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Is the earth flat?
Isn’t it surprising, that in our modern era this remains a question? Anybody who has flown in an aircraft is able to see the curve of the horizon, supporting the curvature of the earth as a sphere. All photo’s from outer space illustrate that the Earth is like the sun and moon and if you look at the science of the eclipse of the sun or moon it has to be in a shape of a ball. When watching the horizon next to the see you will see the mast of a ship rising as the ship miles away comes into vision supporting the earth as a sphere. This is not strange as the Bible supported the earth as in the form of a ball: Isa. 40: 22 “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,…†Here we have support from the Bible of a circular shape that is supported by “having seen, now believed.â€