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Drew:
Hello again Daywalker,
Cursory research complete. Chalcedon was the mag. and Geocentrism is the theory but at this point I'm not out to prove a point. I think I remember a comment by Mr Smith to the effect that in his opinion science and scripture compliment; not detract. Wikipedia gives a pretty taut definition of the theory. Once again, my intent for my initial post was to lend credibility to scripture and whether or not the sun is the center or the earth is the center it doesn't change what seems to have been established in this discussion; that the physical profits nothing but the spiritual does. I do hope all of this verbiage is not violating forum rules.
Drew
Craig:
--- Quote ---I can't handle this type of stuff
--- End quote ---
Grace what is there to handle?
These discussions are just the static on a bad radio station. It is all vanity and flapping in the wind. What if the world is flat or square or the moon is made of cheese? What if the sun revolves around the earth or the moon? or it just sits still? What if there was men before Adam? What if...What if??? What does it matter? Does this knowledge do anything to help us die to self? does it do anything to make us more Christlike? Does it make us more humble? loving? patient? peaceful? No, I don't think so, but it does expose the idols of our hearts or just puffs us up. We want to be worthy of being messengers of our God, but we are shown that we are not worthy of being messengers to anything. We look for the great spiritual meaning of a word or sentence in scripture and if we think we have found it we become special...Vanity, meaningless noise and babble.
Grace, using my radio analogy, don't shut off the whole radio, just change the channel whenever the static gets bad.
Craig
longhorn:
Great analogy Craig. I mean what does me burning my toast ( twice ) this morning, or the fact my cat Smokey decided the best place to throw-up was in my shoe really have to do with anything other than to tick me off and make me realize how much room I have for spiritual growth.
Longhorn
Rene:
--- Quote from: Craig on May 05, 2011, 05:34:54 AM ---
--- Quote ---I can't handle this type of stuff
--- End quote ---
Grace what is there to handle?
These discussions are just the static on a bad radio station. It is all vanity and flapping in the wind. What if the world is flat or square or the moon is made of cheese? What if the sun revolves around the earth or the moon? or it just sits still? What if there was men before Adam? What if...What if??? What does it matter? Does this knowledge do anything to help us die to self? does it do anything to make us more Christlike? Does it make us more humble? loving? patient? peaceful? No, I don't think so, but it does expose the idols of our hearts or just puffs us up. We want to be worthy of being messengers of our God, but we are shown that we are not worthy of being messengers to anything. We look for the great spiritual meaning of a word or sentence in scripture and if we think we have found it we become special...Vanity, meaningless noise and babble.
Grace, using my radio analogy, don't shut off the whole radio, just change the channel whenever the static gets bad.
Craig
--- End quote ---
Great analogy, Craig, and words of wisdom for those who have "ears to hear." :)
René
DougE6:
Hello
Just to throw a small observation into the mix. We know the axial rotation of the earth creates our periods of light and darkness, which we call days. We all know know there is 365 1/4 (averaging leap years and normal years) days in a year. SO how many times does the earth rotate on its axis, in a year? 365 1/4? Nope... 366 1/4!!!
Because the earth also rotates around the sun, even if it did NOT rotate on its axis at all, we would still have one apparent day, one sunrise, and one sunset, by virtue of the earth making this orbit around the sun. Yet because the earth actually does spin on its axis, and this rotation is in the opposite direction to its orbit around the sun, this first axial spin, does, in effect, cancel out this first "orbital day", the first apparent day! SO if the earth only rotated once in a year, the sun would stay in the same place in the sky the entire year, seem FIXED in position, rather than having one sunrise and one sunset, due to the fact the earth rotates in opposition to its orbit.
We know the earth rotates one more time each year than its apparent days. It rotates 366 times in normal years, and 367 times in leap years. This can only be true if the earth both orbits the sun and its spins on its axis. So yes, the earth does orbit the sun, and it does spin on its axis!
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