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Relative to the fall of man and God's plan of salvation, of course the Earth is at the centre. The Earth is our frame of reference. It wouldn't make sense to refer to any other place as the focus of our salvation when the Earth is where it all plays out. That doesn't mean the physical universe orbits around the Earth though. The fact that the Earth is a globe which physically orbits the Sun, which itself physically orbits the centre mass of the Milky Way galaxy has no bearing on the salvation of mankind.It's Amazing AMAZING to me that 27 Different Early Church Writers Affirm A Geocentric Cosmology in the first 500 years of The Church and even left Literal Quotes for Us but that's not enough evidence for The Church today ....
Ambrose,
Aphrahat,
Archeleus,
Arnobius,
Athanasius of Alexandria,
Athenagoras,
Augustine,
Basil:,
John Cassian,
John Chrysostom,
Clement of Rome,
Cyril of Jerusalem,
Ephraim the Syrian,
Eusebius,
Gregory Nanzianzus,
Gregory of Nyssa,
Gregory Thaumaturgos,
Hippolytus,
Irenaeus,
Jerome,
John Damascene,
Justin Martyr,
Mathetes,
Memoirs of Edessa,
Methodius,
Tertullian,
There are others like Origen, Martin Luther and John Calvin also that came a thousand years latter.
Geocentric Early Church Writer Quotes
(Please Be Kind even if you don't agree so the thread stays open) • Ambrose: Worthy surely was he to stand forth as a man who might stay the course of the river, and who might say: “Sun, stand still,” and delay the night and lengthen the day, as though to witness his victory. Why? a blessing...www.christianforums.com
No. It just requires one medium to refract light, which in the case of rainbows is millions of tiny water droplets. No glass required.
How about from above.And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.Ezekiel 1:22
So now look at the rainbow with a fresh eye:
bigthink.com
Sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction and scattering of light from horizontally oriented plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either suspended in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or drifting in freezing moist air at low levels as diamond dust.The crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. As the crystals gently float downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal, sunlight is refracted horizontally, and sun dogs are seen to the left and right of the Sun. Larger plates wobble more, and thus produce taller sun dogs.
Sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction and scattering of light from horizontally oriented plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either suspended in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or drifting in freezing moist air at low levels as diamond dust.The crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. As the crystals gently float downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal, sunlight is refracted horizontally, and sun dogs are seen to the left and right of the Sun. Larger plates wobble more, and thus produce taller sun dogs.
Sun dog - Wikipedia
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It's not just Prodomos who says so. I just did a google search for "Sundogs explained," and there were loads of results, including this one from the BBC: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/sun-dogs
Nobody programmed me into believing it. I hadn't heard of Sundogs before this thread, so I looked it up. I assume you looked up what you found about sundogs being caused by reflections or refractions of a glass dome, in your view.
So what makes your source more trustworthy than mine? The bible doesn't even mention sundogs, or reflections of the firmament, so you can't say that your source is biblical and mine not.
Why would sunlight reflecting off a dome look like that? Has anyone demonstrated the phenomenon using a model?
