Flat Earth Bible 01 Of 10 - Introduction

The Flat Earth Bible 01 of 10 - Introduction

The Purpose of these Presentations 1.

To show how ridiculous the claims of Biblical inerrancy made by Christian Fundamentalists are.(Islamic & Hindu Fundamentalists make similar claims for their Religions)

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To show that if you believe that every word of the Bible is literally true, then you have to believe in a Flat Earth.

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To provide ammunition for those trying to fight of the unwanted attention of aggressive Fundamentalist Evangelists who will not take ”No” for an answer.

Purpose (Continued) Many Christian Fundamentalist groups often seek out the most vulnerable groups such as Foreign Students who may be feeling lonely and isolated in a strange new Country and feign friendship in order to lure them into their orbit. Such people are often unprepared for the unfamiliar, well rehearsed and devious conversion techniques that are likely to be used against them. This is why they are selected as easy targets

Definition of Christian Fundamentalism 1. 2. 3. • •

The belief that the Bible is divinely inspired, of supernatural origin and not merely a human creation. The belief that the Bible is literally true in all instances and inerrant on absolutely all matters. The belief that the Conservative Evangelical Protestant interpretation of the Bible is the only acceptable one. The belief that non-Fundamentalists are serving the Devil, either knowingly or unknowingly. The belief that the whole World should be a Theocracy based on the Fundamentalists interpretation of the Bible..

Christianity does not equal Fundamentalism 1.

Christian Fundamentalists are almost entirely Conservative, Evangelical Protestants.

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Many often try to monopolise the word “Christian” and use it in a narrow and exclusive way.

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In reality, they are a small but very vocal minority of the Worlds 2 Billion Christians.

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Christian Fundamentalism is very well organised with enormous resources and very extreme views.

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They often use very clever, but misleading arguments that do not stand up to close scrutiny.

Christian Fundamentalism in perspective Fundamentalist Protestants 6 – 7 % Mainstream Protestants 18-19 %

Roman Catholic Christians 60 %

Orthodox Christians 15 %

Protestant Fundamentalists are a small percentage of the Worlds 2 Billion Christians.Other Christian Fundamentalist or similar groups are quite small. Jehovah’s witnesses have about 7 million members and Mormons have about 13 million.members.

According to the Bible 1. The Earth is Flat, Circular & held up by Pillars in a Cosmic Ocean. 2. The Sky is solid & held up by Pillars. 3. Heaven is a place up in the Sky where God lives. 4. The Sun, Moon & Stars are just little lights in the Sky moving around a stationary Earth. 5. Dead people exist under the ground. 6. Jesus & his Disciples believed all of the above

Bibles used

It is very hard to find a version of the Bible that is acceptable to everyone. Protestant Fundamentalists & Mormons tend to prefer the King James Version. Jehovah's Witnesses use the New World Translation.

Bibles used Revised Standard Version http://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rsv/browse.html King James Version http://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html Good News Bible http://bibletools.org//index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/1/eVerseID /1/version/GNB/opt/comm/RTD/CGG Jerusalem Bible http://www.catholic.org/bible/ New World Translation http://www.watchtower.org/bible/toc.htm Hebrew-English Jewish Bible http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm

The Biblical Map of the World Europe

(Descendants of Japheth)

Asia

Jerusalem

Africa

(Descendants of Ham)

(Descendants of Shem)

All the parts of the World mentioned in the Bible fit into this map. The Americas, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia were unknown to the writers of the Bible

The Biblical Cosmos (See next page)

Legend for Biblical Cosmos

Continued on next Presentation ……