February 16th

blue sky with clouds

The Three Heavens

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

(2 Corinthians 12:2) NKJV

Deductive reasoning is fun and easy, it’s simple logic most of the time. The Apostle Paul refers to something called the third heaven in which case, logically, there must also be a first and second heaven.

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Stellar Parallax

To Him who made great lights, For His mercy endures forever—The sun to rule by day, For His mercy endures forever; The moon and stars to rule by night, For His mercy endures forever.

(Psalms 136:7-9) NKJV

Stellar parallax is used to “verify” that the Earth is moving but it’s dependent upon the A priori assumption that the Earth is moving. In case you weren’t sure, that’s circular reasoning.

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Relative Motion

The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.

(Ecclesiastes 1:5) Good News Translation

There’s no observable difference between heliocentric and Geocentrospheric models because they’re two frames of reference in the same system. They coexist.

“We know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance.”

— Sir Fred Hoyle in Astronomy and Cosmology, 1975, p. 416.
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