Since the Garden of Eden, humans have been on a quest to throw off God’s rule and escape the limitations of his Word.
Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Psalm 2:1–4 (NKJV)
Jesus said that the world system hates him and his Word.
People of the world, those who are not part of God’s redeemed family, hate God and truth. The world is defined as the system dominating those who have not professed allegiance to Jesus, the only legitimate heir to God’s throne. The world is dominated by Satan, the prince of the power of the air.
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12:9 (NASB95)
Those in the world system prefer lies over truth, Satan over God, and darkness over light.
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. John 3:19–20 (NASB95)
Jesus addressed the religious leaders of Israel, who thought they were spiritually minded, but were actually part of the world system.
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. 44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. John 8:43–45 (NASB95)
I derive the following principles from our Lord’s words in order to arrive at the stated conclusion.
- Those in the world system instinctively hate the truth and spurn God’s Word.
- Those in the world system cannot even understand truth when they hear it.
- Those in the world system are drawn toward satanic lies.
Therefore: whatever those in the world system highly esteem is at least suspect of being anti-God and derived from a satanic lie.
In support of this conclusion, Jesus said:
...“You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God. Luke 16:15 (NASB95)
Some of you already know that some months ago I became convinced that the heliocentric model, which includes a spherical earth, is a lie that contradicts the Word of God. I have written about this in detail in previous articles in my series on Biblical Cosmology. In this article, I will not attempt to present again what I already covered elsewhere. Instead, I would like for us to consider the following statement.
Since the world system highly esteems the heliocentric model, which opposes the Bible’s teaching in Genesis Chapter One and elsewhere, we who love God’s Word should regard it with suspicion.
I just read an interesting book entitled Isaac Newton, The Last Sorcerer by Michael White. The title intrigued me because I already knew that Newton was a secret alchemist in the vein of Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian sun worshiper. (I covered this in detail in a previous article on the occult origins of the heliocentric model.) White is very much pro-Newton and a believer in the magnitude and importance of his discoveries. I learned some interesting things about Newton in the book that he tried to keep secret during his lifetime. One was his devotion to alchemy, which at that time was connected to the occult. Like other alchemists, he pursued what was called the “philosopher’s stone,” which supposedly could be used to transmute any inferior metal into gold. His work in physics included the pursuit of a unifying theory that could bring sense to the whole.
Another thing I learned was that Newton was an Arian and denied the divinity of Christ; although, like his alchemy, he kept that secret, since it would have likely disqualified him from holding the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge. He also believed that the ancients understood far more about the truth of the “universe” than those of his day. He thought that God chose and helped him to rediscover long hidden secrets. Not surprisingly, he was far more interested in the pagan mathematician Pythagorus’ ideas than in the Bible’s teachings. He did not consult the ancient wisdom of the Hebrews for insight. Which is not surprising in light of the thesis of this article.
Man wants to escape the confines of God’s Word and figure out things on his own.
White pointed out that at the time Newton published his most famous work, The Principia…
…very few people realized the revolutionary nature of the book, in much the same way that neither Darwin’s The Origin of the Species nor Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity were fully understood when they first appeared. (p.223)
He went on to write:
By taking physics beyond the arena of ecclesiastical and philosophical debate, Newton unintentionally created a new intellectual realm. It did not gain the name “science” for another century and a half. (p.224)
Each of these highly acclaimed men led the world to put faith in conclusions that contradict the Bible, and each contributed to the rise of science as a new religion that must be believed over any “outdated” and “ignorant” religious claims.
Einstein developed his theories to nullify the empirical findings of the Michelson-Morley experiment which proved that the earth is at rest. Einstein claimed that we “know” that the earth is in motion; therefore, the Michelson-Morley experiment had to be explained away using theoretical math. Mark Twain remarked once that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. I believe we can add theoretical math to the statement.
Nicolai Tesla, probably the most brilliant empirical scientist of his day, said that Einstein’s theories were hogwash, as did many other German scientists.
Most conservative Christians I know readily understand that Darwin’s theory of evolution is a satanic lie designed to reduce humanity to an accident of nature and to eliminate the need for the Creator. Far fewer, however, are prepared to question Einstein’s theories, which purportedly proved that it is impossible for us to measure the earth’s motion, or lack thereof, since every object’s motion is relative to everything else.
Einstein’s theories came at a most convenient time for heliocentrists. At that time there was still quite a debate regarding the design of the earth, but Einstein effectively quashed all argument, at least from the point of view of experimental physics, by “proving” that it was pointless to experiment further. Most people do not realize that children were taught that the earth is flat in public school in the early 20th century.
Now that several generations of school children have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the heliocentric model from the cradle onward, it is difficult for them to overcome what they have been sold. Scarily, the same thing is now being done in our schools regarding LGBTQ+ and transgenderism. Human beings tend to believe what trusted adults tell them; so, we had better tell them the truth, or we will answer to God.
Most of my readers will probably agree that Darwin led us into anti-biblical error; so, why should we not suspect that Einstein and Newton fall into the same category?
Darwin led people away from faith in a Creator. Einstein convinced people to back off from trying to prove the earth is motionless, and Newton gave the occult pagan belief in heliocentrism a “scientific” explanation of how things work via his theory of universal gravitation.
Newton and most of his contemporaries believed that if one can use math to describe and predict observable phenomena, and the observation aligns with the prediction, then the theory behind the math must be true. Einstein reversed this by using math to disprove observable phenomena, but that is an entirely different level of deception.
The unseen problem with such thinking is that if the observable phenomena has been misinterpreted at the beginning of the process, then the math only confirms the error.
The Bible teaches that God created the sun, moon, and stars and placed them in the firmament. (Genesis 1:14-18) There is no mention of any so-called planets. In fact, that word comes from an adjective modifying stars – planetes in Greek, which means “wandering.” What we call planets are actually stars that appear to have wandered from their assigned stationary place in the firmament. (Jude 1:6, 13-14)
Copernicus and others theorized that the Bible’s description of the heavens was faulty and did not adequately explain the apparent retrograde motion of the “planets,” which was problematic because philosophers preferred circles and “simple” explanations. To correct what the Bible says, he proposed that the sun is the center, not the earth. In so doing, he apparently solved the retrograde motion “problem” of the “planets,” but what if their retrograde paths are their actual motion, as might happen in a firmament with the dynamics of a toroidal field? There have been many times that “science” has ventured down “dead end” paths because of faulty presuppositions and conclusions. Everything after Copernicus, including Newton’s theories, was built on top of the heliocentric model. But if the foundation is faulty, the entire building will be “out of plumb” with the truth. We still do not understand everything about the world God created; so, shouldn’t we be careful about disposing of what the Bible teaches, just because it does not line up with currently accepted theoretical “science”?
The world rejoices when “science” apparently disproves the Bible because humanity is still on a quest to escape the limitations imposed on us by God’s Word.
We want to figure out things without depending on what God says, which is exactly what Adam and Eve did.
Those in the world system tend to dismiss, belittle, or otherwise intimidate anyone who dares to contest their anti-god and anti-biblical assertions. They tell us that we are ignorant and holding back progress. Whether we believe the earth is a stationary plane enclosed in a solid firmament or if we fully embrace the heliocentric model and an ever-expanding universe, we should make sure that what we put our faith in agrees with the Bible. We should be steadfast and immovable in our allegiance to God and his Word, no matter what the push back or how foolish we may appear to others.
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26 (NKJV)
