Tcg wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:46 am
Which "skeptics" have suggested that the Bible presents that the earth as the center of the universe. Absent this is your objection anything other than a strawman which we all know is easy to knock down.
I'll push back a bit re: the issue of the Bible's view of the Earth as the "center" of the universe. We can debate the meaning of various passages, but it is clear that apologists have long favored the view that the Bible is the center of everything, even when finally agreeing it is not the '"geometric" center of the universe.'
However, the earth occupies the central position in the entire universe because of its God-given role, even though it may not be in the geometrical center. The first astronomical object that God created was the earth; this clearly indicates its importance amongst all of the other stars and planets. The creation account gives a day by day report on the preparation of the earth as man’s dwelling place. God’s attention focuses on this planet: “"To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it"” (Deut. 10:14). On this planet, He implemented most of His creative ideas, as the Psalmist cries out: “". . . the earth is full of your creatures"” (Ps. 104:24). No other astronomical body is called God’s footstool (Isa. 66:1; Acts 7:49). The clearest indication of the earth’s central position is that God’s own Son was sent here. Jesus Christ became a human being for our sake. He destroyed man’s sin exactly in that place where it had been introduced into the universe, namely the earth! The cross of salvation stood on Calvary and no other place in the cosmos. Jesus ascended to heaven from the earth, and He will return here as exalted Lord when He comes again.
These few cosmological considerations from the Bible clearly indicate that evolutionist ideas are completely foreign to Scripture.
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https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/ ... erse-ob12/
There are many scriptural references to the geocentric model, whether one wishes to limit this to the solar system or the universe. I suggest Biblical authors did not make this distinction. Just a few of many references:
The most important biblical quote supporting a geocentric universe can be found in the Book of Joshua. This will be used as the starting point for our scriptural cosmology.
Joshua 10:12-13
Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
The miracle of Joshua appears again as a reference in The Book of Habakkuk.
Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.
The evidence in support of a geocentric model is overwhelming here. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. He did not order the earth to cease rotating nor did he qualify his statement with the divine knowledge that the sun was merely made to appear stationary. The sun was commanded to stand still because it is the sun that moves. Descriptions of its motion can be rather poetic.
Psalms 19:4-6
yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs his course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
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https://hypertextbook.com/eworld/geocentric/
