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    Is the center of the earth the end of all down?

    Philippians 2:10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    I believe a higher percentage of those who believe the earth is a globe took the covid inoculation, versus those who don't believe the earth is a globe.
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    very man in his senses goes the most reasonable way to work to do a thing. Now, astronomers (one after another—following a leader), while they are telling us that Earth is a globe, are cutting off the upper half of this supposititious globe in their books, and, in this way, forming the level...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    The best possessions of man are his senses; and, when he uses them all, he will not be deceived in his survey of nature. It is only when some one faculty or other is neglected or abused that he is deluded. Every man in full command of his senses knows that a level surface is a flat or horizontal...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    Human beings require a surface on which to live that, in its general character, shall be LEVEL; and since the Omniscient Creator must have been perfectly acquainted with the requirements of His creatures, it follows that, being an All-wise Creator, He has met them thoroughly. This is a...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    If the Earth were a globe, the distance round its surface at, say, 45 “degrees” south latitude, could not possibly be any greater than it is at the same latitude north; but, since it is found by navigators to be twice the distance—to say the least of it—or, double the distance it ought to be...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    The idea that, instead of sailing horizontally round the Earth, ships are taken down one side of a globe, then underneath, and are brought up on the other side to get home again, is, except as a mere dream, impossible and absurd! And, since there are neither impossibilities nor absurdities in...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    “Parallels of latitude” only—of all imaginary lines on the surface of the Earth—are circles, which increase, progressively, from the northern centre to the southern circumference. The mariner’s course in the direction of any one of these concentric circles is his longitude, the degrees of which...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    As the mariners’ compass points north and south at one and the same time, and a meridian is a north and south line, it follows that meridians can be no other than straight lines. But, since all meridians on a globe are semicircles, it is an incontrovertible proof that the Earth is not a globe.
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    As we have seen that there is, really, no south point (or pole) but an infinity of points forming, together, a vast circumference—the boundary of the known world, with its battlements of icebergs which bid defiance to man’s onward course in a southerly direction—so there can be no east or west...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    As the mariners’ compass points north and south at one time, and as the North, to which it is attracted, is that part of the Earth situate where the North Star is in the zenith, it follows that there is no south “point” or “pole” but that, while the centre is North, a vast circumference must be...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    That the mariners’ compass points north and south at the same time is a fact as indisputable as that two and two makes four; but that this would be impossible if the thing were placed on a globe with “north” and “south” at the centre of opposite hemispheres is a fact that does not figure in the...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    As mariners take to sea with them charts constructed as though the sea were a level surface, however these charts may err as to the true form of this level surface taken as a whole, it is clear, as they find them answer their purpose tolerably well—and only tolerably well, for many ships are...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    If the Earth were a globe, a small model globe would be the very best—because the truest—thing for the navigator to take to sea with him. But such a thing as that is not known: with such a toy as a guide, the mariner would wreck his ship, of a certainty! This is a proof that Earth is not a globe.
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    If we take a trip down the Chesapeake Bay, in the day-time, we may see for ourselves the utter fallacy of the idea that when a vessel appears “hull down,” as it is called, it is because the hull is “behind the water:” for, vessels have been seen, and may often be seen again, presenting the...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    If we stand on the sands of the sea-shore and watch a ship approach us, we shall find that she will apparently “rise”—to the extent of her own height, nothing more. If we stand upon an eminence, the same law operates still; and it is but the law of perspective, which causes objects, as they...
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    (Psalms 103:5) (Is The Earth is Not a Globe or is The Earth a Globe?)

    The lights which are exhibited in lighthouses are seen by navigators at distances at which, according to the scale of the supposed “curvature” given by astronomers, they ought to be many hundreds of feet, in some cases, down below the line of sight! For instance: the light at Cape Hatteras is...