the universe together, thereby replacing God’s Son as the One who does that. (Colossians 1:17) 

Little children are taught that the globe idol represents reality, which outright contradicts Genesis Chapter One.

Those who grow up believing this model of the universe find themselves as adults unable to accept the simple teaching of Genesis about creation.

solar systemInstead we mangle the scriptures (called eisegesis) to try to make them coexist with our false cosmological model that includes our beloved spinning water ball careening through an infinite and scary “universe” going to who knows where at breakneck speed in multiple directions at once.

Rather than accept that we live on an stationary, stable earth that is the center of God’s creation, something our senses tell us is true, we choose to believe in the incredible Big Bang ever-expanding universe, in which the globe earth is a fragile and insignificant dot. Sadly, many sincere Christians insist that the Copernican model of the universe glorifies God. But how can anything that contradicts his Word of truth glorify him? It is impossible and pure self-deception.

Humanity persists in the unattainable quest of leaving the earth on a journey into outer darkness, not believing that God created an impenetrable barrier called the firmament on the second day of creation in which he placed the heavenly lights and above which is God’s throne. Those in Babel failed to break into heaven, and neither will we. Satan has once again fooled us into joining his attempt to dethrone God.

I realize that, if you are not familiar with the claims I am making in this article, all this will seem quite fantastical and downright idiotic.

But have you considered that to believe in the globe is to disbelieve Genesis?

I have found that often people are unwilling to even consider that Genesis is literally true because we have been so brainwashed to think that such a belief is backwards, pre-scientific, and a conspiracy theory, and no one wants that label!

But denying the truth of Genesis is to call God a liar, a scary proposition.

I would rather say that almost everyone in the world is lying or deceived into believing a lie.

May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED.” Romans 3:4 (NASB95)

Jesus said that the scriptures cannot be broken. (John 10:35) This means that the author of scripture says that every single word of the Bible is completely true and reliable.

Are we willing to contradict Jesus just to please those who serve the false religion of scientism? Is our motto “sola scriptura” or “sola sciencia?”

However, once a person sees the truth of Genesis Chapter One, the Bible comes alive in a new way. We discover that God’s Word is true even about cosmology! Once we know the truth, wouldn’t it be a sin to keep quiet about it? Shouldn’t we be willing to endure the scorn of the world to be loyal to Jesus and his Word? (Luke 9:26) God’s word is true. The globe is a lying idol. It is time for it to be smashed and the high place of heliocentrism torn down!

And now you have heard the truth. You no longer can claim ignorance. What are you going to do about it?

Science Fiction

Theoretical sciences deal with subject matter that is either too old (evolution) or too far away (astrophysics) to be able to do much in the way of practical, repeatable experiments. By necessity, these areas of study will never offer us much more than theories. This is acceptable unless conjecture is taught as fact, as has become the case. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who seems to be more of a comedian than a scientist, once said: “The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.”

Such a move from theory to fact requires the acceptance of unprovable presuppositions by faith. Modern astrophysics has become more of a religion than true science.

When Copernicus and others proposed the revolutionary (pun intended) heliocentric theory to explain what can be observed in the heavens, it was simply another possibility. It was partly based on reason and partly based on mysticism. This man and others, such as Sir Isaac Newton, were heavily influenced by the Egyptian sun worshiper, Hermes Trismegistus. They also believed that circles were perfect geometric figures, much to be preferred over the patterns of “planetary” motion they observed. Copernicus believed that the sun should be the center of the universe, holding sway over its subjects, including earth. (I have written about the occult side of heliocentrism in another article.) This new way of viewing the heavens soon took root and influenced everything that followed. Today heliocentrism is considered to be “gospel” truth, not to be disputed by any sane person, but it is still merely a theory.

Some astrophysicists are honest enough to admit this, such as George Ellis, who wrote in 1995.

People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations, For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.    —Cosmologist George Ellis, in Scientific American, “Thinking Globally, Acting Universally”, October 1995

Another less honest astrophysicist, none other than Edwin Hubble, wrote the following after discovering that cosmic background radiation indicates that the earth is the center of the universe.

…Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central Earth…This hypothesis cannot be disproved, but it is unwelcome and would only be accepted as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. Therefore we disregard this possibility…. the unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs…. such a favored position is intolerable…Therefore, in order to restore homogeneity, and to escape the horror of a unique position…must be compensated by spatial curvature. There seems to be no other escape.” (The Observational Approach to Cosmology)

Ellis and Hubble teach us that certain things in astrophysics must be accepted by faith, making it a religion. Max Planck agreed.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’ —Max Planck

Modern astrophysics assumes by faith that there is no Creator. Therefore, the universe must be explained using only mechanistic principles. The Bible is not taken seriously. These false assumptions have unavoidably produced false conclusions.

Modern astrophysics is not science. It is science fiction.

The only way to find our way back to the truth is to return to square one: God exists and created everything, just as the Bible, God’s inspired Word, tells us. What the Bible teaches is the truth. 

Our model of the cosmos must agree with the Bible’s teachings, or it is false. We are faced with the choice to believe what God says or in science fiction.

It takes great courage to contest the accepted paradigm. Many have refused to do so.

I have already known a long time that we do not yet have proof for the system of Copernicus, but I shall not take the risk to be the first one attacking it  —Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Quoted in F.K. Schultze’s synopsis and translation of F.E. Pasche’s “Christliche Weltanschauuing

Will we stand up for God’s truth or bow the knee to science fiction?

Man’s Ongoing Quest to Escape Our Assigned Habitation, the Earth

The heaven of the heavens is the Lord’s. But he gave the earth to the sons of [men]. Psalm 115:16 (LES2- Septuagint)

Since Adam and Eve rebelled against God and the one limitation he imposed on them; we humans have made it our quest to go beyond all divine prohibitions, which includes trying to escape our assigned habitation of the earth to go into the heaven of heavens, which belongs to God.

In the seventh chapter of his letter to the church in Rome, Paul taught that because of the inclination to sin we inherited from Adam, whenever God says we cannot do something or have something, we instinctively want that thing. The inclination is there at birth, but we only see it clearly when the Law sets boundaries. (Romans 7:13-14)

The boundary between what is ours and what is not is the firmament, the “curtain” that sets God’s holy habitation of heaven apart from our earthly tabernacle.

Satan tried to go beyond his God-given place and role and take that which does not belong to him.

But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 14 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14:13–14 (NASB95)

Now Satan enlists humans, the crown of God’s creation, into his evil army and quest to dethrone God.

The origin of sin lies in our refusal to accept and honor God’s authority over us as our Creator. We see this being played out all around us in our culture. People are not happy with their assigned sexuality or gender. Couples do not want to be limited or “tied down” by a marriage contract. Some women despise the perceived limitations of being wives and mothers. Some men do not want to carry the weight of responsibility connected with the roles of husband and father. Many people have rejected the idea that there is a God who has a right to limit our freedom, judge our evil deeds, or require anything from us. This is the height of arrogance and deception, which the apostle Paul described.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Romans 1:28 (NASB95)

Individuals and societies plunge into foolishness, degradation, and ruin when God is not acknowledged, honored, and properly feared.

Contrary to Satan’s lie, God gave us tremendous freedom, but we have despised it, wanting complete self-rule without any negative consequences. Satan’s motto is, “Do what thou wilt.”

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together [a worldwide conspiracy], Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Psalm 2:1–4 (NKJV)

Apparently Satan had a highly privileged status prior to his rebellion, but he wanted more. Although he is a created being, he considered himself to be God’s equal and had the audacity to attempt to overthrow the Creator’s rule. The result was his utter defeat and ouster from heaven.

And He [Jesus] said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Luke 10:18 (NKJV)

Having failed in his first attempt, Satan did not give up. Apparently, somewhere along the way he decided to seduce the humans God created to join his rebellion against God. It seems that the lure of god-like self-determination is quite overpowering to God’s creatures.

God created us to be perfectly fulfilled and happy within the “constraints” of a dependent relationship with him.

We were not designed, equipped, or intended to go it alone. Our Lord’s desire has always been to be with us and live his life in and through us, which is the only pathway to peace and joy. Sadly Adam and Eve threw all that away in pursuit of an empty promise from the devil that they could be like God, knowing good and evil for themselves. Jesus came to earth to restore us to God’s original intention.

In the New Covenant, God’s Holy Spirit indwells each believer and the church as a whole, elevating us to participate in God’s own life.

Jesus said:

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. John 10:10 (NLT)

Not only did God intend for Adam and Eve and their descendants to enjoy a happy and fulfilled life, he also provided them and us with a perfect environment. The earth God created was a paradise with more than enough capacity to provide for a vast number of people. Before they rebelled against God’s rule, the earth worked with them to provide all their needs. After their sin and consequent judgment, the earth was negatively impacted, too, and now works against us to some degree.

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. 18 “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:17–19 (NASB95)

Now it is more difficult to extract blessings from the ground, but not impossible. God’s original command to be fruitful and multiply still stands. God continues to want the earth to be full of people, something the devil works hard to prevent. 

Satan, the father of lies, deceives us into accepting his version of reality in place of God’s truth. He wants us to think that God does not love us and the earth on which we live is fragile and unable to support us.

The earth God created is huge with plentiful resources. The Bible says that it is safely enclosed and protected within a solid firmament. This crystalline-like structure protects us from external threats, except for the satanic realm, to which Adam opened the door.

The firmament also separates us from the third heaven where God’s throne is located. 

God reserved heaven for himself, his angels, and all who put their faith and allegiance in his Son, our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Our assigned abode for now is on the earth below the firmament. The Lord wants us to be satisfied with what he has provided for us. He wants us to extract from it all the blessings he put here instead of trying illegitimately to obtain more.

The first human attempt to breech God’s domain took place at Babe. The Bible records that residents of Mesopotamia constructed a giant tower whose purpose was to reach into heaven.

They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 (NASB95)

According to Jewish tradition, Nimrod wanted to penetrate the barrier of the firmament in order to kill God with his bow and arrows.

The account of Nimrod attempting to storm Heaven to kill God is not found in the canonical Bible. Instead, it originates in Jewish extra-biblical traditions, most notably the Midrash, Sefer HaYashar (The Book of Jasher), and the Babylonian Talmud. In these texts, Nimrod is portrayed as the primary architect of the Tower of Babel. According to Sefer HaYashar (Chapter 9), the builders of the tower—led by Nimrod—declared: “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and in it a strong tower, and its top reaching heaven, and we will make for ourselves a name, so that we may reign upon the whole world, in order that the evil of our enemies may cease from before us, that we may reign mightily and build for ourselves a tower of great strength, in order that we may fight against heaven and ascend to heaven and smite Him with bows and spears.” The Midrash Rabbah (Genesis Rabbah 38:6) also records that the builders of the tower said, “He [God] has no right to choose the upper world for Himself and leave the lower world for us. Therefore, we will build a tower, with an idol on top holding a sword, so that it may appear as if it is effectively waging war against God.”

This quest to breach the firmament was delayed but not stopped when God confused the builders’ languages and scattered them across the earth.

It seems that NASA has taken Nimrod’s place. This organization has assumed several nefarious purposes, one of which appears to be to test the strength and nature of the firmament and perhaps punch through it.  

The Bible tells us that the solid firmament rises from the earth where it is securely anchored. I cover this in greater detail in another article entitled, “Introduction to the Firmament.”  in this series. A 1958 version of The Encyclopedia Americana reported the presence of a dome. This was prior to the Antarctic Treaty and before censorship was established regarding that area of the world. The Bible teaches that we are “fenced in” (limited) by this structure. At this point, the general public does not know where the firmament connects to the earth, since that area of the world is now “off limits,” but possibly Admiral Richard E. Byrd found it, having made several expeditions to that region before and after WWII (1928-30, 1933-34, 1939-40, 1946-47, and 1955-56). 

During and after Byrd completed his assignments there, several very interesting things took place.

  1. The United Nations was created in 1945.
  2. Walt Disney, who majored in fantasy, and Werner Von Braun of later NASA fame partnered to produce a documentaryantarctica events on outer space travel in 1955.
  3. NASA was formed in 1958. Werner Von Braun, a former Nazi, brought to the US under the auspices of Operation Paperclip, became a main spokesman for our space program.
  4. The Antarctic Treaty was signed, cordoning off the area beyond the South 60th parallel, December 1, 1959. The signing nations were each assigned a segment to guard and protect against independent exploration. Interestingly, despite all our international conflicts since then, no one has violated this treaty. Why is it alone so valued? Another interesting fact is that each nation guards a section that corresponds to their proximity to the ice wall on the flat earth.
  5. Operation Fishbowl was part of a series of high altitude nuclear explosions conducted by the US and Russia. Operation Starfish supposedly exploded a 1.4 megaton bomb in 1962 at a reported altitude of 400 kilometers or 240 miles. One has to ask why?

questIf the firmament exists, as the Bible says, outer space is a fantasy. We believe that the firmament cannot be penetrated, and that most everything NASA produces is part of a Disney-like production – cartoons for adults. Many believe that NASA primarily exists to maintain the illusion that we live on a globe while making ongoing efforts to break through the firmament. It also provides a way to launder about $70 million dollars per day.

Whatever is the actual case, no one will deny that a tremendous amount of people are genuinely obsessed with outer space and interplanetary travel. The  idea of leaving the earth and exploring, and maybe even establishing colonies, beyond our assigned habitation of the earth has gripped the imaginations of millions. The popularity of movies devoted to space travel proves my point. 

If the Bible is correct about the existence of a solid dome-like firmament, then the science fiction of outer space is tantamount to idolatry. It means that Satan has deceived us into joining him in the quest of trying to punch through the firmament into God’s private domain, which is an act of war against the Lord. 

The “outer space” of heliocentric cosmology most likely corresponds to the Bible’s “outer darkness,” the abode of fallen angels, demons, and unrepentant humans who reject the gospel. Satan has fooled us into thinking that a journey into such darkness is to be highly desired.

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; Jude 6 (NKJV) 

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ Matthew 22:13 (NKJV)

Hollywood, which often hides the truth in plain sight, has given us many clues regarding the firmament and humanity’s inborn desire to escape our assigned habitation. Here are a few examples.

The Houston Airport is another example of hiding the truth in plain site. A flat-earth map has been placed under a dome. The powers that be love dangling the truth under our noses and laugh at our lack of discernment.

The Matrix movie describes a world where humans are enslaved by convincing them that the lie, with which they are all brainwashed, is reality. In order to break free from the lie, Neo was encouraged to take the “red pill” that would open his eyes to the truth and launch him on a dangerous pursuit of freedom.

Sinful rebellious humankind wants to escape the limitations of our God-imposed habitation. Satan and those working with and for him hide the true nature of our world from its inhabitants in order to enslave us under false pretenses. They tell us that the world in which we live is more or less doomed and that we need to find somewhere else for a habitation. All the while they hide from us how amazing and plentiful is God’s provision. Almost everything about our world as presented by our government is contrary to the truth.

Consider the following. We are told…

  • We live on a “fragile” planet. 
  • We are in danger from climate change, asteroids, disease, aliens, and over crowding.
  • Resources are limited and running out.
  • World population needs to be reduced, resources rationed, and energy conserved.

But what does God say?

  • We live on a firmly secured earth enclosed by a solid firmament.
  • Climate change, aliens, and asteroids are not real. Demons and fallen angels, yes, but not space aliens.
  • God created the earth with more than enough resources to support a massive population. Otherwise, God would not have commanded us to fill the earth.
  • God said to be fruitful and multiply. Efforts to reduce the population through wars, starvation, abortion, vaccines, etc., like everything else Satan suggests and tries, are in direct violation of God’s commands.

If we would accept that the earth that God created is a perfectly designed habitation and seek to bring it more and more in line with our Lord’s original intention under his rule, we would see our lives prosper in a greater way.

Instead, inspired by Satan and our own rebelliousness, we refuse to tell the truth, listen to the truth, or accept our God-imposed limitations. Instead, we try to escape, not realizing that all the while Satan is working his plan to subjugate and destroy the inhabitants of the earth. Thankfully, we know from the Bible that God wins! Eventually the truth will be known. God will create a new heaven and earth in which only righteousness exists. Even now the Bible says that believers in Jesus are spiritually seated with him in heaven.

For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:6 (NLT)

In his marvelous generosity, God has given to us everything we and Satan tried to take illegitimately. What a God we serve! 

It’s Time for Us to Escape This Tottering House of Cards

The “Over Mountain Men” won a decisive battle at Kings Mountain, NC during some of the darkest days of the American fight for independence from England. These intrepid fighters, having been threatened by one of General Cornwallis’ subordinates, decided to hunt him down and destroy him. Ferguson had promised to hang their leaders and burn their settlements, if they did not swing their support to the Crown. Ferguson did not understand these people who had already defied the King by settling in the mountains of what is now Eastern Tennessee, an area designated as Indian territory. These hardy pioneers, who had hewed out a rough existence from the wilderness, were unwilling to be told what to do by a faraway king from another land. They were used to battling Indians and the environment and were ready to die, if necessary, to preserve their freedom from England. Our nation continues to recognize and celebrate their fierce independence and fighting spirit which significantly influenced the outcome of the Revolution.

It is one thing to throw off what might be considered the oppressive rule of a distant tyrant, but it is another matter altogether when such fierce independence manifests itself in opposition to God. 

Since the Garden of Eden, humans in general have been in a prolonged war to throw off God’s rule and the limitations imposed by his Word, the Bible.

This, however, is a war we cannot possibly win. All those engaged in it have been deluded into fighting against the omnipotent ruler of the heavens and earth. King David wrote the following in Psalm Two.

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed [Jesus], saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Psalm 2:1–4 (NKJV)

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s direct command in the garden, they demonstrated that they were unwilling to be limited by what God told them. They chose to transgress or “go beyond” his command not to eat the forbidden fruit. This rebellious desire to go beyond the boundaries set for us has been passed down spiritually to every human being. Our most fundamental sin, therefore, is our refusal to acknowledge God’s right to rule over us. This is why it is essential that we confess that Jesus is Lord, if we want to be rescued from the bondage and death that resulted from our rebellion.  (Romans 10:9-10)

The choice willingly to come back under God’s rule is the key action we must take to be restored to favor with God. Christ’s lordship is the focus. Acknowledge it and live. Defy it and be destroyed.

If we willingly bow the knee to Jesus, our sins are forgiven, we are restored to a proper relationship with God, and become one with the Holy Spirit, who is the fountain of eternal life. God begins to live his life through us, transforming us from the inside out to be more and more like him. We are promised that one day Jesus will raise our mortal bodies from the dead, after which we will share in his glory and rule for all eternity! Hallelujah!

However, there is another group of people who will not bow the knee to the Lord Jesus and insists that he has no right or say in their lives. They fiercely resist his rule and refuse to be limited or governed by his Word, the Bible.

But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’ Luke 19:14 (NLT)

The Bible says that these people make up the world system. They hate Jesus and his Word (the Bible) as much or more than the Over Mountain Men hated the King of England and his laws. This refusal to be limited by what God has revealed and commanded in the Bible manifests itself in many ways. It shows up very clearly in theoretical astrophysics. If we reject God’s description of the heavens and earth found in the Bible and his explanation of origins, we must come up with an alternate theory, one that, by default, is in error.

Whatever begins with false assumptions, will always lead to deep deception.

God’s Word is always true (John 17:17); therefore, we become opponents of truth in any area in which we resist the final authority of God’s Word.

It disturbs me that so many who acknowledge that Jesus rose from the dead still have reservations about accepting the authority of his Word regarding the origin and nature of the earth and heavens. If in any area we put more faith in the proclamations of men than in God’s Word, such as cosmology, we ally ourselves with the world system ruled by Satan, whose subjects prefer lies over truth, Satan over God, darkness over light, and death over life. (John 3:19-20)

Jesus addressed the religious leaders of Israel, who thought they were spiritually minded, but were actually under Satan’s rule. He told them that they were unable and unwilling to hear and believe the truth he spoke because they were children of the devil. (John 8:43-45) Those who have not been reborn by the Holy Spirit instinctively hate the truth and spurn God’s Word. Those in the  world system highly esteem what God hates and hate what God loves. (Luke 16:15)

Whatever the world praises is most likely something that opposes God’s rule and defies the words of the Bible.

About a year ago I became convinced that the heliocentric model, which includes the spherical earth, is a lie that opposes the clear teaching of Genesis Chapter One. Holding this position puts me at odds with what most people believe is the truth about the cosmos, which, I contend, is a house of cards, built on a most shaky foundation of lies that leads to great deception.

When we begin with an assumption that contradicts the Bible, we cannot help becoming entangled in a web of deception.

Satan does not deceive us just for fun. He is not a mischievous prankster. His end game is to destroy us.

The highly esteemed heliocentric model, which opposes God’s Word in almost every way, is detestable in the eyes of God but idolized by mankind.

Those of us who have placed our faith in the Lord Jesus are faced with a choice: shall we embrace the Bible and turn our backs on the heliocentric lie, which will require us to endure the scorn of men, or shall we take the easy way out and go along with the lie?

house of cards 2The foundation of theoretical astrophysics is slowly eroding as more and more people are waking up to the truth about the earth’s design. The deceptions connected to the space program are unraveling before our eyes.  The king has no clothes! Eventually the lies supporting this massive deception will be exposed. The house of cards built on the heliocentric lie is under God’s judgment. It is in danger of imminent collapse. Tension escalates as to the fate of those who are still inside. Will they get out before the whole thing comes crashing down?

For a long time now, it seems that God has “winked” at the deception surrounding globe earth, but that time is coming to an end.

I believe a time is approaching when having the right cosmology will save us from falling for Satan’s next big lie. Let’s put our faith in what agrees with the Bible. Let’s be steadfast and immovable in our allegiance to God and his Word. If we show allegiance to Jesus and his Word, we will have nothing of which to be ashamed.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26 (NKJV)

Lords of the Universe

God gave man dominion over the earth and reserved heaven for himself.

The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. Psalm 115:16 (NASB95)

When God created the earth, he separated the third heaven from the earth below by creating the solid dome called the firmament. (Genesis 1:7) God sits on his throne atop this structure observing all who dwell on the earth below. (Isaiah 40:22)

Under the influence of Satan, who desires to unseat God from his throne (Isaiah 14:13-14), deluded and rebellious people want to be lords of the heavens, too. The first manifestation of this was the tower of Babel, which was built in hopes of reaching into the heavens, thus making a name for mankind, apart from anything granted to him by God. (Genesis 11) Such unlawful grasping after glory is the exact opposite of the attitude of our Lord Jesus, who humbled himself to become a man to reconcile us to the Creator.

Paul wrote:

who [Jesus], although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:6–11 (NASB95)

As a result of his self-effacing humility and complete submission to God’s will, Jesus has been elevated to the grandest position of all. He sits enthroned with God in heaven as Lord over everything in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. As astounding as this is, there is something perhaps even more wondrous that God has done in Christ.

All who put their faith and allegiance in Jesus the Lord are elevated with him to God’s throne.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4–7 (NASB95)

That which Satan sought illegitimately has been granted to all who receive forgiveness and reconciliation in Christ. The gospel offers this supreme honor to all who will receive it, but mankind’s rebellion knows no bounds.

Those who refuse to bow the knee in submission to our Lord still seek to take the heavens illegitimately. We want to be lords of the universe without any help from God.

lordsAlthough doing such a thing is quite impossible, we imagine we can do it. We dream about it. We fantasize for ourselves a fictional “universe” that we can explore using space ships. We use our amazing technologies of deception to implant the dream of space exploration in the hearts of the young and old alike.

The fictional Copernican – Newtonian universe, complete with its globe earth, has no solid barrier between heaven and earth. In fact, the heaven of the Bible does not even exist, and God is nowhere to be found in this imaginary universe of ours. The only thing impeding us now is the technology to go through something called the Van Allen radiation belts which threaten to kill anyone making the attempt. Oddly, somehow our moon men managed to traverse these belts unscathed long ago, but we apparently lost or destroyed that advanced 1960’s technology and cannot seem to recreate it. (For more information on the amazing technology of that era, I suggest watching Wagging the Moon Doggie video series.) We love movies like the moon landings, ISS videos, Star Trek, and Star Wars, which fuel the fiction that we were destined to roam the heavens at will, going where no man has ever gone before (nor ever will outside of Christ).

As a result of massive deception, fueled by NASA, other space agencies, and the entertainment industry, people love the idea of space exploration and are loathe to be separated from our  rebellious quest to be lords of the universe.

Even many Christians, who ought to know better because of our knowledge of the Bible, have been caught up in this delusional quest. Instead of being content with having dominion over what God has given to us, the earth, we want more and on our own terms. May the Lord open our eyes to see that the heavens belong to God and to those who pledge allegiance to Christ as Lord. There is only one way for us to breach the firmament. His name is Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. For all those who refuse the gospel, heaven is strictly off limits.

Devotion to the Globe Is a Form of Self-Worship

When I first began to share what I have come to believe about the shape and nature of the earth on which we live, I was surprised by the level of animosity and resistance I encountered, even from family, friends, and people who say they believe the Bible. Clearly something beyond intellectual disagreement was at the root of this hatred of all things related to biblical cosmology. It did not matter if I appealed to the Bible for support. Then it dawned on me.

The ubiquitous globe is actually an idol.

It sits in almost every home and classroom. It makes regular appearances in movies, television, and other forms of media. The non-biblical words “globe” and “planet” are used in preference to the biblical word, “earth.” We have completely swallowed the globe lie, “hook, line, and sinker.” We absolutely love our globe! It has become an idol.

The globe idol represents a self-worship of our own intelligence, as opposed to reliance upon God. It stands for our rebellion against the truth of the Bible, and it illustrates our determination to go beyond the confines of the region God assigned to us, called the earth.

globe loverOur love for “outer space” is actually a form of rebellion against God in two ways. First of all, it does not even exist. Everything beyond the dome of the firmament is an unknown region, perhaps what the Bible calls the “third heaven,” where God’s throne is located, or perhaps it is the region Jesus called “outer darkness,” a place of judgment, sorrow, and regret. When we devote so much time, effort, focus, and money on an imaginary place, created by our own minds in opposition to what the Bible teaches, it is an escape from reality rooted in rebellion against the truth and God himself.

Secondly, our love for outer space represents our sinful determination to go beyond what God has assigned to us. As I wrote in a previous article, the “grass always looks greener” on the other side of the firmament. We seem determined to discover “truth” for ourselves, rather than rely on what God has revealed in his Word. This goes all the way back to the Garden. Modern evolutionary astrophysics is nothing short of a complete rebellion against God’s Word. The quest to explore “outer space” links us to Satan’s longing to oust God from heaven, one that goes all the way back to the tower of Babel.

Idolatry is the only explanation of why people so ferociously oppose anyone who dares challenge the globe and modern ideas related to astrophysics.

People always hate anyone who threatens their idols. (Judges 6:30) People will fight “tooth and nail” to hold on to their fantasies. Otherwise, one would expect to encounter more intellectual curiosity. One would hope that Christians would seriously consider if their way of looking at the cosmos agrees with what the Bible says. But that is not usually the case. Most of the time one encounters hostility against any attempt to tear down the high place of heliocentrism.

My love for God and biblical truth is what motivates me to remain committed to exposing the satanic deception behind the idolatry of globe earth and modern astrophysics. Is this issue really so important? Yes, it is. May the Lord open our eyes to understand and accept what the Bible says about the heavens and earth. Let us repent of self-worship. May God cause his church to once again esteem what the Bible says above the words, dictates, and opinions of men. Amen.

Heliocentrism Fails Logical Test

Astronomy and astrophysics tends to be extremely complicated when it comes to mathematical calculations and physics. This is because we are dealing with so many unknowns and all we know is derived from what we can observe in the heavens from this place called earth. Another reason for the complexity is to obfuscate matters deliberately so that the average person feels as if he or she is not adequate to even think about such things. It is better to leave it to the experts and simply accept their proclamations as the truth. This devilish strategy has worked amazingly well.

God gave us minds and senses through which we can observe and know the world around us. It is only reasonable to conclude that God, if we first accept that he created all this, wants us to trust in the senses and mind he gave us.

But even more importantly, God wants us to trust what he says more than anything or anyone else, even our own mind and senses. That is one of the most important lessons of Genesis. Adam and Eve failed that test, but you and I have an opportunity to pass it.

The Bible makes it clear that God’s Word is always true. Most of the Christians I know, agree with this principle in theory, but when it comes to practice sometimes we betray that we do not always think so. We have come up with ingenious ways to avoid the plain truth of the Bible. Jesus addressed this sinful tendency, when he said:

Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’ 8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.” 9 Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition. Mark 7:6–9 (NLT)

Jesus warned us that the words of God cannot be “broken,” (John 10:35) meaning that they are inviolable and always true. Jesus should know, since his name is the Word of God, the eternal Logos. (John 1:1 and 1:14) He warned the Jewish leaders on another occasion that they were in error because they did “not understand the Scriptures or the power of God.” (Mark 12:24) We learn from these verses of scripture that we fall into error when we fail to understand and believe what God says in the Bible or when we discount God’s words because we fail to grasp the enormity of his power to accomplish whatever he wishes.

We err when we, for whatever reason, determine that God’s words are not really true after all.

Heliocentrism was advanced most famously by Nicolai Copernicus, who used his powers of reason and deduction to formulate a theory that contradicted what the Bible says and what was generally believed for millennia. He deduced that the sun was the center of the “solar system,” and the earth revolved around it. By what has become known as the Copernican Principle, mankind is now regarded as having minuscule importance in the vastness of a very impersonal and dangerous “universe.”

Genesis Chapter One stands in complete contradiction to heliocentrism.

It declares that the earth the center of things with the sun and moon running a circuit or course over it. The stars are fixed in the dome of the firmament. Man is the focal point of God’s creation and God observes and rules from on high. (Isaiah 40:22) The order of creation in Genesis also makes it impossible for a heliocentric system to have ever come into being. This is why the evolutionary Big Bang theory had to be developed to explain how all we see came to be. It must be either creation or evolution, it seems.

Here is the logical failure of the heliocentric system for all who say they believe God’s Word if true.

  1. God’s Word is always true.
  2. The heliocentric system opposes God’s Word.
  3. Therefore, heliocentrism is a lie.

If heliocentrism is accepted as true, then the following must also be true.

  1. Heliocentrism is true.
  2. Heliocentrism opposes God’s Word.
  3. Therefore, God’s Word is a lie.

Which syllogism do you support? Will we pass the test Adam failed?

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