Flat-world believer

How many of you believe that the world is flat? No one, right? How is it that you don’t believe this simple fact? There is no way that you can tell me otherwise. What is your evidence, your proof to refute the fact of a flat world? Pictures?

Images displayed on a flat plane do not demonstrate that the world is anything other than flat. Maps produce the same evidence. What, a globe? Isn’t that merely a model someone constructed when they wadded up a map of a flat world? After all, who really knows if a globe is even an accurate depiction? How do we know that the shape of the world isn’t more like a cylinder, a donut, or a football? What, you have experts? Who told you they were experts? They’re scientific experts. Doesn’t that mean that they only have a theory too, because isn’t that what science is all about, creating theories in order to prove them? That’s not your kind of expert? Who then could be expert enough to prove that the world isn’t flat?

If you can’t answer that question, then Houston, we have a problem.

Having come this far, you’re probably asking yourself, “What is this nut job trying to say that is relevant to me?” It’s really simple. Today with all that we know, with all that scientific discovery has found from the depths of the oceans, the breadth of our universe and beyond, the width of the human species, and the heights of our natural environment, those who wrote the narrative of Israel, and the one the western church calls the Christ, were all flat-world believers living in an unexplored multi-dimensional reality.

All language is an expression of patterns of belief. This is why you won’t find anything in their writings mentioning computers, electricity, gasoline, steam power, cancer, leukemia, gravity, nuclear fusion, or any of a host of “current” conditions or systems relevant to our day and age. These things were unknown to them, or better yet, indescribable when, and even if, they encountered them. It is here that they had their greatest difficulty attempting to capture with their words the splendor of a Creative being greater than themselves. Words and metaphors often fell flat in what they believed and tried to convey to future generations of flat-landers.

Today, we happily proclaim to one another that God is multi-faceted (a three-dimensional concept) using flat-world support text. Some proclaim the superiority of a flat-world library in our multi-dimensional society insisting that if it’s not found in the writings of this library than it’s not uniquely representative of their world view. A flat-world paradigm falls flat in a multi-dimensional reality every time.

I don’t want you to think that I’m promoting science over belief. What I’m trying to convey is that today we have a greater, richer opportunity to describe our beliefs because of science. It has given us language that, while still limited, enables us to reach vastly beyond the realm of flat-world concepts and metaphors. It has promoted a truly multi-cultural, multi-social, multi-faceted representation of the Creator of all. Some may not see this yet, but that will come as the flatness of their being is inflated by the wind of the new reality in who we have always been. I can flat out confess that there is still a greater realm we haven’t peered into or developed the language to convey and it awaits our gaze of wonder.