>>640391
>I don't understand where this belief comes from. Someone please explain why The Bible is a flat earth book.
As I understand it, they mostly take prophetic texts that are using blatantly symbolic language and interpret it as if God were too surface-level in his communications to use metaphorical imagery. For example there's a bunch of places where there's references to "the four corners of the earth." Another example is where it talks about "the circle of the earth." When people who can't think for themselves are hammered with very enthusiastic people insisting upon something for long enough, eventually start to buy into stupid ideas. For the record, the ancients knew damn well that the earth wasn't flat… Flat-Earth is very modern.
>>651167
>It's for similar reasons we have doctrines like Calvinism, people don't listen to God and they instead put God in a box.
I assume you have an emotional pre-commitment to the doctrine of free will. Perhaps a family member that died without repenting? I'm sorry. From my perspective, it's not a matter of putting God in a box, but a matter of taking man out of the box that God put us in… Attempting to elevate our will to be equal with God's. I recommend listening to the best that the other side has to offer before you solidify your conclusions.
>>651203
>What did God mean by this when he made the Bible?
No idea what you're even commenting on… But God does provide teachers to the church to help elaborate upon what he's already given. Extra-biblical teaching can still be instructive when held to consistency with scripture. If you disagree, then what is the purpose of a teacher in the church?