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To: Behemoth the Cat
If, however, you treat the Bible as an exhaustive, non-allegorical treatise about cosmology and biology, then go back to the geocentric theory, because there are passages in the Bible supporting this model too.

Book, chapter and verse, please.

26 posted on 10/10/2009 3:49:11 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

16: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Where is the second light?


52 posted on 10/10/2009 9:45:24 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: metmom

This is the first commandment of the luminaries: The sun is a luminary whose egress is an opening of heaven, which is (located) in the direction of the east, and whose ingress is (another) opening of heaven, (located) in the west. I saw six openings through which the sun rises and six openings through which it sets. The moon also rises and sets through the same openings, and they are guided by the stars; together with those whom they lead, they are six in the east and six in the west heaven. All of them (are arranged) one after another in a constant order. There are many windows (both) to the right and the left of these openings. First there goes out the great light whose name is the sun; its roundness is like the roundness of the sky; and it is totally filled with light and heat. The chariot in which it ascends is (driven by) the blowing wind. The sun sets in the sky (in the west) and returns by the northeast in order to go to the east; it is guided so that it shall reach the eastern gate and shine in the face of the sky (1 Enoch 72:2-5).


56 posted on 10/10/2009 10:09:37 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: metmom
I know you are not unfamiliar with Psalm 104 as I have quoted it to you previously.

He set the foundations of the Earth, so that it should not be moved forever.

Our resident Geocentric Freepers say that if you accept that the Earth is in orbit around the Sun you are “putting the words of men above the word of God”.

Once you accept this particular “literal” interpretation as “the word of God”, by what mechanism would a creationist care to correct themselves?

Oh yes, creationists are not interested in correcting themselves, they are FAR more interested in saying someone is not ‘really’ a Christian or ‘pretending’ to be a Christian if they do not accept the creationists interpretation.

“evolution is a fact which enriches our understanding of life and being and such” Pope Benedict XVI

156 posted on 10/13/2009 3:46:35 PM PDT by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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