Citing an atheist scientist, a Christian scientist, and a Catholic astronomer, Brother Bill Pinto explains that if one interprets the Creation account of Genesis literally, then they have no choice but to become a flat-earth advocate.

This is highly problematic for Sabbath-keepers who claim to believe in the literal six-day account of Creation, yet seek to uphold the model of a spinning globe.

For if one believes that creation week spanned six-literal days, then shouldn’t they also take a literal approach to the description of what God made during those six days?

And since the Sabbath is the memorial of Creation, isn’t it crucial to have a correct understanding of what God Created, in order to have a complete appreciation and respect for the memorial ?

As the famed theologian Rudolf Bultmann put it, modern science “has destroyed the old creation stories”. Astronomical ideas such as the Big Bang theory have served to counter the literal interpretation of Scripture more than any other factor. Yet these theories — which society at large regards as fact — are utterly incompatible with the Genesis portrayal of a literal six-day creation, taking place approximately 6000 years ago. So what is the globe-believing Sabbath-keeper to make of this blatant contradiction? 

He who has ever been a steadfast defender of a literal 6-day creation, is now confounded by the findings of modern science concerning the age and origin of this Earth, and must either conclude that such science is false, or submit to the oxymoronic notion of theistic evolution. The latter is surely a far cry from the Sabbath-keeper’s mind. Yet can he honestly accept only part of the science he otherwise admires, and similarly, accept only a part of the Bible? Can he honestly dismiss the fact that the sun, moon, and stars were created on day 4, and were placed inside the firmament which God created to divide the waters above from the waters below? For the True Christian, the claims of science need not be met half-way. For in the first chapter of the Bible, the entire heliocentric model collapses.