Daniel1769
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The idea of the the sun standing still in the sky seems so well established that the idea of questioning this notion seems laughable. Absurd. Utterly ridiculous and stupid. After all, the scientists say the sun is sitting there with the earth flying around it at about 67,000 miles per hour. They taught this fact to us in school. It must be true. But how do you know it is true?
You look into the sky, and throughout the day, the sun appears to move. You see the sun moving. You don't see or feel yourself moving. You were never in space to look down at earth and see it move around the sun. Yet you believe the sun is still.
What does this have to do with the Bible?
Most Christians on TOL, and most I know personally, reject the theory of evolution. They claim it is unbiblical. Most claim that is any self-described Christian accepts evolution, they simply aren't believing what the Bible clearly states. Yet they accept the heliocentric model without a second thought, even though the Bible clearly teaches that the sun moves around the earth.
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
So how are we to be Biblical literalists when it comes to evolutionary theory, but dismiss the above scriptures as symbology or metaphors? Why should I not believe exactly what the Bible says? Should I fear ridicule from the same people who believe that nothing exploded and turned into everything all by itself billions of years ago?
You look into the sky, and throughout the day, the sun appears to move. You see the sun moving. You don't see or feel yourself moving. You were never in space to look down at earth and see it move around the sun. Yet you believe the sun is still.
What does this have to do with the Bible?
Most Christians on TOL, and most I know personally, reject the theory of evolution. They claim it is unbiblical. Most claim that is any self-described Christian accepts evolution, they simply aren't believing what the Bible clearly states. Yet they accept the heliocentric model without a second thought, even though the Bible clearly teaches that the sun moves around the earth.
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
So how are we to be Biblical literalists when it comes to evolutionary theory, but dismiss the above scriptures as symbology or metaphors? Why should I not believe exactly what the Bible says? Should I fear ridicule from the same people who believe that nothing exploded and turned into everything all by itself billions of years ago?
