“The heliocentric theory, by putting the sun at the center of the universe ... made man appear to be just one of a possible host of wanderers drifting through a cold sky. It seemed less likely that he was born to live gloriously and to attain paradise upon his death. Less likely, too, was it that he was the object of God’s ministrations." -Morris Kline
The Bible describes a Geocentric Universe within which Earth is the only material world and around which everything in the cosmos revolves. The Earth is described as a flat, plane resting upon the “mighty waters of the great deep.” The Sun and Moon were created as luminaries to divide and light the day and night. Stars were created as lesser luminaries, and all the celestial lights were created for the Earth and to revolve around the Earth. Humans, animals and everything in nature was intentionally and intelligently created in a matter of days, not coldly, blindly “evolved” over billions of years.
“The Genesis creation story provides the first key to the Hebrew cosmology. The order of creation makes no sense from a conventional perspective but is perfectly logical from a flat-earth viewpoint. The earth was created on the first day, and it was ‘without form and void (Genesis 1:2).’ On the second day, a vault the ‘firmament’ of the King James version was created to divide the waters, some being above and some below the vault. Only on the fourth day were the sun, moon, and stars created, and they were placed ‘in’ (not ‘above’) the vault.” -Robert Schadewald, “The Flat Earth Bible” (2)
Contrary to NASA and the modern Masonic astronomical establishment, the Bible affirms and re-affirms in several passages that the Earth is stationary and absolutely motionless. 1 Chronicles 16:30 and Psalm 96:10 both read, “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.” Isaiah 45:18 states, “God who made the earth and fashioned it, himself fixed it fast.” And Psalm 93:1 says, “The world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.”
Also contrary to NASA and other propagators of the ball-Earth theory, the Bible repeatedly affirms that the Earth is “outstretched” as a plane, with the outstretched heavens everywhere above (not all around), that it is firmly fixed on foundations or pillars, and has ends and corners jutting out into the sea. Exodus 20:1-4 declares that the heavens are above the Earth (not all around it) and that the waters of the mighty deep are under the Earth. In Luke 4:5 Satan takes Jesus to a mountain high enough to see “all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,” and Revelation 1:7 promises every eye shall see Christ’s coming in the clouds, feats only possible over a flat-Earth, not a globe.
“The essential flatness of the earth’s surface is required by verses like Daniel 4:10-11. In Daniel, the king ‘saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth’s farthest bounds.’ If the earth were flat, a sufficiently tall tree would be visible to ‘the earth’s farthest bounds,’ but this is impossible on a spherical earth. Likewise, in describing the temptation of Jesus by Satan, Matthew 4:8 says, ‘Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.’ Obviously, this would be possible only if the earth were flat. The same is true of Revelation 1:7: ‘Behold, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye shall see him.’” -Robert Schadewald, “The Flat Earth Bible” (4)
In the Bible, “the waters” are created before the Earth and surround the Earth. Genesis 1:9-10 reads, “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. And God called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas.” Psalm 136:6 confirms that God, “stretched out the earth above the waters,” and Psalm 24:1-2 says, “He hath founded earth upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.” 2 Peter 3:5 describes, “the earth standing out of the water and in the water,” and Exodus 20:4 and Deuteronomy 4:18 both mention “the waters beneath the earth.”
“That the surface of water is horizontal is a matter of absolute truth, and as the earth is founded upon the seas, and stretched out above the waters, it is of necessity a plane; and being a concrete mass of variable elements and compounds, with different specific gravities, it must be a floating structure, standing in and out of the waters, just as we see a ship or an iceberg.” -Dr. Samuel Rowbotham, “Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe!” (364)
The Sun, Moon and stars were placed by God within the “firmament” or “the vault of heaven,” and move around and above the earth, so that day and night are “ruled” by their motions/lights, not by the supposed axial motion of the ball-Earth. They are luminaries only (not physical planetoids), intended for “signs and seasons,” to give light to this, the only world, and were purposely positioned relatively close to Earth, not millions of miles away as false astronomers say. Genesis 1:16-18 reads, “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.” Psalm 19:4-6 also affirms that it is the Sun which rotates over and around the Earth, and not the opposite as contended by the heliocentric establishment.
“Further, the Bible frequently presents celestial bodies as exotic living beings. For example, ‘In them [the heavens], a tent is fixed for the sun, who comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy, rejoicing like a strong man to run his race. His rising is at one end of the heavens, his circuit touches their farthest ends; and nothing is hidden from his heat (Psalm 19:4-6).’ The stars are anthropomorphic demigods. When the earth’s cornerstone was laid ‘the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted aloud (Job 38:7).’ The morning star is censured for trying to set his throne above that of other stars: You thought in your own mind, I will scale the heavens; I will set my throne high above the stars of God, I will sit on the mountain where the gods meet in the far recesses of the north. I will rise high above the cloud-banks and make myself like the most high (Isaiah 14:13-14). Deuteronomy 4:15-19 recognizes the god-like status of stars, noting that they were created for other peoples to worship. Stars can fall from the skies according to Daniel 8:10 and Matthew 24:29. The same idea is found in the following extracts from Revelation 6:13-16… the stars in the sky fell to the earth, like figs shaken down by a gale; the sky vanished, as a scroll is rolled up... they called out to the mountains and the crags, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One who sits on the throne.’ This is consistent with the Hebrew cosmology previously described, but it is ludicrous in the light of modern astronomy. If one star let alone all the stars in the sky ‘fell’ on the earth, no one would be hollering from any mountain or crag. The writer considered the stars small objects, all of which could fall to the earth without eradicating human life. He also viewed the sky as a physical object. The stars are inside the sky, and they fall before the sky opens. When it is whisked away, it reveals the One throned above (see Isaiah 40:22).” -Robert Schadewald, “The Flat Earth Bible” (5)