Joshua 10:12-13;
“… Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
… So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down
about a whole day.” (KJV)
If you’re a heliocentrist
“believer”, Joshua 10:12-13 presents a host of problems:
1. Can God make a square circle? No! Can God stop something that’s stopped? No; it’s
illogical. So if a “NON-MOVING” SUN
stops, the only “logical” explanation for the heliocentrist is, that God figuratively stopped the sun, by literally stopping the earth; an interpretation that requires, not
believing and ignoring all of the Bible passages telling us that it is the sun
that moves and not the earth!
2. Stopping the earth’s rotation would indeed
make the sun, almost, appear to stop in the sky, (more on that in a minute), but, would
do nothing to make the moon stop. To make the moon stop, God would have
to physically stop the moon in its orbit.
And so a truthful writing of this scripture would read something like
this: God stopped the EARTH
and the moon; or, God made the sun APPEAR to stop, but the moon, He
actually physically stopped.
3. In order to rationalize and explain-away the
stopping of the sun, the heliocentrist needs 2 different interpretations in the same verse; in the same sentence! They are forced to interpret the stopping of the
sun figuratively, and at the same time, interpret the stopping of the moon literally; (Is that even
allowed in scriptural interpretation?)
And God couldn’t say He stopped the earth; it’s already stopped.
4. Also, to make the sun, completely “appear”
to stop, God would have also had to stop the earth’s revolution, (orbit). You see, just stopping the earth’s rotation
would not completely stop the sun from “moving”; because the earth is supposedly
orbiting the sun at 67,000 MPH. So
during the 24 hours that God "stopped the earth's rotation", the earth would have traveled 1,608,000
miles, equivalent to ONE DEGREE OF MOVEMENT in the sky, backwards; to the
east. So you see, to only stop the
earth’s rotation would not have completely stopped the sun; you’d have to also
stop the earth’s orbit around the sun to make the sun stand still. Also, if the sun moved back ONE degree,
wouldn’t it have been mentioned?
5. We should feel differences here on earth
during our orbit around the sun. For
instance at perihiion, (closest to the sun), the earth would be moving faster
than at Aphelion, (farthest from the sun).
I would think you’d feel the inertial effects on our bodies; created by
this elliptical orbit.
6.
Finally, you’d have to question
the trust worthiness of scripture.
God said He stopped the sun; when He really stopped the earth. So you are left with one of two
possibilities: either Joshua 10:12-13 is scientifically incorrect, and
therefore NOT “inspired”, or, God told a “white lie”; either way, the Bible’s
credibility is severely in question. It’s
Just like when people say that Jesus was a good teacher, but not God. But Jesus claimed to be God. So, He was either crazy, or, a liar, or, He
is, who He said He is. So, if you don’t
believe He’s God, don’t call a “crazy liar”, a good teacher. Same goes for Joshua, (and other passages
that refer to a moving sun), either the Bible is not inspired, or, God’s a
liar, or, God stopped the sun, therefore the sun moves, just like the Bible
says.
GOD CAN NOT LIE, REMEMBER???
By
just taking God at His word, here’s how easy it is for a Bible believing
geocentrist to explain Joshua 10:12-13:
God stopped
the sun and the moon (period).
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