It wasn't.Do you think Paul had a correct understanding of Genesis, if his cosmology was like that pictured in the post above?
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It wasn't.Do you think Paul had a correct understanding of Genesis, if his cosmology was like that pictured in the post above?
What makes you think I do? I don't.Do you think Paul subscribed to a heliocentric model as you do?
You realize that an unbounded universe (no edge or center) is only an assumption.I don't believe the universe has a center. Or every point in space is the center.
The problem lies with the inability of most people to comprehend exactly what the creation of the universe entailed.
The "big bang" (or "Let there be light") was not the explosion of matter into an empty universe, but the creation and expansion of the universe (space/time/matter-energy) itself. And as every point in the universe is expanding away from every other point there can be no center.
I would agree with the cross being central in that it was the means through which Jesus's obedience unto death, was carried out. In other words what I truly believe, is central, was even though Jesus was Son, he learned, the obedience and was obedient unto death. Even death of the cross.I'm saying—well, the Scriptures, actually—that the Cross is central to His identity. It's the very foundation of it. The name given Him that is above all names in Heaven and in earth and under the earth, is because of the work He accomplished here, on the cross, for the sinners here. The angels in Heaven confess that name. It is the ultimate reality, not merely one possible reality.
What if pigs could whistle? What if dogs could fly? What if up were down? What if red was yellow? What if? As we don't know, and have no way of knowing, the question is moot.What if Paul's cosmology were geocentric?
Only insofar as the Earth is the focus of God's dealing with mankind. There is no hint of any astronomical centricity in the bible.We know that the Scriptures are written in geocentric terms.
And is the stage on which Christ merited his name above all names in Heaven.Only insofar as the Earth is the focus of God's dealing with mankind.
The firmament is in the midst of the waters, and it divides the waters that are above the firmament from the waters which are below it, and the waters below it are on earth, and those waters became seas on earth.There is no hint of any astronomical centricity in the bible.
What if pigs could whistle? What if dogs could fly? What if up were down? What if red was yellow? What if? As we don't know, and have no way of knowing, the question is moot.
So, your answer is that Christ, understaning the reality of the motion of the earth, spoke in relative terms, and you know that because of science.