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To: TraditionalistMommy
I think it’s pretty clear the Earth is the heart of God’s creation, and the heavens exist to exult Him.

Gee, I think you would have burned Copernicus at the stake.

It is the absolute height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in God's vast universe.

To paraphrase, Jesus said something along the line of "My Father's house has many rooms."

The Bible, at the time, was written for people far more primitive than us. The thought of man walking on the moon would have been unthinkable in the days Our Lord walked the Earth.

14 posted on 08/06/2007 5:28:27 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81
Odd, was browsing the internet mere minutes ago, and ran across this: http://www.fixedearth.com/the_bible/koran.html

On this, you seem to be in line with them.

Your Bible quote refers clearly to salvation being offered to all humans. The Bible verse doesn't remotely suggest that there are other inhabited worlds in this universe.

The Bible was written for people exactly as primitive as humans today--because it was written for humans today (and of yesteryear).

People have dreamed of spaceflight for a very long time.

Contrary, to the link, the Bible does not refute Copernicus. Even today the terms sunrise and sunset are in use.

Just as velocity is relative (you could say you're standing still, but since you're on Earth, you're hurtling around the Sun, which is hurtling around the Milky Way, which could be hurtling around its galactic cluster group), from the human relative standpoint, the Sun rises and sets--because the Earth rotates.

15 posted on 08/06/2007 6:04:26 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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