But we know that the earth is NOT fixed and it DOES move.
2006-07-07 05:27:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The catholic church used this verse to persecute Galileo \& Copernicus.
2006-07-07 06:14:48 · update #1
The earth moves in an ellipse around the sun, not in a circle.
2006-07-07 06:15:49 · update #2
The verse simply suggests that the Earth is stable, and cannot be moved, but is it trying to say that the Earth is totally motionless in every sense? As the passage is primarily concerned with God’s majesty and power, it is more likely that the psalmist is saying, “Who but God could move the Earth?” Besides, the Earth is set in an unchanging orbit around the Sun, all the while rotating at a steady speed on a fixed axis.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2178
And also
"These passages declare that the world is not to be moved, from which Bouw concludes that the world does not move.
This is fallacious. The Hebrew word for ‘moved’ (mowt) is in the niphal stem, which often refers to the passive voice, as indeed it does here. This is reflected in the English translations—to be moved or not to be moved suggests the action of an external or causative agent to bring about change in position, but does not exclude the possibility of motion apart from an external agent."
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i2/geocentrism.asp
2006-07-07 05:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just made it up, read the bible its not in there.
There is a place in Job that says something about it is made so that it will not totter. In other words fall.
It does say that God sits above the circle of the earth
At a time in history when people disputed that because they believe the earth was flat.
2006-07-07 05:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Psalm 119:90
2006-07-07 05:40:56 · answer #3 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is fixed in Orbit, keep in mind the writer did not know this so it is absolutely true from his point of view. More importantly these are actual SONGS of praise and we often fudge in songs to make things flow correctly.
2006-07-07 05:35:38 · answer #4 · answered by derajer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Bible doesn't say that! I think you need to study some in God's Word.
A passage in Psalms mentions the world being fixed but it is altogether a different meaning from the way you stated it.
2006-07-07 05:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by racam_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth is fixed in an orbit around the sun, and I don't think we'll ever be able to move it.
2006-07-07 05:32:17 · answer #6 · answered by C_Bass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It meant that the earth doesn't fly off its orbit and float around the solar system.
2006-07-07 05:32:24 · answer #7 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.
2006-07-07 05:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by kreevich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The world also is stablished that it cannot be moved." Psalm 93:1
2006-07-07 05:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe its in psalms but not sure where
2006-07-07 05:31:45 · answer #10 · answered by ClaraPacifico 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋