QUESTION: IF THE EARTH WERE FLAT, WOULDN'T THE SUN BE VISIBLE TO EVERYONE IN EVERY COUNTRY AT THE SAME TIME?

Question: If the Earth were flat, wouldn't the sun be visible to everyone in every country at the same time?

By: WLC

Answer: No. The sun is much closer and much smaller than modern astronomy1 would have you believe. Because the sun is relatively small and very close to the Earth, it cannot be seen from all places at all times; nor can it light up the entire world at one time. Yahuwah's wisdom is unsearchable and His design is marvelous. "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth." (Isaiah 40:25-26, KJV)

"As it is now demonstrated that the Earth is a plane, the distance of the Sun and Stars may readily be measured by plane trigonometry. . . . This distance will be thus found to be considerably less than 4,000 miles. . . . The same method of measuring distances applies equally to the Stars; and it is easy to demonstrate, beyond the possibility of doubt, so long as assumed premises are excluded, that all the visible objects in the firmament are contained within the distance of 6,000 miles!" (Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe2, Section 3, "The True Distance of the Sun and Stars," Samuel Birley Rowbotham)

"One of the fables which our Astronomers seem to delight in telling us, is that the distance between the Earth and the Sun is so great, that it would take an express train, going at the rate of sixty miles per hour, one hundred and seventy-three years to reach it, at which wonderful news I doubt not that Dominie Sampson, could he hear it, would exclaim with special emphasis —Pro-di-gi-ous! What would be thought of a man who wanted to light his dining-room with a lamp 1,240,000 times larger than the room itself? Would not his friends think him only fit for a lunatic asylum? Yet such a preposterous act, with respect to the lighting of this world, if not attributed by some Astronomers to their own deity " Natural Law," is palmed upon the Jehovah of Hosts, who is " wonderful in counsel and excellent in working" -Isa. xxviii. 29. He doeth all things well, proportioning the means to the end which He has in view.

"It appears to me that Modem Astronomy, like Roman Catholicism, is an attempt to revive Pagan superstition. The former, for temples has observatories, and the latter for the Pantheon has the Vatican; for Baal the Astronomers have Newton, and for Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, the Roman Catholics have the Virgin Mary. . . . The Bible order of the heavens has been completely subverted by our Astronomers; instead of the Sun revolving round the world, the world is declared to revolve round it, as a mere Planet of little note in Astronomic esteem, although the Blessed Son of God gave His own heart's blood for its redemption. Angels desire to look into that wondrous sacrifice, which Scientists like Huxley and Darwin regard only with cynical scorn, because of their ignorance of that in which the highest and truest science consists." (Terra Firma: Earth Not a Planet, Proved from Scripture, Reason, and Fact, p. 142-143, David Wardlaw Scott)


1 Modern astronomy purports that the sun is more than 90,000,000 miles away and has a radius of more than 430,000 miles.

2 There are at least two slightly different versions of this book.

You can access an online version here: http://sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za23.htm
You can download a PDF version here: https://www.worldslastchance.com/topical-biblical-studies/download/351