My servant Isaiah has been going around too sexy for YouTube for three years. (Isaiah 20:3) Paraphrased
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
(Revelation 3:15-16) ESV
The sun god Ra, Helios, and all its many forms has transitioned into the modern age of popular science (SciPop) by hitching a ride with Christianity.
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Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
(Matthew 13:52) KJV
“Worlds in Collision” is the title of a book by Immanuel Velikovsky in which he proposes, among other things, that the plagues of the Exodus were caused by successive close approaches to Earth by the planet Venus.
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
(Hebrews 11:1) ESV
When it’s impossible to measure absolute quantities, such as mass of the sun, then you use relative values: how much more massive is the sun than the Earth, for instance.
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Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”
(Acts 22:22) ESV
Relative motion is a difficult concept to teach most people. They’re convinced that the success of space missions and the ability to land a space craft on a comet proves heliocentricity.
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That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other;
(Isaiah 45:6) NKJV
The best illustration of how we can switch back and forth between different frames of reference, such as heliocentric and Geocentrospheric, is an interactive guide to the flight path of the Voyagers.
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The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
(Ecclesiastes 1:5) NKJV
We need to know that some concepts are paradigm-dependent. This means that they only apply after accepting the premise of a paradigm. We’ve been discussing elliptical planetary orbits, that’s a heliocentric concept.
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There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
(1 Corinthians 15:40-41) Good News Translation
Galileo was one of the first to popularize the idea that stars are distant suns. He was trying to explain why he couldn’t measure the stellar parallax that he predicted would be there if heliocentricity was true.
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The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
(Ecclesiastes 1:5) NKJV
In the time we’ve spent arguing on Twitter one of the points of contention is: which is real, epicycles or retrograde motion? Arguments get nowhere because the answer is: both, depending on your frame of reference.
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And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:19) NKJV
Once upon a time we (that’s me and the Holy spirit) did an experiment: we put God to the test. If God is going to supply our every need, we figured, and we need a book on astronomy, then God needs to give us one.
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The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
(Revelation 8:10-11) ESV
“Worlds in Collision” is the title of a book by Immanuel Velikovsky in which he proposes, that some of the Exodus plagues were caused by successive close approaches to Earth by the planet Venus.
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The Naked Prophet 