That's true, in many ways geocentricism did seem like the perfectly clear and even in some ways literal interpretation, yet it never was definitive in any way shape or form. Not only that, it had no real doctrinal significance.
It is hard to step outside our CrEvo perspectives and compare how definitive interpretations seemed. You have steeped yourself in YEC exegesis and apologetics, as is quite reasonable for you to do in you position. However you have probably spent your Christian life skimming over the seemingly geocentric passages not realising you weren't taking them literally. You are also probably unaware of the array of scriptural and in their mind scientific arguments, just as convincing to the geocentrist as AiG arguments are to YEC.
Standing on the outside, though I may be unwittingly biased here, I think there is a much stronger scriptural case for geocentrism than for a young earth.
Calvin writing before the controversy, gave us his commentary on Psalm 93:1 Yes
, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Calvin said:
The Psalmist proves that God will not neglect or abandon the world, from the fact that he created it. A simple survey of the world should of itself suffice to attest a Divine Providence. The heavens revolve daily, and, immense as is their fabric, and inconceivable the rapidity of their revolutions, we experience no concussion no disturbance in the harmony of their motion. The sun, though varying its course every diurnal revolution, returns annually to the same point. The planets, in all their wanderings, maintain their respective positions. How could the earth hang suspended in the air were it not upheld by Gods hand? By what means could it maintain itself unmoved, while the heavens above are in constant rapid motion, did not its Divine Maker fix and establish it? Accordingly the particle אף, aph, denoting emphasis, is introduced Yea, he hath established it.
Luther wrote:
Luther said:
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
The gentle and scholarly Philip Melanchthon used
Eccles 1:5
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises to refute Copernicus.
There is no suggestion that Solomon is being anything other than literal here. The passage in Joshua is in the middle of a historical narrative.
In the Psalm, God's throne is as established as the established, unmovable earth.
Who today really cares whether we're helio or geo centric? Not me!
So when Darwin has been around as long as Copernicus, do you think no one will care about the age of the earth or how species evolved either, and the church will treat YEC interpretations the way geocentric interpretations are just a historic footnote now?
I truly believe that evolution is a form of idolatry. There is, IMO, an excessive or even blind adherence to the tenets of evolution. This is no different than materialism, the way we see athletes or movie stars, even people who worship the Bible instead of the Lord Jesus. Idolatry has many, many different forms.
Idolatry is worship, bowing down physically or in your heart and giving yourself to the object of you idolatry in love and devotion.
Rom 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. That is what people do when they bow before idols, that is also what happens people gives their lives to the desire of material things. Greed is idolatry because people devote their hearts and lives to having that latest bright and shiny possession.
But being convinced that scientific evidence shows an ancient earth and common ancestry has nothing to do with idolatry. Preachers who promote that lie are preaching slander, and it is really ugly. It has no place in the body of Christ
I guess we all have a different version of that too!
You have a version that where Genesis says the world was created in six day? Or that the days were consecutive? Or that the heavens and the earth were created on the first day rather than before it?
