Thanks, Gargy. Like Bath, I found a lot of posts were putting me on the defensive (not yours!), and I woke up with my cranky pants on this morning... I found it really upsetting that I felt I needed to justify and explain my beliefs in a Christian area of the forum. Not so cranky now, but I did find some posts were making me feel that's the way I was being seen.

TheBear, I've never found any claims in the Bible about a flat earth - do you have references for those? Also, I've always been under the impression that the vast majority of churches believed the same way mine does - that the Bible is the word of God and is literal truth... I've never thought of the Baptist church as anything other than mainstream.

BW