For most Christians, it would come as a complete shock to discover or even hear that anyone who rejects the clear testimony of God’s Word in Genesis Chapter One and throughout the Bible regarding the origin and nature of the heavens and earth has been seduced by a pagan occult religion. But I am convinced that is the case, and in this article it is my aim to show you why.
The word “occult” means hidden. Occult religion in general is the search for and use of hidden (satanic) knowledge to gain “enlightenment,” power, favor, healing, self-empowerment, and/or access to whatever “god” or power source is setting itself up as a god. The goal is to use this power and knowledge to rule others, but the final result is always the enslavement and destruction of the practitioner. The devil is no one’s friend.
It is my conviction that modern astrophysics, including heliocentrism, is an occult pagan religion clothed in the robes of science.
To see where it all begins, we must go back to ancient Egypt and Babylon, but most people date it beginning during what is called the Enlightenment. Astronomers, who were part of what history calls the Scientific Revolution, altered Western civilization’s concept of the cosmos. These individuals were part of a movement that elevated reason above scripture in order to “liberate” science from the confines of the Bible. In the process, they claimed to discover previously hidden (occult) knowledge about the heavens and earth which contradicts the testimony of the Bible. But before we get into detail, allow me to lay a foundation that will hopefully guide our thinking down the correct channel.
Mankind’s Susceptibility to the Lure of the Occult
Satan preyed upon Adam and Eve by telling them that God had withheld important information from them, which, he, the talking serpent, could help them discover for themselves. The hidden wisdom he offered contradicted what God told them and appealed to their vanity. He promised that by eating the forbidden fruit, rather than die for their disobedience, they would become like God, knowing good and evil for themselves. The lure was self-sufficiency and self-exaltation, which still pulls people toward Satan today. Perhaps they imagined that they would be equal to God and no longer be dependent upon or subservient to him.
From this passage of scripture we learn that humans are extremely susceptible to cunning lies that promise to reveal hidden knowledge and elevate us to godlike status.
We know from the Bible that the devil lied, as he always does. As a result of their believing his lie and acting upon it, Adam and Eve sinned, were immediately enveloped by guilt and shame, hid themselves from their Creator, and died spiritually that very day, as God had forewarned. Their bodies continued to live, but the death process had begun inside them. Contrary to the serpent’s promise, Adam and Eve did not become like God. Instead, sin alienated them from their loving Creator. They lost their innocence and gained firsthand knowledge of evil and the destruction and loss it brings. The serpent’s word came true in that regard. They knew both good and evil. The unwanted consequence was their coming under the tyranny of sin, sickness, death, and the devil.
The temptation and fall in the garden is foundational to our understanding how the devil operates. He entices people into evil, bringing their consequent destruction. He does this by offering them occult knowledge and power. The lure of hidden knowledge is just as strong today as it ever was.
The devil appeals to our pride by promising to reveal what God has hidden from us. Deep down, it seems we sinfully want to be smarter than God and sometimes imagine that we are.
Satan wants to entice us to transfer our allegiance from the Creator to him, Lucifer, the supposed “light bearer.”
In general, satanic occult religions and philosophies cast the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator, as the “bad guy” who unnecessarily hinders mankind’s development. Satan, or Lucifer as he is sometimes called, poses as the “good guy” who is working hard to illuminate and liberate mankind. The promise of liberty that Satan offers always leads us away from God into bondage, destruction, and death.
The only possible way back to real freedom is through repentance and faith in Christ and by voluntarily limiting our “freedom” by placing ourselves once again under Christ the Lord’s authority, which includes honoring God’s Word.
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31–32 (NKJV)
A transfer of allegiance takes place when we believe a lie that causes us to mistrust the true God and sends us into spiritual darkness. Jesus, who is the source of all truth, is also the true light.
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 (NKJV)
If our hearts are hardened against God, we then open ourselves to the evil one, who disguises himself as an “angel of light.”
...Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:14 (NKJV)
Satan entices us to open our hearts to the hidden knowledge of evil while, at the same time, he contradicts and obscures God’s revealed truth.
If we open ourselves to evil and deception, our hearts begin to turn away from God and his Word.
So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:17–18 (NASB95)
When we entertain Satan’s lies, it shows that we underestimate the depth of his savage cunning and trickery. He never plays “according to the rules,” and he is able to weave his spell around the minds of those who abandon God’s truth so that they become lost in a maze of deception with no apparent way out.
Paul gave us some insight in the following passage from Ephesians.
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, Ephesians 4:14–15 (NASB95)
We dare not venture down any path that leads away from complete confidence in the truth of God’s Word lest we find ourselves enmeshed in Satan’s web of lies.
Satan’s Misuse of Scripture
Satan’s best lies have an element of truth in them. He tries to lure Bible believers into deception by twisting scriptures into a meaning that God never intended. A great example of this is when the devil tempted Jesus to jump off the pinnacle of the temple to prove his divinity. He quoted Psalm 91 out of context to try to fool the Lord into misapplying scripture.
5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” 7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’ ” Matthew 4:5–7 (NKJV)
But Jesus, the author and personification of truth, was not deceived. He knew the full context which promises that God will guard him in his ways and give him victory over Satan, who is compared to a serpent, lion, and dragon in other places in scripture.
11 because he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in your ways. 12 Upon hands they will lift you, lest you strike your feet against a stone. 13 You will tread upon snake and serpent, and you will trample down lion and dragon. Psalm 90:11–13 (LES2)
We know from the Genesis account of the temptation in the garden that Satan loves to twist scripture and assign it an alternative meaning that God never intended. He told Adam and Eve that “sure die” did not mean that, but that instead it covered a deeper meaning that they would become like God.
Whenever we are encouraged to believe that God did not mean what the Bible clearly says, we can be sure the Deceiver is at work.
God’s Mysteries
It is true that God does hide some things from us that are outside of our need to know. He is God and is not required to share with us the secret counsels of his heart. Moses wrote:
The hidden things are the Lord your God’s, but the revealed things belong to you and to your children forever, to do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29 (LES2-Septuagint)
The “revealed things” are those things that God sees fit to reveal to us in his Word by his Spirit.
If God does not address a topic in the Bible, we are free to explore it using the resources available to us, but, if the Bible clearly teaches on a topic, we are unwise to speculate contrary to what it reveals, for it will surely lead to deception.
Another reason God hides things is to test our humility and loyalty, to see if we will trust in him even when we cannot figure things out for ourselves.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5–6 (NKJV)
God created us to trust and rely upon him, which is a main way we bring honor to him. Trust plus allegiance are the two ingredients of faith, without which we cannot please God. (Hebrews 11:6) If trust is broken, allegiance tends to disappear. This is what happened to Adam and Eve.
Refusing to trust God’s words impugns his character, something no wise person would ever do. Humility enables us to be okay with not knowing everything.
God conceals some mysteries in order to reveal their full meaning at the proper time. He is indeed a God of surprises! These mysteries cannot be understood apart from divine revelation.
When God opens our understanding to grasp his holy mysteries, however, the new revelation or insight always agrees with and adds depth to what the Lord had already spoken earlier in his Word. Satan’s occult mysteries, however, contradict what God previously said.
For example, one of the greatest mysteries in the Bible, which was hidden until after Christ’s resurrection, is that the Gentiles are included in God’s plan of salvation on an equal footing with the Jews. Paul wrote:
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—2 if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, 3 how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, 4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), 5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: 6 that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. Ephesians 3:1–7 (NKJV)
This New Covenant revelation explained in greater depth the meaning of God’s promise to Abraham that his “Seed” (singular, that is, Christ – Galatians 3:8,16) would become a blessing to the whole earth. Rather than the relatively small group of ethnic people called the Jews being God’s “chosen people,” the New Covenant enlarged that number to include both Jews and Gentiles who are chosen “in Christ.”
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Ephesians 2:14–18 (NKJV)
The rock solid principle concerning godly mysteries, things concealed from us until God reveals them by his Spirit, is that the new revelation always builds upon and clarifies what was already written.
God never reveals some new “truth” that contradicts what is written in his Word.
The Dishonesty of Modern Astrophysics
In Genesis Chapter One, God revealed the order of creation and the nature of the heavens and earth. It stands to reason that the opening chapter of the Bible is of fundamental importance.
If we determine that it is not a true account of creation or a reliable description of the world in which we live, our confidence in God and his Word will be undermined. Why should we trust anyone who lies in the very first chapter of his book?
There are unreconcilable fundamental differences between the Genesis account and what is generally believed today regarding cosmology – the heliocentric – Big Bang model. You may wish to take time to read the linked article to refresh yourself regarding how vastly different these competing claims are. Sadly, the heliocentric theory is now regarded as an established scientific fact by most of the church in the West, even though believing it requires us to call into question the truthfulness of Genesis and many other verses and passages in the Bible from cover to cover.
It will surprise many to discover that heliocentrism is a theory rather than a fact. If we exclude the purported real photographic evidence offered by NASA, we have no proof that the world in which we live is a rotating globe hurtling around the sun and through space at incredible speeds with twelve different simultaneous motion vectors. I will cover where we should be wary of putting trust in NASA in a future article.
Before NASA, men could only observe the heavens from earth and theorize about them. Such theories were reasoned conjectures that, once accepted, provided a basis for trying to explain various phenomena, such as moon phases, eclipses, the seasons, etc.
Astronomy, astrophysics, or cosmology has always been based on adopting an unprovable presupposition and working out from that. Therefore, all such “science” is theoretical rather than experimental.
Interestingly, some leading astrophysicists over the last five hundred years agree that it is impossible to prove the heliocentric theory through observation from the earth. Models can be constructed that will explain all astronomic phenomena using either a geocentric or heliocentric paradigm.
People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations, For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that. —Cosmologist George Ellis, in Scientific American, “Thinking Globally, Acting Universally”, October 1995
J.D. Bernal stated:
[Copernicus’] reasons for his revolutionary change were essentially philosophic and aesthetic,” and in a later edition he is more convinced that the “reasons were mystical rather than scientific.” —J. D. Bernal, Science in History, 1st edition, London, Watts, 1954; 2nd edition, 1965).
Some clever true scientists conducted actual empirical experiments to test if the earth is moving through “space” or the “ether,” such as what has come to be called Airy’s “Failure” and the Michelson-Morley experiment. However, all these actual experiments showed instead that the earth is at rest. That is why Airy’s experiment was called a “failure.” It did give the results that were expected and desired.
The data [of Michelson-Morley] were almost unbelievable… There was only one other possible conclusion to draw – that the earth was at rest. – Physicist Bernard Jaffe, Michelson and the Speed of Light, 1960, p.76.
Such a finding, however, was completely unacceptable to those pre-committed to the heliocentric model. It put some of astrophysics’ most basic beliefs in jeopardy. In response, Einstein developed his theory of special relativity to explain away the unwelcome results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. He famously concluded that it is impossible for us to tell whether it is the earth that is moving or the sun, moon, and stars.
“While I was thinking of this problem in my student years, I came to know the strange result of Michelson’s experiment. Soon I came to the conclusion that our idea about the motion of the Earth with respect to the ether is incorrect, if we admit Michelson’s null result as a fact. This was the first path which led me to the special theory of relativity. Since then I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment, though the Earth is revolving around the Sun.” (Taken from How I Created Relativity by Albert Einstein)
How could Einstein know something that cannot be proved? That is not science. It is religion, an occult religion, as we shall see. He stated as fact the earth’s motion while acknowledging it is an unprovable presupposition, and he got away with it! Anyone who has studied astronomy knows that declaring unprovable theories are facts is a common procedure. e.g. dark matter, black holes, etc.
This indicates that modern astrophysics has already determined that the popular heliocentric – Big Bang model cannot be challenged or overthrown. The fix is in!
If a person theorized, based on his observations, that all swans are white, producing photograph after photograph of myriads of white swans, it could not overcome someone else producing one black swan. Likewise the multitude of supposed proofs of a globe earth cannot overcome the “black swans” provided by biblical cosmologists, such as the lack of demonstrable curvature of water and the law of entropy, which demands that pressurized gas have a container.
If you are interested in investigating these claims, you may wish to access my Resource Page.
Michio Kaku, an outspoken and well-known astrophysicist, admitted that modern astrophysics is “off” by a factor of 10 to the 120th power, by which he meant that the disparity between theory and experiment is the largest its ever been.
Modern astrophysics is worthless for describing reality.
This is because it has strayed from the foundational truths of the Bible and ventured into satanic speculation.
Nicolai Tesla was a great experimental scientist of Einstein’s era. He did not not have much good to say about Einstein, the poster boy of modern astrophysics. He regarded him as a charlatan whose elaborate theories had no relationship with reality. He called the theory of Relativity: “…magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles, and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.”
I am reminded of the scene in the Wizard of Oz when the dog Toto pulled the curtain back exposing the little man operating the controls that provided the terrifying illusion of the wizard. It is also interesting to me that the wicked witch was destroyed when Dorothy threw water on her. My own heliocentric illusion “evaporated” when I first saw that water shows no curvature, allowing us to see much farther than a globe would permit.
Edwin Hubble, of telescope fame, wrote the following after discovering that cosmic background radiation indicates that the earth is the center of the universe.
…Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central Earth…This hypothesis cannot be disproved, but it is unwelcome and would only be accepted as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. Therefore we disregard this possibility…. the unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs…. such a favored position is intolerable…Therefore, in order to restore homogeneity, and to escape the horror of a unique position…must be compensated by spatial curvature. There seems to be no other escape.” (The Observational Approach to Cosmology)
Hubble’s views agree with what has come to be known as the “Copernican Principle,” which holds that the earth and humanity are nothing special, the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches.
Christians need to understand that modern astrophysics is not a pursuit of truth. It is determined effort to conceal it.
Heliocentrism Should Be Regarded as an Occult Religion
The reason I affirm that heliocentrism is an occult religion is because it claims to be a revelation of previously hidden knowledge that contradicts God’s Word.
Before Copernicus, mankind generally accepted that the earth is as described in Genesis, with a few exceptions. Copernicus was encouraged by the Pope to publish his theory, but it was initially rejected by the Reformation leaders, such as Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli, who stood by the authority of the Bible.
However, it was not long before that group of Bible defenders died out. Succeeding generations were drawn to the new theory like a moth to the flame. Today Christians defend heliocentrism as if it were God’s revealed truth, maligning anyone who dares venture outside the boundaries of accepted scientific dogma.
Copernicus rejected the wisdom of God’s Word as he pursued the great quest of the Age of Reason – to divest humanity of reliance upon God and the Bible.
[Copernicus’] work, published in 1543, was called On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres. It stated that the center of the universe was a spot somewhere near the sun…The scheme met the requirements of philosophical and theological belief in circular motion. In every other respect, however, Copernicus struck at the heart of Aristotelian and Christian belief. He removed the Earth from the center of the universe and so from the focus of God’s purpose. In the new scheme man was no longer the creature for whose use and elucidation the cosmos had been created. His system also placed the Earth in the heavens, and in doing so removed the barrier separating the incorruptible from the corruptible. —James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed, p. 135
That last sentence is very perceptive. The removal of the firmament effectively eliminated heaven as a real place, removed God from near proximity to us, and called into question the Bible’s accuracy and authority.
Both Copernicus and Isaac Newton were devotees of Egyptian “hermeticism,” a spiritual, philosophical, and mystical tradition based on writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
It emerged in the early centuries of the Roman Empire, blending Greek philosophy, Egyptian religion, astrology, alchemy, and mysticism. Hermeticism teaches that:
- The universe is interconnected – “As above, so below.”
- The divine exists within nature and within human beings, which is a form a pantheism.
- Spiritual knowledge (“gnosis”) can transform the soul, which is the essence of the Gnostic heresy.
- Reality reflects hidden correspondences between the macrocosm (the universe) and the microcosm (the individual).
The main hermetic texts were Corpus Hermeticum, The Emerald Tablet, and Asclepius.
It is highly significant that Copernicus and Newton, as well as other Enlightenment era thinkers, were seeking hidden knowledge from pagan occult sources.
Hermes Trismegistus may be the one who first developed the heliocentric idea.
“For the sun is situated at the centre of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown. Around the Sun are the six spheres that depend from it: the sphere of the fixed stars, the six of the planets, and the one that surrounds the Earth.” (Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius)
Here are Copernicus’ own words. Judge for yourself.
In the middle of all sits Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once? He is rightly called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe: Hermes Trismegistus names him the Visible God, Sophocles’ Electra calls him the All-seeing. So the Sun sits as upon a royal throne ruling his children the planets which circle round him. The Earth has the Moon at her service. As Aristotle says, in his On Animals, the Moon has the closest relationship with the Earth. Meanwhile the Earth conceives by the Sun, and becomes pregnant with an annual rebirth. —Nicolaus Copernicus , De Revolutionibus, Of the Order of the Heavenly Bodies
Copernicus used unmistakable religious language that elevated the sun, Helios or Sol, to a godlike status. It does not take much imagination to make the obvious connection between Helios and Satan.
Newton was also a fan of Hermes Trismegistus and translated one of his books, The Emerald Tablet, into English. One of the quotes from this book obviously influenced Newton’s work regarding gravity: “The sun’s force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.”
“Few people knew the father of modern science had dabbled in alchemy; but the more Keynes collected and the more he “brood[ed] over these queer collections,” the clearer it became that alchemy wasn’t a niche to Newton at all. It was, in many ways, Newton’s life work—more vital to him than physics or mathematics ever was. This Newton “was not the first of the age of reason,” Keynes concluded. “He was the last of the magicians.” (Article from National Endowment for the Humanities)Johannes Kepler, another highly regarded astronomer from that period, wrote in his book titled, Of the Harmony of the World:
Copernicus, Newton, Kepler, et. al. effectively legitimized pagan sun worship by giving it an apparent scientific basis, much as Charles Darwin provided a scientific rationale for those wishing to abandon the need for a Creator with regard to the origin of life.
Heliocentrism |
Christianity |
| Sun is enthroned as Ruler of the cosmos. | Jesus is enthroned at the Father’s right hand as King of Kings |
| The Sun has a temple. | The church is the temple inhabited by God’s Spirit |
| The Sun is the Lamp that illuminates all things. | Jesus is the Light of the world. |
| The Sun is the “mind” of the cosmos. | Jesus is the Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer. We have his mind. |
| The Sun is the Visible God. | Jesus is the Word of God become a man. |
| The Sun is all seeing. | Only God is omniscient. |
| The Sun rules the earth and the planets. | God is ruler of the earth. The sun runs a circuit over the earth as a servant to it (Psalm 19:6). There is no such thing as a planet, only “wandering (Greek: planetes) stars (asters – lights, luminaries). (Jude 13) |
| Sun sires life on earth. | Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. His light is the light of men. He created all things. (John 1:4) |
Once again, heliocentrism qualifies as an occult religion because it introduced “hidden” or occult knowledge that contradicts the Bible.
Sadly, many, if not most, Christians in the West have voluntarily altered how they interpret Genesis to make it agree with pagan heliocentrism. That is a betrayal of God and his Word, one that fundamentally dishonors God and minimizes our witness by exposing our hypocrisy to a watching world. Perhaps no lie of Satan has more effectively turned people away from acknowledging the Creator than heliocentrism and its related theories – the Big Bang and evolution.
One cannot have heliocentrism without the Big Bang, and the Genesis text cannot possibly be harmonized with it. Once we get off God’s path of truth by accepting heliocentrism, we necessarily find ourselves supporting the absurdity of the Big Bang, which derives from the occult Kabbalah. The only way out of this conundrum is to repent and return to the truth of God’s Word.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
The heavens declare God’s glory when rightly understood. Heliocentrism is meant to do away with the God of the Bible.
Will we again see fearless Christians stand up for the truth of the Bible against all opposition, regardless of the personal cost, as during the Reformation?
If no one else will do it, why not you and I?
