IFireflyl said:
OoSnap said:
IFireflyl said:
I am a Christian. You're interpretting things the way you want to, and they are wrong. Everyone still calls it "sunset" and "sunrise" even though (nearly) everyone knows that the Earth rotates around the sun, and not the other way around. We say that because from our perspective it looks that way, not because that's what is actually happening. Your first Psalms references aren't even literally saying that the Earth is unmoving.
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Psalms 96:7-10
7 Give to the LORD, you families of nations,
give to the LORD glory and might;
8 give to the LORD the glory due his name!
Bring gifts and enter his courts;
9 bow down to the LORD, splendid in holiness.
Tremble before him, all the earth;
10 declare among the nations: The LORD is king.
The world will surely stand fast, never to be shaken.
He rules the peoples with fairness |
Stop taking the Bible versus out of context to try to "prove" your point.
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How do you explain Joshua's long day? Do you actually believe God stopped the spinning of the Earth which would cause tidal waves and tsunamis?
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God can do anything He wants. He could have stopped the Earth from spinning, and done so without harming the Earth. As a believer you should know that he has the power to do this. He could have also moved the entire universe to match the Earth. He could have also frozen time for the Earth. We can't know how He does what He does, but only that He does them. You can't believe in an entity with unlimited power, and then refuse to believe that He has the power to do something that you perceive to be impossible.
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Or the Bible reads what it means and means what it says that God stopped the Sun. I'm going to stick with that.
I'm curious, do you think a global flood was literal? Sodom and Gomorrah was literal? Do you believe God created the heavens and the Earth in the beginning as literal?
And by the way, the geocentric view, I believe, was believed by the ancient Jews.
