Believing Satan’s first lie opened a flood gate of all manner of deception that seems to grow more pervasive by the day. We are drowning is a cesspool of lies and underestimate the peril. Most people do not seem to believe the Bible’s testimony that Satan has deceived the entire world. (Revelation 12:9) Perhaps we think he fooled a few cult members and those who refuse the amazing offer of forgiveness and life in the gospel. We do not realize that, spiritually speaking, the air we breathe and water we drink have been poisoned. We have drunk contaminated water for so long that we have grown to prefer it to the pure water of God’s Word. This is quite evident when it comes to biblical cosmology.
Our minds have become so clouded that the Bible’s version of the heavens and earth seems preposterous.
In Calvin’s and Luther’s day, those reformers were able to dismiss the Copernican deception with a simple thoughtful statement. That was because the lie had not yet gained traction and wrapped its tentacles around the minds of people indoctrinated in our modern education system. In early days of the Reformation, there was a proper reverence for the truth of the Bible above all other claims – Sola Scriptura.
All Luther felt it necessary to do to refute heliocentrism was to point out to his disciples, who were sharing with one another around the dinner table, that when Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still, it was not a rotating earth that stood still, but the sun and moon. Today when that argument is offered to refute the claims of modern astrophysics, people who do not believe in the literal truth of Joshua’s words simply shrug their shoulders and say, “Well, God can do anything.” 
They refuse to grapple with the simple logic of Luther’s argument. Either the sun and moon stood still or the Bible is not true. If, as my heliocentric friends insist, the earth stopped rotating, that might account for the sun’s lack of motion in the sky, but not the moon’s. It would have kept revolving around the earth. So the Christian heliocentrist resorts to refusing to “go there.” Nothing to see here. Let’s move on and not get bogged down in distractions from our main job, which is to preach the gospel and make disciples. Such an “end run” may succeed in avoiding the issue, but it does not satisfy at all. God can do anything… except lie. He does not want us to lie or call him one.
The gospel is not well-served by our denying the truthfulness of the first chapter of the Bible. We do not help people come under the lordship of Christ by encouraging people to disbelieve the creation account.
John Calvin was even more succinct in his rebuttal of heliocentrism. He asked who would dare to elevate the astronomer’s authority over the Bible’s? In his day that was enough because Protestants had such a high view of Scripture. Today, advocates for returning to biblical cosmology are forced to write article after article and produce video after video to try to convince even Christians to take God at his Word.
The world seeks to intimidate anyone of us who is adventurous enough to think for ourselves or dare to believe that the Bible can stand on its own two feet against what is called “established science.”
This intimidation can take many forms, including mockery, censure, alienation, and downright persecution, such as job loss, etc. The cesspool of lies is deep and has an undertow.
The only people who manage to be able to escape the seemingly inexorable downward pull of occult scientism are those whom God enables to see past the illusion.
The earth is not moving. Water does not bend. There is no curvature. We see too far for the globe to be real. Air pressure cannot exist without a container. Gravitational attraction between masses has never been experimentally proven. Rockets cannot work in a vacuum. The sun and stars cannot possibly be as far away as claimed due to the inverse square law of light. The firmament exists. The moon is a light, and we live on an enclosed circular plane, just as the Bible teaches. We have been hoodwinked by occult previously hidden knowledge that was “revealed” to us by people who were fans of pagan Egyptian hermeticism and sun worship. The satanic cesspool of lies is filled with demons.
This article is my attempt to throw you a life rope that you can use to climb out of the devil’s septic tank. I hope you will grab it. The Lord will get you out if you ask him.
