GRAMMATICALLY
AND SEMANTICALLY THE BIBLE DENIES COPERNICANISM
(AND
THUS DENIES THE "THEISTIC COPERNICAN" POSITION AS WELL...)
http://www.fixedearth.com/gram-semant.html
"And God set them
[sun, moon, and stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth...." (Gen. 1:17)
Notice: God SET
them.... Now, inside our so-called "solar" system, we have
only the sun and the moon (from the verse above). We KNOW the moon
moves. Therefore, when God SET IT "in the firmament", the
inescapable meaning is that He set it in motion on the track it
follows. Thus, when He set THEM in the firmament it is a grammatical
imperative that He set the sun and stars in motion ALSO on their
tracks just like He set the moon in motion on its track.
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"Then spake
Joshua.... Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon, in the
valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.... So the
sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down
about a whole day." (Joshua 10:12,13)
Let's focus on the
"MOON" in these verses:
Both Heliocentrists and
Geocentrists agree that the moon is moving around the earth. No
argument on that. Then we see that the Scripture says that Joshua
commanded not only the sun but ALSO THE MOON to stop, and that both
obeyed the command. He commanded both of them at the same time in the
same breath in the same sentence to stop their motion. He obviously
accepted as fact that the moon he was speaking to was a moon that was
moving. Since, therefore, he addressed both sun and moon together in
his command, it is a grammatical imperative that when he commanded a
moving moon to stand still, he was ALSO commanding a moving sun to
stand still.
(A similar argument can
be made for the movement of the stars from Psalm 8:3 where "...the
moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained..." is written.
"Ordained"--number 3559 is derived from the Hebrew #5087
which means "to place". The moon that was placed moves;
so, grammatically, would the stars.)
(Are you revisionist
creationist leaders SURE you want to insist that Joshua was telling
the earth and not the sun to stand still...and that the Holy Spirit
of Truth caused the opposite of the Truth to be recorded in God's
Word?? What happened to "God is not the author of
confusion...."?!) [I Cor.14:33]
And what about:
"Behold, I will
bring again the shadow of the degrees ...ten degrees backward. So
THE SUN RETURNED ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down...."
(Isaiah 38:8)
If something is moved
"backward" it must ipso facto have had a forward direction
and movement. The shadow moved backward on the sun dial...undeniably
the opposite of the way it always moved. The movement of the shadow
is inseparable from the movement of the sun in this verse for it says
the sun returned. In short, the sun's movement, not the earth's, is
flatly declared here (as well as in numerous other Scriptures). [See:
What If, Sixty-seven References]
One may argue that God
really meant that the earth and not the sun is moving in all these
Scriptures, that He just used a "language of appearance" or
"phenomenological language", or some such polysyllabic
excuse for accepting what "science falsely so-called" says
over what the Word of God says. Unfortunately, this hermeneutical
slight-of-hand can and does make the Creation days billions of years
long [See: Kabbala 2 (p.2)], the Noahic Flood just a local flood,
the virgin Mary just "a young girl", "heaven" a
superstitious myth, and on and on. Moreover, this method of handling
Scripture actually says that God has lied to us or is so inept with
words that He couldn't communicate a simple Truth about whether it is
the earth that goes around the sun or the sun that goes around the
earth.
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Semantics too can be
unyielding on this subject. Let's take a hard look at the pronoun
THOU in Joshua 10:12: "Sun, stand THOU still...."
Strong's Hebrew
Concordance #859 confirms what we would expect, namely: "THOU"
means "YOU".
So, semantically, what
Joshua said was: "Sun, YOU stand still...and moon, YOU stand
still too. Sun, YOU stop over Gibeon and moon, YOU stop over Ajalon."
Since Ajalon is only
five or 32 miles away from Gibeon, the sun and the moon are,
cosmographically speaking, in the same place, i.e., "in the
midst of heaven".
Being in the same
place, the moon is blocking out the sun. Joshua's commands therefore,
are ordering both orbs which are at the point of full solar eclipse
to move no further.
Eclipses were known and
not feared in those days, but--when in response to Joshua's commands
which all heard (v.12)--a moving moon stopped and stayed in front of
a moving sun which suddenly stood still "and hasted not to go
down about a whole day", that was another matter! Joshua's
enemies were understandably freaked out of their gourds (in the
recent vernacular) and Joshua's soldiers "avenged
themselves...."
Clearly, the
designation "YOU" applied by God to a moving sun cannot be
and must not be twisted to say: "YOU, Earth, stand still"
or "YOU, Time, stand still." One may want it to say one of
those, but the Bible simply does not say either one. (Bible scholars,
of course, agreed on the plain language until Newton's Kabbalist
"math" persuaded most of them that man's science had
triumphed over Bible science and that they needed to adjust their
interpretation of Scripture accordingly).
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Now, six-day
Creationists are, of course, well aware of the stultifying effect
that Theistic Evolutionists have on the Creationist movement.
Compromise with God's Truth is harder to combat than out-and-out
resistance, most would agree.
A classic expression of
this fact was saved for the very last frames of Hollywood's first
version of Inherit The Wind (about the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
in Dayton, Tennessee in July of 1925). After incessant and thinly
disguised mockery of Bryan and Bible fundamentalism in general
throughout the movie, Darrow (played by Spencer Tracy), alone in the
courtroom in the final scene, picks up a copy of the Bible in one
hand and a copy of Darwin in the other. He looks slowly back and
forth at each book for a minute, thoughtfully weighing this one, then
the other one. Then, smiling broadly as if in response to a
revelation, he slaps Darwin and the Bible together, gives them a long
look and an affirmative head shake, tucks them under his arm and
walks out. Though not a word is spoken, his confident, satisfied
amalgamation of the two made the point: Put Darwin and the Bible
together!
And well could
Hollywood revel in that silent visual message...considering the
acceptance of evolutionism in the world and (more to the point) in
the Christian Churches since the Scopes Trial in 1925! That movie and
that scene were merely a dramatization of the ability of the Theistic
Evolutionist concept to bring discredit and scorn upon the Bible as
the source of Absolute Truth, while at the same time elevating
"science" to the role of Truth Giver, from thenceforward
equal or superior to the Bible and able to make It bow when the two
conflict!
Fellow Creationist, I
submit to you that the same scene can be replayed substituting
Newton's Principia for Darwin's Origin of Species. Together with
Copernicus' and Kepler's and Galileo's earlier efforts (and
Einstein's "relativity" and Sagan's "exobiology"
later), man's books denying the plain geocentrism of Scripture
were--as in the Scopes Trial [See: Monkey Trial]--put together with
the Bible and "Theistic Copernicanism" was born! All that
had to be changed was where the Bible says the sun moves. Thereafter,
we were all to understand that It really means the earth moves when
It says the sun moves. As with evolution, just change the six-days of
Creation to millions of years....Here, just change "sun" to
"earth". Quite simple really. [See: Changing a Biblical
Word]
After sun and earth
were switched by those trying to accommodate both Bible and what they
thought was "science", the Churches gave in everywhere,
just as most have given in to evolutionism since Darwin, and
particularly since the Scopes Trial.
The Christian
Compromise with Copernicanism established the one and only criterion
needed for the success of Satan's evolution myth in the world first,
then the churches. The criterion? Again, quite simple. Plain
Scripture can and must be reworked to match the claims of "science
falsely so-called".
As a six-day "evening
and morning" Creationist, I, as one of you, submit that there is
a way to undermine the idolatrous non-secular science establishment
upon which rests the evolution myth you detest. If you are interested
in restoring and certifying Bible credibility, prayerfully consider:
a) Getting informed about the weakness and vulnerability of the
heliocentric model, and: b) Boldly attack that Bible-bashing model
and watch the attack spread to evolutionism (and all that is built
upon both of those myths)!; c) New evidence proving Copernicanism is
the keystone of the Big Bang Paradigm [See: Keystone] and that this
evolutionary model of the universe is derived from the Kabbala and
thus cannot be financed in the USA under the Constitution can be seen
[See: HB 179 Model Pt1, HB 179 Evidence Pt2, HB 179 Addendum Pt3].
If Creationists will
stand up for God's Word on geocentrism and refuse all compromise,
they will see that their fears of embarrassment, etc., are not from
God (II Tim.1:7). Sir Fred Hoyle and other prominent astronomers and
physicists have admitted that the geocentric model is just as good
scientifically as the heliocentric model [See: Quotes - Contemporary
Scientists]--and it is certainly a whole lot better Scripturally!
Indeed, a far more Biblical and scientific model which shrinks the
whole universe to less than one light day's thickness and exposes all
of modern cosmology as a pseudo-scientific sham can be seen in a
seven part series beginning.... [See: Size-Structure Pt 1]
In short, the world has
been systematically indoctrinated to believe that the Bible-bashing
earth-moving Copernican model is a scientific fact beyond challenge.
The truth of the matter as any can confirm for themselves is that not
only the Copernican Model--but the entirety of modern cosmology--is a
massive deception and totally vulnerable to exposure as such. Some
links that will lead to confirmation of that statement can be tested
in the "Kabbala" and "Size and Structure" series
[See: Kabbala 1, Size-Structure Pt 1].
After a person finds
out that evolutionism is a contra-scientific and utterly goofy
explanation for the ineffable complexity of design and function of
the entire plant and animal and human life forms, Theistic
Evolutionism becomes a cheap copout position that is a lukewarm
abomination to God (Rev.3:15,16). Creationists know this is true.
Likewise--after
prayerful consideration of the Scriptures and the scientific and
logical evidence supporting a non-moving earth--it should be obvious
to all Truth-seeking Bible believers that the Theistic Copernicanism
Compromise can fare no better in God's sight than the Theistic
Evolution Compromise. Both compromises stink! God's Absolute Truths
cannot be compromised! Period. HE will have no other gods--false
science or otherwise--changing His Word and usurping His Glory!
That's the way it is. You can count on it.
Therefore, it is time
for Bible Creationists to either broaden their attack to include
Copernicanism--and do so with a whoop!--or recant on their belief in
Bible inerrancy on the six-day creation. A non-moving, geocentric
earth is taught in the Bible just as plainly as the six-day creation
[See: Sixty-seven References]). Indeed, as noted, the creation
account makes it clear that there was no sun to go around until the
fourth day, yet there was light and darkness, evening and morning
[See: Genesis I 1-5]!
Let no Christian be
counted amongst the various kinds of Sun Worshippers that dot the
historical record! "Solar System", my foot! God created an
"Earth System" not a "Sun System"! Copernicanism
makes the Sun the center, the source of life. God makes the Earth the
center, the springboard of His Master Plan for eternal life. This
"unmovable" (Ps.93:1) Earth is the place where His only
begotten Son would obediently carry out that Plan. It is the place
where "the New Earth" (Is.65:17; 66:22; Rev.21:1) will
exist forever right here at the center of the universe after this old
earth has "been burned with fervent heat and dissolved" and
has "fled away" never to be found again (Is. 65:17; II Pet.
3:10, 12; Rev.20:11).
Time is up for the
churches on this one [See: House of God]. By allowing the takeover
of the Physical Sciences thru their surrender to Bible-bashing
Copernicanism, the churches opened the door to the takeover of the
rest of man's "knowledge" by deceptions disguised as
"science" [See: Knowledge Impact]. Now that this takeover
extends thru the Natural Sciences, the Social and Behavioral
Sciences, the Arts, Mathematics, and Religion, it is time for God's
Judgment on the churches (I Pet.4:17, 18). Jesus "was manifested
to destroy the works of the Devil" (I John 3:8). These
mega-deceptions are "the works of the Devil". Truly, "the
Devil's time is short"! (Rev.12:12) "Come out of her
[Babylon/confusion], my people..." God says (Rev.18:4). The
"Church" is in Babylon/confusion up to its steeple tops!
Creation is the
cornerstone of Bible credibility. (You can put that in italics and
capitalize it: CREATION IS THE CORNERSTONE OF BIBLE CREDIBILITY.) OK?
A non- moving earth and a six-day creation have been tampered with
and credibility has all but been destroyed as a result. God's
Judgment begins with the restoration of those foundational Truths of
Genesis One in His churches FIRST. (Rev.14:6,7: I Pet.4:17,18)
The call for God's
people "to come out of Babylon (i.e., "confusion":Rev.18:4)
begins with exposing the taproot of all modern Bible-bashing. That
taproot is the Copernican lie.
None of us is stranger
to deception. It's everywhere. The only way out of deception is "to
continue in God's Word". Don't change it to fit clever
deceptions. "Continue" in It.
That done, God
promises: "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you
free (of Satan's lies)." (John 8:31,32,44)
