Burn Galileo!
We have received word that the Italian stargazer, Galileo Galilei, ever so proud of his new “telescope,” is endorsing the heretical views of Copernicus.
He’s claiming, in constrast to the clear view of scripture, that the earth moves around the sun. This heliocentric heresy is a flat denial of all we believe about the reliability, authority, and inerrancy of the Word of God.
Take, e.g., this story from Joshua 10:
“On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: ‘Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’ So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies.”
Could this be any clearer? The sun was stopped, not the earth. Scripture could not refute this heresy any more plainly.
We must urgently resist and reject and punish Galileo and heliocentrism! It comes down to whether we choose to believe the wild theories of science or the assured convictions of scripture.
I think you are practicing to edit a brotherhood paper.
I think he (and Rubel) already did that!
Actually, as I reflect on it, there is this other possibility: perhaps science and scripture are both right and we’ve just been misreading scripture. Just thought of that.
Hold off on the conflagration!
This is like that spaghetti post, isn’t it? It isn’t about Galileo … it’s about what? Spaghetti? Hermeneutics? Evolution? Ha!
But Mike…the Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it!
Fear does strange things to us.
Hold off on conflagration, you insist? And, just about the time I was about to conflagrate!
Point taken. Reminds me of my Biologos friends. God reveals himself through his Word and his Works. http://biologos.org/
That damn Galileo, always stirring up trouble.
Thanks for this lesson in hermeneutics! I knew there was a reason Pepperdine wanted you to lead the lectures.