Remember when Copernicus proved all of Christianity wrong by proving the sun is the solar system's center?

Question

That was cool, huh. Even though popes say they can't be wrong, they are incorrect. This is only one example. Do you understand, or do you really think everything orbits Earth?

Answer 1

I think he just proved other scientists wrong, everyone else was just going by what the scientists told them.

Answer 2

I've never read in the Bible where it says that the Earth is in the center of the universe, so I'm not exactly sure what they're talking about. And just because some pope says so, I wouldn't believe it, unless it was in the Bible, because the pope could be mistaken at any time. He's only human after all. The Bible is the inspired word of the living God; or at least I believe that. Anyway, just because the Earth isn't the center of the solar system doesn't prove that it's not the center of the universe. It is possible that the universe orbits the Earth. We wouldn't know because the universe is too large to really keep track of such a thing. And it's not as if the sun is a stationary star either. It moves in a circle as well. I really don't understand the issue, so I won't say anymore.

Edit: Hey huffyb, Job 26:7 says that God "hangeth the earth upon nothing." I'm not sure what that passage means in I Samuel but in context, my guess is that he's referring to gov't and authorities. They anchor the world so that there isn't chaos, kind of like a pillar anchors a building so that it doesn't fall.

Answer 3

That's a fraudulent statement; (Remember when Copernicus...) Copernicus never proved all of Christianity wrong or any part of Christianity wrong.Copernicus respected the Roman Church; however, he also knew that the Vatican believed the Earth was at the centre of the solar system, an idea that is not supported by scripture in the Old or New Testament of the Bible. As a result, he worried about offending the church through his theory (that the earth is in motion) which scientifically proved to be correct. Likewise, keep in mind; what the church claims to be true (Pope/Vatican ), and what the Bible claims to be true are not always the same thing. It;s called religious Dogma.

Answer 4

Pardon my fact checking, but your statement seems inconsistent with the Wikipedia article about Copernicus, which states:
- that Copernicus was Catholic
- that Copernicus was never excommunicated for his beliefs. In fact, he given a burial within a Catholic Cathedral;
- that he dedicated his work on the matter, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, to Pope Paul III.

The article further states:
"If Copernicus had any genuine fear of publication, it was the reaction of scientists, not clerics, that worried him. Other churchmen before him — Nicole Oresme (a French bishop) in the fourteenth century and Nicolaus Cusanus (a German cardinal) in the fifteenth — had freely discussed the possible motion of the earth, and there was no reason to suppose that the reappearance of this idea in the sixteenth century would cause a religious stir."

So, do you have any authority showing that the article was wrong? Or, are you just being a goofball?

Answer 5

Dear Huffy and others:

I was not yet born, but I know that Galileo was imprisoned and come close to be burned at the stake.

I've been saying for over 3 years on Yahoo, "Read the Bible in Context" and Huffy gave a great example.

My question for him is this:

Did the Pope back then use 1 Samuel 2:8 as the reason why he nearly killed Galileo? Or is that something you came up with?

See God was not speaking in 1 Sam 2:8

This was part of Hannah's prayer and there's nothing in the Bible that I can see where she is described as a Prophet although her son Samuel was.

For the same reason we should be getting a lot of doctrine out of the book of Ecclesiastes.

I can't remember many things a Pope was ever correct about.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

Why do you think everything needs to orbit the Earth for Christianity to be correct? Would the fact that everything orbits the Earth really prove anything? Does the Bible say "everything orbits the Earth". God may have created man in his image and thus life revolves around us, but this doesn't have to do with geography, nor the planets. Only the simple minded would find this as "proof" of anything, in my opinion.

Answer 7

How did that prove Christianity wrong?

There isn't anywhere in the Bible that says Earth is the center of the solar system. That was never a core belief of Christianity. So, that doesn't prove it wrong in any way.

Answer 8

The question assumes a false premise... Copernicus did not prove all of Christianity wrong. He proved PLATO and Aristotle wrong.

The "Christian" hierarchy was wrong for blindly adopting GREEK ideas because they were "intellectual" or "scientific". The Bible proposes NEITHER a geocentric NOR Sol-centric model. For the most part, the Biblical descriptions are phenomenological -- they describe things for the benefit of the one viewing them. [e.g. Sunrise, Sunset -- BTW do not even the most precise astronomers describe the beauty of the SUNSET to their children? Are they being unscientific?]

Answer 9

Does that matter who is right or wrong when it comes to God's creation? Do you understand or do you really think.

Psalms 50. God summons the heaven above and the earth to the judgment of his people.

Does Christianity have anything to do with science or what the world thinks. This place is not our home we are pligrams here. This is another example Revelations 20. read that please.

Answer 10

Galileo got in trouble with the church because he showed that Jupiter had 4 moons. According to the catholic church, everything orbits the Earth. Galileo and Copernicus books were banned by the church for more than a century. If you were ever caught with them back then you'd be in deep trouble.

Answer 11

Well, he didn't prove anything like that, Christianity wasn't wrong because it was the common belief at that time. And why do people like you not listen in history class? 99.9999999% of all people alive at that time thought that too. JEEEEEZ. Grow up a little.