Please quote the Bible verse(s)?

Question

that state that the sun rotates around the earth...


please no other editorializing... just the Bible verses. (or the book and verses would be fine)... i am not trying to make a point either way, was legitimately wondering where this is written/alluded to.

thanks!

Answer 1

Ecclesiastes 1:4 and 5: One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

Psalms 19:6, "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."

Psalms 93:1, "The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved."

Psalms 92: "He has made the world firm, not to be moved."


Psalms 103: "You fixed the earth upon its foundation, not to be moved forever."

Joshua 10:12: "Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon."

Isaiah 40:22, "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:"

Answer 2

I'm sure the verses will appear above this, I'm not going to duplicate effort and look them up. I just want to add that the Bible never explicitly says that it does, but scripture was used by the Church to accuse Copernicus of heresy, so it can be interpreted that way.
What is interesting to me is what the Bible doesn't say. A book written by people communicating with an omniscient being could have contained fantastic knowledge like heliocentricism, the atomic nature of matter, or the causes of disease with specifics. It contains nothing that ignorant bronze age men couldn't have written on their own.

I editorialized. Sue me :)

Answer 3

Gen 1:14-16 for the sun and the moon
Jud 5:20 for the stars having a course.
Job 26:7 for the earth being suspended
Job 28:25 for the wind having weight

There is so much more.....

Answer 4

Genesis 1:14-18, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky...God madethe two great lights -- the greater light to rule the day [the sun]...God set the them [sun and moon] in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness." Although it doesn't say revolve (which is what you mean, the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun), it implies that the sun and moon are in the "dome" around the earth and that their existence is to seperate night and day.

It also mentions that both Moses and Joshua caused the sun to stand still in the sky (though I don't know the verses offhand). If the earth stood still in its orbit, it would fall into the sun.

Answer 5

There is no verse in the bible which says exactly that.

Isaiah 40:22 talks about the earth being a circle or round.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

Job 9:7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

that alone implies that the sun move around the earth by rising and what not.


Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

Answer 7

Ps. 93:1, Ps. 19:1-6, Joshua 10:12-14

Quote them yourself.

Answer 8

--THERE IS no scripture to that false premise!
--ANY REFERENCE to the sun, earth, moon are always in line with true science:

(Genesis 1:14-19) “. . .“Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. 15 And they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth.” And it came to be so. 16 And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. 17 Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth, 18 and to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between the light and the darkness. Then God saw that [it was] good. 19 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day.”
**(Ecclesiastes 1:5-7) “. . .And the sun also has flashed forth, and the sun has set, and it is coming panting to its place where it is going to flash forth. 6 The wind is going to the south, and it is circling around to the north. Round and round it is continually circling, and right back to its circlings the wind is returning. 7 All the winter torrents are going forth to the sea, yet the sea itself is not full. To the place where the winter torrents are going forth, there they are returning so as to go forth.”

(Job 38:31-33) “. . .Can you tie fast the bonds of the Ki′mah constellation, Or can you loosen the very cords of the Ke′sil constellation? 32 Can you bring forth the Maz′za·roth constellation in its appointed time? And as for the Ash constellation alongside its sons, can you conduct them? 33 Have you come to know the statutes of the heavens, Or could you put its authority in the earth?”

--SO WITH all mention of celestial bodies, would we not think that the Bible would make a statement as to the movement of the sun around the earth IF IT WERE TRUE?
--WHAT THE Bible does not speak on tells us as much as what it does teach.
--SO THEN because of no mention of the idea that the sun revolving around the earth is mentioned , then it is not any type of truth to be taught!

--UPDATE-- any reference to the earth abiding forever , or it being in unmovable position--stable is to the effect of God keeping it from ever being destroyed or rocked off its orbit of the sun or any other destructive force, please note:
(Isaiah 45:18) “. . .For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who FIRMLY(my caps) established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.”
--SO THEN THE sureness of its establishment is in reference to it be maintained as mans home forever!

Answer 9

If the has anything to do with Galileo, there's an interesting article at this link:
http://www.catholic.com/library/galileo_controversy.asp

Answer 10

The bible doesn't state it. Galileo Galilei proposed this concept and was shunned by the church.