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To: Behemoth the Cat

Verses from *Psalms* which are songs? Do you read songs and poetry as literal?

And how do those verses say that the universe is geocentric?

BTW, don’t scientists say *sunrise* and *sunset*? Don’t astronomers use the term *celestial shpere* when describing the heavens?

Does that mean that they think the sun moves around the earth and that the earth in in the middle of a dome?


66 posted on 10/11/2009 7:10:19 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
"Verses from *Psalms* which are songs? Do you read songs and poetry as literal?"

Ah, mere "songs" in the Bible, songs, which should not be interpreted literally? So maybe the Genesis is also an allegorical introduction to the Scriptures?

"And how do those verses say that the universe is geocentric?"

If the Earth is unmovable, and the Sun sets and rises, it implies that it circles the Earth.

"BTW, don’t scientists say *sunrise* and *sunset*? Don’t astronomers use the term *celestial shpere* when describing the heavens? Does that mean that they think the sun moves around the earth and that the earth in in the middle of a dome?"

My point exactly. We often abbreviate and simplify, but it does not mean these simplifications and abbreviations represent the whole and only truth. So abbreviates and simplifies the Bible, and you correctly argue that the Bible does it with respect to astronomy. Right? So why suddenly the passages which can be associated with biology are to be read literally?

87 posted on 10/11/2009 10:44:45 AM PDT by Behemoth the Cat
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