So basically Joshua told the sun to stop, but people can't stop the sun, its always in the middle. The bible is saying that we live in a geocentric universe but we live in a heliocentric one. What do Christians think of this? Sorry for grammar and stuff but I'm in a rush :O. I don't mean to insult anyone by the way.
2006-11-27 14:44:49 · 9 answers · asked by le 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
but the sun is always in the middle u cant stop the sun from rotating but u can with earth right?
2006-11-27 14:53:03 · update #1
I think he needs to quit asking the sun to stand still while I'm in staff meetings at work. Those things go on FOREVER and I swear somebody out there must be doing this...
2006-11-27 14:47:05 · answer #1 · answered by Dave 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is two issues:
1. Did the sun stop or the day change?
2. Does this 'teach' a geocentric universe?
1.) I dunno.
2.) No. Every time you day the sun rises or the sun sets, are you teaching geocentrism, or just saying what it looks like?
It FEELS like we are the center of the universe, we talk like it every day. The Bible was authored by people, whether it was 'inspired' or not, and the people used the vernacular of the time to communicate a message to the everyday person.
2006-11-27 22:57:31 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the bible ever refers to a geocentric universe. I believe you are reffering to a proclimation by the Church because of an incorrect deduction of reasoning. We are only slightly lesser than angels so it would be reasonable to assume that God made the Earth be the center of the universe simply because of our importants.
Science of course tells us otherwise. However we are in a very favored possition in the universe in that it is one of the very few habitable places. We have yet to discover any others.
As far as Joshua goes, the God who created the universe could easily stop the earth from rotating making it appear that the Sun had stopped.
2006-11-27 22:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by Josh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all belongs to God, He created it and He can control it. What seems logical to some is foolishness to God.
The people thought that Noah was off his rocker for preaching the great flood and building an arch. In those days it didn't rain, they didn't even know what rain was, but guess what, it rained and man did it rain. The waters covered the earth and changed it forever. Lots of proof that a flood did happen! Some think that it was an ice age, and when rain gets cold enough it turns to ice so maybe there is something to it.
Jesus healed cripples, even those who didn't like Jesus acknowledged what He did. He gave sight to the blind, explain that! He rose from the dead and there were over 500 witnesses to that fact.
You can't explain everything away, but you can try. I have no idea why you try, but you can try and you will try.
2006-11-27 23:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some scientists think Joshua's long day was one of the 4 occurances of the Earth's reverse orbit (Joshua's long day, Xueshun, Hezekiah's sign, Gengshen). All four historical instances seemed to coincide with lunar eclipses and the sun shifting on its axis. In two of the instances, there are ancient recordings of terrifying meteor storms.
Below I have cited a couple of the reports of zodiac shifts.
Hope that helps.
2006-11-27 22:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by Big Blair 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think to the people of that day the sun stood still.
3000 years from now people may read our accounts of some event and think we were inaccurate in our account because they may have a much better understanding of things.
I have heard that when mathmaticians try to date things back(however they do that sort of thing) that there is a period of time that is unaccounted for
2006-11-27 22:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by songndance1999 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joshua didn't stop the sun, God did it. He created the universe and He can do what He wants, and you wern't there to prove He didn't. So I will just take God's Word on it.
2006-11-27 22:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stuff on bumper stickers: "God said it, I believe it, That settles it!", is a bunch of crap. It doesn't matter what I believe in or think about...it still happened, and it doesn't need my ruminations!
2006-11-27 22:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a solar eclipse, people then did not understand these things.
2006-11-27 22:56:35 · answer #9 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋