(April 24, 2012 at 3:36 pm)Watchman Wrote: Angelo ..(Jireh)
Just popped back to see how it was going…
Sorry to butt in here ,but did I just see you state that the Bible does not posit a geo-centric model for the solar system…..
Extract from the end of post 213…
“The evidence is obvious.
(Mister Agenda quote) As obvious as the sun going around the earth.”
Jireh posted:
“said who ? certainly not the bible”
You did !
You said it !
You little tinker…
And you call yourself an Evangelist….
Please ……. allow me to correct you…
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.
Link:
http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/geocentric.shtml
The Nuns would be angry if they knew you messed up on that one.
the bible used of course a popular language. You say certainly : " the sun is going down ". In the same way, the bible uses popular terms.
http://elshamah.heavenforum.org/t17-does...th-is-flat
Quote:a case of a creator, page 107
Writers of astronomy textbooks just keep recycling the myth, sort of like the flat-Earth myth, which was the idea that Columbus was told the Earth was flat and he thought it was round. That's just wrong too."
"Scholars at the time knew it was a sphere," added Gonzalez. "Even the ancient Greeks knew it was a sphere."
"They'd known it for a thousand years or more," said Richards.
I knew they were right about that. David Lindberg, former professor of the history of science and currently director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, said in a recent interview:
One obvious [myth] is that before Columbus, Europeans believed nearly unanimously in a flat Earth-a belief allegedly drawn from certain biblical statements and enforced by the medieval church. This myth seems to have had an eighteenth century origin, elaborated and popularized by Washington Irving, who flagrantly fabricated evidence for it in his four-volume history of Columbus.... The truth is that it's almost impossible to find an educated person after Aristotle who doubts that the Earth is a sphere. In the Middle Ages, you couldn't emerge from any kind of education, cathedral school or university, without being perfectly clear about the Earth's sphericity and even its approximate circumference.
