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The Sun Revolves Around The Earth: Scripture Cannot Lie

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Scripture did not lie. It didn't say the sun goes round the earth. In point of fact, it doesn't even say the sun rises or sets, as those words cannot be found in the Greek or the Hebrew.

Those are not Scripture. Scripture does not say anything about stretching ANYTHING out in Genesis. Besides the fact that your claim is about as Scriptural as one eyed talking ponies, we have seen the sun at the center ofthe solar system.

You would tell God Himself that He is wrong if HE told you the sun is the center of the Solar System.
 
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Also, again, the stretched out firmament was named "two waters", written with the sign for the two front teeth -the /Hebrew letter "shin", and the word for the "Waters/Mayim".
The waters of this globe were divided in two, and the firmament/expanse was stretched out in stories between them. The face of them is the atmosphere, as Genesis 1 states it is where the fowl fly.
 
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Here's something interesting I'd like to propose, just to bring out the presuppositions science incurs:

Can you prove that the moon is not hollow, despite the fact that actual experiment indicates that it is as hollow as a bell?
What's moving the Earth's tides and so forth, if the moon is hollow?
 
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Now you're just making stuff up. Nice.

Let's read it in its plain text, please. None of your additions and the entire chapter without bold letters.
 
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Those are not Scripture. Scripture does not say anything about stretching ANYTHING out in Genesis. Besides the fact that your claim is about as Scriptural as one eyed talking ponies, we have seen the sun at the center ofthe solar system.

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Stop being so hot under the collar, and before making such claims, check out the words and their meanings -you would learn from them, if you have a heart to learn, that is.

When God said:
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament/ רָקִיעַ in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
He was stating exactly that there was to be an expansion between the divided in two waters, beat out/stretched out. He was calling for the powers to stretch out in layers -to be beat out in stories/layers, expanded to be the great breadth, reaching way out and still remaining the circle of the earth, and between the divided in two waters.
The root word for the expanse/firmament is raqa/ רָקַע: to beat, stamp, beat out, spread out, stretch..
So yes, Genesis 1 states that He stretched out the heavens between the divided in two waters of this earth, and named the firmament/the expanse "heavens/sha mayim/ two waters".
He also beat out the "dry" which he named earth, out of the waters below, in the same manner.

Isa 42:5Thus saith God the LORD, he that created/made the heavens, and stretched/natah them out; he that spread forth/ raqa` the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

So in Genesis 1, God said let there be [the] expanse between the divided in two waters, and the word means to stretch out, and in Isaiah 42, He uses also the word natah for the stretching out of the heavens and the word raqa` for the stretching out/ beating out making broad the earth.



 
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They are sent out using Geo-centric co-ordinates, but they could have any point of reference...
If Mars orbits the earth, the flight plan to send a probe there will be completely different from the flight plan if both Earth and Mars orbit the sun.

How could our NASA probes possibly get there unless their maths were correct?
 
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Amo 9:6 It is he that buildeth his stories H4609 in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.


The Vision of Paradise

2 Cor 12:
It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord:
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4how he was caught up into Paradise
 
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If Mars orbits the earth, the flight plan to send a probe there will be completely different from the flight plan if both Earth and Mars orbit the sun.

How could our NASA probes possibly get there unless their maths were correct?

Not really.

Let me put in perspective, as a prime example, of what is happening when one orbits the Earth.

You're actually falling in space- perpetually. You miss the Earth, and simply fall around it.
That is to say, the sensation of an astronaut in space is like skydiving, except there is no wind resistance.

We use the same math which dictates orbiting Earth in getting to Mars, but in that, there's really no integral notion that the Earth is not the center of the universe. In fact, it sort of compliments the notion if one forgets the non-geocentric model.
 
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Maybe I'm imagining it wrongly then, but from a very simplistic point of view, unless the planets had the same year-length (and they don't, as I understand it) - then wouldn't their distance from earth vary wildly, based on their relative position around the sun, if one assumes a heliocentric model? I just don't see how it could be possible to use that model to predict the location of other planets, and still manage to get the calculations right if the geocentric model were true. Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears as basic as trying to say 2+2=27 - and being right.
 
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The heliocentric model explains the wandering motion of the other planets very well. His explanation of orbiting is very accurate, however.
 
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That's the problem, however. If you assume the earth is the center, you ignore something very important: momentum. You see, since we are on the earth, we are moving at the same speed as the earth. If the earth is NOT moving, then we do not need to calculate for our current momentum. However, if you would really like to get into a discussion of the trips we take to Mars on a regular basis, here:

Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics
 
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Stop being so hot under the collar, and before making such claims, check out the words and their meanings -you would learn from them, if you have a heart to learn, that is.

I have a heart to learn, but I don't need someone making a theological text into a science text for me to understand science.



You are reading quite a bit of extrascriptural explanation into it that is not evidenced in the text, the definitions of the words, or the Jewish traditions. For a second thing, the firmament was broken in the flood, which caused massive amounts of rain, and an extinction level event wherein all but a single family and the animals on the ark were destroyed.

The firmament is no longer with us
 
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The heliocentric model explains the wandering motion of the other planets very well. His explanation of orbiting is very accurate, however.

OK. I'll defer on that one then. My background is in the biological sciences. My geology is weak, my physics and astronomy even weaker.

I was just imagining him to say that Mars orbiting earth was a sufficient mathematical model to predict Mars' location. And if Mars and Earth both orbit the sun, with different year-lengths ... wouldn't Mars be MUCH further from Earth at certain times? Unless the velocity ... no ... never mind. If they have differing year-lengths, then they are going to be at different points of orbit relative to one another around the sun at different points in time, no? So wouldn't their relative distance from one another (Earth and Mars) change by some measure of the distance of the orbital path?

I'm trying to imagine it. Maybe I just don't get it. Wouldn't be the first time. I just don't have a dog in this fight, as they say ... and not enough time to devote where I want to as it is.

Thanks for the correction then.
 
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You're actually on the exact right path.

Mars has a year-length of 686.98 days, so it travels once around the sun in the time we travel twice. So yes, the relative distance is variable. We use a Hohmann Transfer Orbit to travel to Mars, generally in order that we can land on Mars. That orbit can also be used to enter the orbit of Mars, should we ever land on the planet.
 
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Kylissa you're still light years ahead of YSM with your knowledge and education of the cosmos. That's for sure!

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No, I believe the flight path would be different. To accurately predict where Mars is in a geocentric model, you'll need to add multiple spheres like Ptolemy did. And even then you'll still have discrepancies. Otoh, the Copernican system with relativistic corrections will get you there.
 
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