But let’s go back a step to ask why the earth had to be flat.

and that leads me to a deeper question that some people wonder about.  “If God is Love, why does he let all these terrible things happen.”

I have the solution to both philosophical problems.  #1 God makes mistakes.

God also is really embarrassed by those mistakes. And similar to most people God wants to have those mistakes forgotten and the record cleared.

So at one point around year 900 or so, who knows for sure?

God took took the earth by storm and rolling pin:

The flat earth period began.  Why did he do it you might ask?

It happened because God took seriously the phrase Sweep it under the carpet, and God needed a carpet as big as the earth itself to put all his dirt under.