Astronomy and astrophysics tends to be extremely complicated when it comes to mathematical calculations and physics. This is because we are dealing with so many unknowns and all we know is derived from what we can observe in the heavens from this place called earth. Another reason for the complexity is to obfuscate matters deliberately so that the average person feels as if he or she is not adequate to even think about such things. It is better to leave it to the experts and simply accept their proclamations as the truth. This devilish strategy has worked amazingly well.
God gave us minds and senses through which we can observe and know the world around us. It is only reasonable to conclude that God, if we first accept that he created all this, wants us to trust in the senses and mind he gave us.
But even more importantly, God wants us to trust what he says more than anything or anyone else, even our own mind and senses. That is one of the most important lessons of Genesis. Adam and Eve failed that test, but you and I have an opportunity to pass it.
The Bible makes it clear that God’s Word is always true. Most of the Christians I know, agree with this principle in theory, but when it comes to practice sometimes we betray that we do not always think so. We have come up with ingenious ways to avoid the plain truth of the Bible. Jesus addressed this sinful tendency, when he said:
Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 7 Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’ 8 For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.” 9 Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition. Mark 7:6–9 (NLT)
Jesus warned us that the words of God cannot be “broken,” (John 10:35) meaning that they are inviolable and always true. Jesus should know, since his name is the Word of God, the eternal Logos. (John 1:1 and 1:14) He warned the Jewish leaders on another occasion that they were in error because they did “not understand the Scriptures or the power of God.” (Mark 12:24) We learn from these verses of scripture that we fall into error when we fail to understand and believe what God says in the Bible or when we discount God’s words because we fail to grasp the enormity of his power to accomplish whatever he wishes.
We err when we, for whatever reason, determine that God’s words are not really true after all.
Heliocentrism was advanced most famously by Nicolai Copernicus, who used his powers of reason and deduction to formulate a theory that contradicted what the Bible says and what was generally believed for millennia. He deduced that the sun was the center of the “solar system,” and the earth revolved around it. By what has become known as the Copernican Principle, mankind is now regarded as having minuscule importance in the vastness of a very impersonal and dangerous “universe.”
Genesis Chapter One stands in complete contradiction to heliocentrism.
It declares that the earth the center of things with the sun and moon running a circuit or course over it. The stars are fixed in the dome of the firmament. Man is the focal point of God’s creation and God observes and rules from on high. (Isaiah 40:22) The order of creation in Genesis also makes it impossible for a heliocentric system to have ever come into being. This is why the evolutionary Big Bang theory had to be developed to explain how all we see came to be. It must be either creation or evolution, it seems.
Here is the logical failure of the heliocentric system for all who say they believe God’s Word if true.
- God’s Word is always true.
- The heliocentric system opposes God’s Word.
- Therefore, heliocentrism is a lie.
If heliocentrism is accepted as true, then the following must also be true.
- Heliocentrism is true.
- Heliocentrism opposes God’s Word.
- Therefore, God’s Word is a lie.
Which syllogism do you support? Will we pass the test Adam failed?
