Christian Flat Earthers

I have a vision of Christopher Columbus coming back from the new world.  Indians and Tobacco on board.  Stories regaling all.

 

There were people in that court who denied that it was possible. After all the Bible talks of the four corners of the earth.  So the earth must be flat.  It's in the Bible so it must be true.   Of course they didn't see what the Bible really said.

 

No matter the evidence, no matter the testimony, no matter the tangibility of it all and the impossibility of recanting the experience Columbus and his crew had experienced, there were in the court of Ferdinand people who went to their grave convinced that  Columbus was a fraud, the earth was flat and it wall all a bad misunderstanding of scripture.

 

That has happened before.  Jesus disciples saw, touched and ate with the Risen Christ.  They knew him.  Most of them went to martyrdom without recanting, not even one.  If they experienced the risen Christ they couldn't recant.  Reality is reality and if it costs you your life, so be it.  Denying reality is insanity. 

 

No matter the insistence of the Jews and Romans the reality of the Risen Christ drove the Church forward.

 

So, when I get well meaning and long explanations as to why the gift of tongues, in fact why most of the other gifts of the Spirit, have passed away I'm not only amused but saddened.  These people have taken scripture to try to prove against something the bulk of Christendom has experienced already.  The infilling Power of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of Speaking in Tongues. 

 

They are very much like the flat earthers of old.  In fact there is still a flat earth society.  I think it's mostly a joke now.  I just hope that someday when 99% of the world who names then name of Jesus as Lord speaks in the Tongues of Men and Angels supernaturally there won't still be a few who have a cessasionist flat earth mentality.

 

Unfortunately, most of them who are so blinded will go to their grave without every knowing or experiencing the truth of the last orders of Jesus, Be Baptized in the Holy Spirit.  Be ye filled with the Holy Ghost.