After spending considerable time meditating on the testimony of God in Genesis and throughout the Bible regarding the origin and nature of the heavens and earth, I am convinced that any Christian who adheres to the claims of modern astrophysics and heliocentrism is, in fact, rejecting God’s testimony regarding his creation and has been seduced by a pagan occult religion. The word “occult” means hidden. Occult religion in general is the search for and use of hidden (satanic) knowledge to gain “enlightenment,” power, favor, and access to whatever “god” or power source is providing the knowledge. In this article,

I will show that modern astrophysics, including heliocentrism, is an occult religion. It is based on paganism, was first proposed and popularized by those who elevated reason above scripture, and provides knowledge that previously had been hidden which contradicts the Bible. 

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, they would become like God, knowing good and evil for themselves. Perhaps they imagined that they would be equal to God and no longer be dependent upon or subservient to him.

Whatever was their thinking, 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.

As we know from the Bible, 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 him. 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 now knew both good and evil. The unwanted and result was their coming under the tyranny of sin, sickness, death, and the devil. 

The temptation and fall in the garden is foundational for our understanding how the devil operates by enticing people into evil and consequent destruction by offering to 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.

Satan’s goal is 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 United States is a cautionary tale in that regard. We were founded by men who liberty higher than it should have been. Patrick Henry, an icon of the Revolution, famously said: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Our forefathers created a republican form of government that would hopefully safeguard our hard earned freedom from England, but we know that eventually evil people learn how to “play” every system to their advantage. The freedoms of this country eventually were turned against the people and into a license to do evil. Now we sometimes are punished if we do not affirm evil. Any time we elevate reason and freedom above our dedication to God, we became enslaved. (Romans 1:18-23)

The only possible way back to true 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.

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, who is the true light giver.

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 loves to pose as our friend as he works to destroy us.

...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 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. 

God’s Mysteries

Satan’s best lies have an element of truth in them. God does hide some things from us. Some of what he conceals is 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. This is a chief 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.

To gain more understanding, I suggest you read another of my articles entitled, "An Unexpected Key to Happiness."

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

This brings us to Genesis Chapter One, in which God revealed the creation order and nature of the heavens and earth. 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 will be undermined. Why would we trust anyone who lies in the very first chapter of his book? 

I have written an article delineating the fundamental differences between the Genesis account and what is generally believed today regarding cosmology – the heliocentric model. You may wish to take time to read it to refresh yourself regarding how vastly these competing claims differ. Sadly, heliocentrism is regarded as an established scientific fact by most of the church in the West, even though believing it requires us to dispute the truthfulness of Genesis and many other verses and passages in the Bible.

It may surprise many to discover that heliocentrism is a theory rather than a fact. It will probably be an even greater shock to find out that it is an occult religion going back to ancient Egypt. Its grip on our minds derives from the occult power of satanic deception. It is a spell that must be broken spiritually. Many are so overpowered by it that they will not even consider what I am writing in this article, rejecting it out of hand.

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).

Conversely, empirical experiments designed to confirm the earth’s motion through “space,” such as Airy’s “Failure” and the Michelson-Morley experiment,  proved instead that the earth is at rest.

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.

The most common alleged “proofs” that support heliocentrism are the CGI images of a spherical earth suspended in space provided by NASA and other space agencies and the reasoning that only a spherical earth can account for eclipses.

Both of these fail under scrutiny. 

If a person were to say that all swans are white, producing photograph after photograph of myriads of white swans, it could not overcome my producing one black swan. Likewise the multitude of supposed proofs of a globe earth cannot overcome a few basic “black swans,” such as the lack of demonstrable curvature and the law of entropy, which demands that pressurized gas have a container.

It is not within the scope of this article to try to prove these statements to you. If you are interested in investigating these claims, you may wish to access my Resource Page. In this article, I rest my case on the testimony of Scripture.

Einstein developed his theory of special relativity to explain away the unexpected and 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? He accepted the earth’s motion as an unprovable presupposition, a fact. How convenient! Anyone who has studied astronomy knows that declaring theories as facts is common procedure.

Michio Kaku, an outspoken and well-known astrophysicist, admitted that modern astrophysics is “off” by a factor of 10 to the 120th power, which means it is worthless for describing reality. This is because it has strayed from the foundational truths of the Bible and ventured into satanic speculation.

One of the great true experimental, as opposed to theoretical, scientists of  Einstein’s era was Nicolai Tesla. 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.”

Heliocentrism Is an Occult Religion

The reason I can 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 Word of God.

However, it was not long before that group died out. Succeeding generations caved to the new theory. 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 faith in 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

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, a form a pantheism.
• Spiritual knowledge (“gnosis”) can transform the soul, making this a form 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, translated into English by Isaac Newton, and Asclepius. Some of its key components are spiritual enlightenment – Gnosticism, meditation and contemplation, astrology, alchemy, sacred geometry, and the pursuit of hidden (occult) wisdom. The most significant thing, as far as the theme of this article is concerned, is that Copernicus and Newton, as well as other Enlightenment era thinkers, were seeking hidden knowledge from pagan occult sources. 

Hermes Trismegistus, who 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 and Newton 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 qualifies as an occult religion for many reasons, but for the purposes of this article, my main argument is that 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 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 comes directly 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 if 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?

Prayer

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