1.) To what extent to you all believe that a supreme being (i.e. G-d created the flat earth disk as opposed to a big bang cosmology of sorts)
I believe God created the world. I do not believe the big bang theory.
2.) How do you all feel about what is under the earth? What is beneath this flat earth disk?
I should first state that I accept the assertion of Saint Gregory Nazianzus, the fourth century bishop of Constantinople, that angels uphold the earth. I do not consider that contradictory to the following subterranean cosmology:
I believe that the earth rests upon water which includes the oceans of this world. Any extent of ocean floor rests upon water underneath it.
Underneath this water is fire.
Underneath this fire is air.
Underneath this air is darkness.
I do not believe it is possible to know what is underneath the darkness.
This subterranean cosmology of water, fire, air, and finally darkness at the lowest level (the four elements) is derived from:
A Cosmological Tract
By Dionysios the Areopagite
This link has the text accompanied by a diagram:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/jras/1917-07.htmThis Dionysios has been considered by most protestants and many secularists since the sixteenth century to be a much later writer who used Dionysios's name (hence the apellation "pseudo-Dionysios"). I believe their conclusion is baseless and mistaken. I believe that the author of this short essay is the first century (A.D.) greek disciple of Saint Paul mentioned in chapter 17, verse 34 of the Book of Acts:
"So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them."
http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/new-testament/acts/17.asp----------------------------------------------------------------------
I will quote the relevant passage from the 'Cosmological Tract' which discusses the interaction of the sun's heat with the subterranean water in effecting the seasons. In reading this, the statement of Saint John Damascus that water is cool by nature should be borne in mind:
"Again, I explain without error to those who possess understanding the variation of the lower sea.
Under the earth is the dreadful sea (containing) much water, and under the water (there is) fire, and under the fire wind, and under the wind darkness, (but) under the darkness do not ask for anything. In the hot days of summer, as soon as the sun mounts to the upper region, to the heat of this firmament, its disc is heated in the heat above, and it heats the earth like an oven of fire. Suddenly the fire under the water is quenched, the waters of the lower sea stand up and the wind of cold blows on them, the cold mounts and ascends from the interior of the earth and passes into the roots of the trees and plants and into the veins of the rocks, and the dust of the earth becomes cold, that the sun may not burn the trees, the seeds, and the plants. For if the cold did not ascend from the interior of the earth the sun would not leave anything without burning it. People, too, would not be able to walk on the earth in consequence of the heat of the fire. Because the surface of the earth from beneath is made like a sponge and its whole interior is made of canals and hollows for the flowing of the water of the streams and springs, and also for the action of the cold and the heat. In the hot days of summer, where there is no water, the animals and the birds dig into the interior of the earth and find cold soil and are relieved by it. The men, too, who are in the southem countries, that is, in the land of Kush and Sheba, dig into the sand of their land during the hot days of summer and, although naked, they are protected and relieved by the coolness.
Another season, the winter.
In the days of winter, as soon as the disc of the sun is thrown to the south to the cold, the storehouses of the wind of snow and ice and blasts and whirlwinds (are opened), and the heat of the sun is assuaged..."