That doesn't actually answer my question - "Where does it say that the earth does not move, spin, rotate or tilt?" This implies of course that the sun orbits around the earth and that the earth is actually the center of the universe.
I just read through the creation part of Genesis again and the closest evidence I could find of this theory is that the earth was created before the sun, which means it would make more sense that the later creations (sun and planets) orbit around the earlier creation (earth) as opposed to the other way around. If I was creating a solar system, I would start in the middle and work my way out. However, I would hardly call this anything resembling proof. I also did not see anything about the sun or moon in peculiar orbits, nor anything about the earth being stationary.
So, other than the earth being created before the sun, what scripture supports this idea?
There is not one -not one- not even one!- Scripture that states the earth has a course to run in the heavens, or that it tilts, spins/ rotates or revolves. -Not one, not even one: but the Word tells us that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and runs its course in the heavens, as the stars and moon also do. The stars have courses -the dark stars [planets] wander in peculiar paths- and they control the seasons and climate and years for earth.
Look at Genesis again, with me, and see what is there about what and when: heavens and earth created -together, and reverse mention of them -earth and heavens, in chapter 2 showing that they are of a piece -and later verses prove it so.
Gen 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Now look at these facts in the first chapter:
1 no light when they were created, then light created and the revolution of the heavens is already established because the evening/night and morning/day is "one Day".
2 heavens are not stretched out and only water is seen below them.
3 firmament/heavens are stretched out on day 2, from earth, between divided waters. Firmament is called Heaven/Sha-mayim. Waters are called Mayim: -the waters were divided [denoted by the letter which depicted two front teeth], so we have sha-mayim, which also means "two waters" and I say, "as
divided by the cutting of them and the lifting of the half waters above them, as they are
stretched out".
The description of the making of the heavens in Scripture is of them being stretched out from the earth, for their furnishing of them, or "garnishing" of them.
The Ancient Hebrew Letters
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The Ancient picture for this letter is
, a picture of the two front teeth. This letter has the meanings of teeth, sharp and press (from the function of the teeth when chewing). It also has the meaning of two, again, both or second from the two teeth. [/FONT]
So the heavens were not stretched out until day 2, and half the waters of creation are lifted above them, from earth below.
The sun and moon were made and set in the stretched out heavens on day 4, and they govern the light by day and by night.
In the Word, the sun itself is not a star, but a crystal and fire "Menorah" -which gathers the light into itself and refracts it back out to the universe itself.
The sun has a course to run, and nothing in the creation is hid from its heat.
The earth never runs a course through the heavens and is declared to be fixed in place and to not move.
The sun rises in the east, through many windows ordained for its course, and sets in the west, turning in a northerly direction to enter the eastern window of its season. It's own peculiar path in the heavens caused unbelieving men to decide the earth tilts back and forth -which is not biblical in the least, and is anti-biblical.
If you want a course on the movement of the heavenly bodies in the stretched out heavens read about it in the book of Enoch, which is "Scripture" in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and always has been in their collection of books even from before they received the Gospel in the first century, because they were exiled Jews who had Enoch -like all studying Jews once did- and they read it.
The Jews of Jesus days of walking the earth had Enoch and read it. It is in the DSS Bible collection, and the heavenly courses of the bodies is described in it.
The Book of Enoch, Translated by Robert H. Charles, 1912
The Geocentric Calendar Book* (Chapters 72-82)
