Was Christ a Geocentrist?

And just to lay some ground work, the history of cosmology is Geocentricity, to Heliocentricity, to Relativity. Relativity placed Copernicus and Ptolemy on equal ground. Scientifically, one was not more right than the other.
 
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Ekklesian said:
And just to lay some ground work, the history of cosmology is Geocentricity, to Heliocentricity, to Relativity. Relativity placed Copernicus and Ptolemy on equal ground. Scientifically, one was not more right than the other.
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Are you really sure you want to get into the the philosophy of science? We can spend hours doing this and it will only result in what Aristotle called the “unmoved mover.”
 
Huk said:
Are you really sure you want to get into the the philosophy of science? We can spend hours doing this and it will only result in what Aristotle called the “unmoved mover.”
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There's nothing to get into, except to recognize one's misconceptions about reality, and to concede to what we're being told in the Scriptures.
 
Ekklesian said:
There's nothing to get into, except to recognize one's misconceptions about reality, and to concede to what we're being told in the Scriptures.
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Well, Aristotle wasn’t a Christian, but he recognized Christian truths such as the existence of one God.
 
Ekklesian said:
Christ wasn't describing an act of nature like we do, thinking, albeit not intentionally, that God isn't active in the rising of the sun or in the falling of rain. He is saying His Father is active and present in those things, and is doing something.

So the statement isn't about the sun or the rain, it's about God.

So where Christ said God is moving the sun, He really meant God is turning the earth. Is that what you're saying?
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Christ was still going to speak in the terminology of the day/known science of the day. Why do you think he used parables?
 
AverageJoe said:
Christ was still going to speak in the terminology of the day/known science of the day. Why do you think he used parables?
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He told us why He spoke in parables: to hide his teaching from the non-elect so they would remain unconverted. Haven't you read?
 
AverageJoe said:
It would work whether the sun stopped or the Earth stopped. Either way, something happened.
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So you don't really agree with Huk, that it was an eclipse. What about stopping the moon? Did they just happen to get that one right?
 
Ekklesian said:
Yet in Christ's statement, God is the active agent. He is telling us about a work of His Father.
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He's not explaining it to the Father in terms consistent with the Father's experience. He's explaining it to men in terms consistent with men's experience.

Which is easier to say, God makes His world to turn, or makes His sun to rise?
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It's not a matter of it being "easier to say."
 
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