Part 2: Satan’s Web of Lies

spider webSatan has built an intricate web of lies in the realm of thought called “science” that has so thoroughly captured the minds of most people that we seem to be incapable or even unwilling to free ourselves. Even we Christians have become so mesmerized with the unproven claims of modern astrophysics and evolution that many of us have given our allegiance to the words of men over the clear words of Scripture without realizing what we have done. 

Harriet Tubman, who risked her own life to liberate others, is credited with saying: “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” We can become so inured to lies that we accept our captivity as normal, or maybe even consider it to be exciting and pleasurable. For example, if Genesis Chapter One is literally true, and there is no biblical reason not to think that it is, then what is called “outer space” is a fantasy inspired by Satan to draw people into desiring to go beyond our assigned habitation into God’s realm on the other side of the firmament. People absolutely love the idea of traveling in space and visiting imaginary “planets.” We have believed Satan’s lies about the cosmos so completely and for so long that we have come to think the Bible’s account of creation in Genesis is primitive and unbelievable.

Thus we have come to accept a counterfeit cosmology that contradicts God’s inspired Word.

To facilitate this treachery without feeling convicted in our hearts of committing treason against God,  we have devised clever ways to interpret Genesis that support the claims of anti-God evolutionary astrophysics. We actually think that such duplicity rescues the Bible from embarrassment.

By admitting that we think God’s Word cannot stand up to scientific scrutiny, we only embarrass ourselves before God.

True science consists of that which we learn about creation through observation, testing, repetition of testing, and falsification. Pseudo-science is built on a set of declarations that cannot be observed by the average person, tested, repeated, or falsified. We are required to accept its tenets by faith because of the word of credentialed experts.

Pseudoscience, therefore, is a religion based on the words of men, as opposed to Christianity which is built on faith in God’s unchangeable Word.

The particular area of speculation that I refer to in this series of articles is connected to cosmology or astrophysics. Since Copernicus, the cosmological theories that the majority of the world has come to accept as true and unassailable are based on conjecture that, once accepted as fact, requires us to accept additional lies which are necessary to make the first lie feasible. 

Here is an example from a related field. Darwin’s observed natural selection at work in the Galapagos Islands. This natural process which favors living things possessing beneficial traits is observable, testable, repeatable, and falsifiable. However, from there Darwin made a giant speculative leap by theorizing that natural selection leads to the self-creation and evolution of biological life out of inanimate matter. This placed his theory beyond the scope of observation, testing, and falsification by claiming it happened eons ago. The only possible test for this speculation, which is an indirect one, is the fossil record, which does not support gradual evolution at all. A vast array of fossils appears all at once. Nevertheless, since evolution provides what some consider to be a viable “scientific” theory for the origin of life without needing a Creator, it has been enthusiastically accepted by a vast number of people, especially those who reject the authority and truth of the Bible.

Men will believe almost anything if it contradicts the Bible.

The Big Bang theory, a derivative of Darwin’s theory of evolution, speculates that the cosmos is billions of years old and also evolved and continues to evolve from nothing.

Evolution, heliocentrism, and the Big Bang compose the unholy trinity of Satan’s deception.

Since no one observes evolution happening in the present, it is speculated that it can happen, given enough time. Quite predictably, evolutionary geologists provide such a time frame by speculating that the earth is billions of years old, thus rejecting the young earth timeline of the Bible. It is now believed by most people that the earth and everything else has been around for eons.

Since all of this is outside of observable and testable science, it has to be taken on faith.

science lieThe war of such false science against the Word of God began in earnest at the advent of what is called the Scientific Revolution when Copernicus published his now revered heliocentric theory, which denied the truthfulness of the Genesis account of creation and other biblical descriptions of the world in which we live and the heavens above. Sir Isaac Newton provided the necessary framework for upholding the heliocentric system when he introduced his theory of gravity. By reputedly observing an apple fall to the ground, he made a speculative jump and reasoned that all masses attract all other masses. This theory is now accepted as a fact, even though we cannot demonstrate it in a lab. Over time the theory of gravity, like the theory of evolution, has come to be accepted as true – without proof! This is the essence of pseudoscience, or what Paul called “knowledge falsely so-called.” (1 Timothy 6:20)

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Episode 2 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

Those who excel at propaganda understand two important things.

If a lie is repeated often enough, it comes to be believed. Secondly, the bigger the lie, the better. This is because otherwise discerning people believe that it is impossible to hide a big lie.

The first lie in this cascading stream of deception came from Copernicus. The second necessary lie came from Newton. From there it was speculated that there must exist a vast emptiness of “outer space” which is a vacuum. Otherwise, Copernicus’ orbits around the sun would be slowed by friction. Eventually such thinking produced what is perhaps the biggest lie of all – the Big Bang, a theory developed by a Jesuit priest named Georges Lemaître in 1927.

To accept heliocentrism, we must reject the Genesis account of creation. This makes it necessary to develop an alternate creation story, which the Big Bang, perhaps derived from the Jewish Kabbala, purports to provide.

In 1973, Fred Hoyle, a prominent British astronomer wrote:

“The heliocentric system is not more accurate than the geocentric one in predicting the apparent motions of the planets, but it is philosophically more satisfying because it avoids the arbitrary assumption that the Earth is in some way special.” (“Nicolaus Copernicus: An Essay on His Life and Work,” 1973)

This is a good summary of what has come to be known as the Copernican Principle, that earth is nothing special, nor are humans, which is a contradiction of the Bible. It is a philosophy that drives people to embrace an anti-God and anti-Bible belief.

Michio Kaku, a famous astrophysicist, admitted that modern astrophysics is largely speculation in a video clip included in the documentary entitled The Principle by Robert Sungenis.

“Usually in science, if we’re off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, ‘Something’s wrong with the theory.’ We’re off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we’re off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is, one with a hundred and twenty zeros after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science.”

Grok AI summarizes Kaku’s statement as follows:

Michio Kaku has discussed the speculative nature of modern astrophysics and cosmology in several interviews and talks, emphasizing how much relies on imagination, conjecture, and untested hypotheses due to the inability to perform direct experiments. (emphasis is mine)

Whenever such speculations contradict the Bible, we are forced to decide between belief in the Creator and a speculation that is attempting to usurp God’s place in our hearts and steal our allegiance.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21 (NASB95)

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NASB95)

We have now come to a time when most of the church rejects Genesis as the literally true account of creation. We have replaced the true knowledge of God with speculations of men, which the apostle Paul called “knowledge falsely so-called.” (1 Timothy 6:20)

Because we have allowed  a web of “scientific” speculations to push the Word of God out of its place of having supreme authority in our hearts with regard to truth, we have become blinded to the true knowledge of God revealed in creation.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
 
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The Cosmic War – Part 1

According to the Bible, a spiritual war has been raging between God and Satan for the hearts and minds of human beings since the garden of Eden. Whether we like it or not, we are caught up in this cosmic conflict. Paul wrote these words of encouragement to the church in Ephesus.

A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. 12 For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:10–12 (NLT)

The devil is cunning, relentless, and evil. He is not someone to underestimate. Our Lord Jesus defeated him when he rose from the dead, but the end of the conflict remains in the future. Until the time when we take part in the final crushing of Satan (Romans 16:20), we are to be vigilant (1 Peter 5:8) and aware of his strategies. God has given us everything we need to be victorious as we rely on the finished work of Christ, the present work of the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God.

The Creator is absolutely trustworthy, deserving our utmost trust and loyalty.

He is brilliant, wise, loving, powerful, and kind. He never lies and always has our best interests at heart.

Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, 2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, Titus 1:1–2 (NASB95)

Nevertheless, near the beginning of Genesis, Satan, in the guise of a serpent, was able rather easily to turn Adam and Eve against their Maker by injecting doubt into their hearts about his good intentions and weaving a cunning lie. The devil promised them that disobeying God’s command would open the door to a deeper kind of “knowledge” that would elevate them to a sort of godhood status. 

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’ ” 4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” Genesis 3:1–5 (NLT)

For some reason, the lure of forbidden knowledge and the desire to be like God can be overpowering to both angels and men. It reveals that we are dissatisfied with being dependent created beings.

At one point, Satan even attempted to oust God from his heavenly throne.

How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! 13 “But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. 14 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ 15 “Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit. Isaiah 14:12–15 (NASB95)

Since the devil was not able to seize his throne, he apparently decided that dethroning God in the hearts of his creatures was the next best thing.

Adam’s and Eve’s betrayal of God placed them, their descendants, and the earth under satanic tyranny and spiritual darkness.

Satan continues to lure mankind into realms of forbidden knowledge, both the occult and what is falsely called science. (1 Timothy 6:20) 

God gave the earth to mankind to inhabit and rule, but just as we were not satisfied with our status of being dependent beings, we have not been content with being limited to our assigned habitation. Instead, we continue to delve into heavenly matters beyond our understanding.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men. Psalm 115:16 (NKJV)

Not being privy to the secret counsels of God or understanding the mysteries of the firmament, godless men and women departed from the Bible and opened themselves to the hidden knowledge of Satan, who was more than willing to feed us tantalizing lie upon lie to lure us into a false understanding of the cosmos that attempts to conceal the glory of God.

Whenever we choose to speculate contrary to God’s revealed Word, we are in danger of entering the occult realm of Satan. It is not surprising, therefore, to discover that Copernicus and Newton were both fans of the legendary Egyptian sun worshiper, Trismegistus, and that heliocentrism is linked firmly to the occult. There is a reason that each so-called planet besides earth is named after a pagan god. The documentary below does an excellent job of explaining all this.

God, for his part, sent a Savior who introduced an astounding new way to be put into a right relationship with him called the New Covenant. God not only provides forgiveness for our betrayal, but he is bringing mankind back under his authority and protection. Our Lord continues to draw us to make the decision to give him the supreme place in our hearts.

The gospel message is a call to turn away from Satan and the kingdom of darkness and proclaim that Jesus, the Creator and Redeemer, is Lord.

For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, Colossians 1:13 (NLT)

But many who have confessed Jesus as Lord still hold to a false account of the cosmos that contradicts the Bible, deludes us, and detracts from the knowledge and glory of God.

This deception is built upon a cleverly constructed web of lies which the Bible calls strongholds. They are logical arguments  built on false premises that erect a barrier to our rightly perceiving truth and believing God’s Word. These strongholds are built upon unproven and unprovable speculations that contradict the Bible. They must be torn down through repentance and by fully embracing God’s revealed truth.

We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. 5 We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 (NLT)

This series of articles is about the contest between the Word of God and human speculations in the guise of “science” with regard to the cosmos. I will do my best to describe the differences between these competing cosmologies – the one found in the Bible versus the one currently regarded as true by most of the world.

There is no competition between God and true science, which is discovered by observation, testing, repetition, and falsification.

Pseudoscience depends on our accepting speculations as fact because of the testimony of credentialed experts.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— 21 which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you. 1 Timothy 6:20–21 (NASB95)

We are encouraged to take their word for things instead of thinking for ourselves. This false kind of science seeks to move investigation beyond the scope of what an average individual can carry out. Complex mathematics is often used to reduce the average person to frustration so that we will simply trust the “experts.” Even if we are not proficient in math or science, God has given us a safeguard upon which we all can rely. The Word of God found in the Bible is absolutely trustworthy in all matters, including science.

The Bible is our benchmark for truth. Everything else must be measured against its words.

This conviction was firmly held at the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, when the slogan sola scriptura” was championed by leading reformers.

Paul affirmed the complete trustworthiness of the Bible.

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16–17 (NASB95)

The prophet Isaiah told us that anything that opposes God’s Word is false.

Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. Isaiah 8:20 (NLT)

But something happened in the 16th Century that tipped the scales in this cosmic war for the hearts and minds of men, women, and children across the earth. Nicolaus Copernicus published his now famous De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), which proposed a revolutionary new way to look at cosmology that contradicted the biblical testimony.

At first his theory was hotly contested by such Reformation notables as Luther and Calvin, who regarded the Bible as the highest authority.

Over the years, however, Copernicus’ heliocentric model has gained the ascendancy, pushing aside biblical cosmology and effectively dethroning the Word of God as the ultimate benchmark for truth in the minds of many.

In this series of articles, I will show how Satan has convinced us to cast aside God’s Word and accept unproven and unprovable theories as fact. I will show how accepting one unprovable lie requires that we believe an entire group of corollary lies, creating a vast web of deception. I will also demonstrate how, by so doing, Satan has effectively removed God from the imagination of mankind, replacing the created location of his throne with the empty and hostile void of “outer space.” Thus, Satan has captured the hearts and minds of several generations and deceived us into believing a host of lies that attempt to block our properly seeing God’s glory in his creation or truly knowing him.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

I hope to show how important it is for us to repent from believing these lies and return to an absolute devotion to God and his Word in order to bring more glory to him

I hope you will stay with me on this important series and perhaps also read the linked articles. Perhaps together we will be able to see God’s creation from the biblical perspective and be set free from the reigning cosmology. May God help us all to accept his Word over the words of men.

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Mind Numbing Deception

The Bible tells us that deception and sin can eventually destroy our ability to think critically. Some call this brainwashing. Paul called it becoming a fool.

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:21–22 (NASB95)

The root of deception is the denial of the truth of God’s Word. Anything we believe that is contrary to biblical truth numbs the mind and corrupts our ability to think.

control worldBelow is a quote by Martin Luther, who faced enormous levels of deception and contradiction in his day from the Roman Catholic Church and the embryonic stage of the heliocentric deception. Writing about deception in general, he said:

“For such lies and errors numb the mind and the senses, so that one can no longer distinguish truth from falsehood, but instead accepts everything as good that the devil spreads through his prophets. Therefore, it is necessary that we hold fast to the clear Word of God and not allow ourselves to be led astray by human dreams and visions. For where the Scripture is abandoned, there follows nothing but confusion, blindness, and spiritual death.”

(Luther’s Works, American Edition, Vol. 40: Church and Ministry II, p. 189 — slightly modernized for clarity)

The proliferation of such deception has increased by stages over the centuries to the point where now society in general has embraced destructive lies on a terrifying scale.

Even many Christians, who acknowledge the Bible is true, have been profoundly impacted by some of the most foundational lies of the devil.

One such foundational error is heliocentrism.

Herbert Butterfield, a British historian, argued that the Scientific Revolution—sparked by Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric theory in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)—had a greater historical impact than the Renaissance. In his 1949 book The Origins of Modern Science, he wrote that it “outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements within the system of medieval Christendom.” (Grok)

Sigmund Freud made the connection between Copernican heliocentrism and what he called the “shattering [of] anthropocentric illusions” central to traditional Christian cosmology, in which the Earth was God’s privileged creation at the universe’s heart, thus undermining faith’s foundation and paving the way for later “death of God” theology. (Grok) The Copernican Principle, as it eventually came to be called, is the scientific rejection of “cosmic favoritism.” Earth is just one ordinary planet in an ordinary galaxy in a vast, average universe.

The Copernican Principle means that mankind is insignificant in relationship to the grand scope of universe, or, perhaps, multiverse, if string theory is accepted. The Bible teaches that man and woman were the crowning touches of his creation, for whom the earth was made as a habitation, which imparts to us great significance.

It is not hard to see how heliocentrism and the Copernican Principle gave rise to Darwin’s theory of biological evolution and later the Big Bang Theory of cosmic evolution. Both of these unproven and unprovable theories defy what is written in the Bible. For the Christian, this by itself is grounds for immediate rejection as utter falsehood. 

Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. Isaiah 8:20 (NLT)

Nevertheless, Satan has used these lies to drive countless people away from God and into an eternity of loss, pain, and sorrow, missing out on what could have been theirs had they believed God and accepted the promises of the gospel. Satan is miserable, and he loves company.

Martin Luther, contemporary of Copernicus, recognized this evil for what it was very early. In a conversation which was written down, he said:

“There was mention of a certain new astrologer [astronomer] who wanted to prove that the earth moves and not the sky, the sun, and the moon. This would be as if somebody were riding on a cart or in a ship and imagined that he was standing still while the earth and the trees were moving. [Exactly Einstein’s point of view in his faux theory of special relativity.]

‘So it goes now. Whoever wants to be clever must agree with nothing that others esteem. He must do something of his own. This is what that fellow does who wishes to turn the whole of astronomy upside down. Even in these things that are thrown into disorder I believe the Holy Scriptures, for Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth.’”

(Luther’s Works, Vol. 54: Table Talk (ed. Theodore G. Tappert, Fortress Press, 1967, pp. 358–359). Original in Weimarer Ausgabe (WA TR 4, No. 4638).

Heliocentrism contradicts God’s truth revealed in Scripture and numbs the mind to prevent our correctly perceiving reality.

hiding god

The brainwashing convinces us to ignore the input of our senses and the results of critical thinking and to accept that which defies reason and contradicts what we observe. A recent example with which we are all familiar is the craziness that accompanies transgenderism. We were asked (forced) to recognize multiple genders even though we know and observe that there are only male and female. Those who maintained some common sense and had some not so common courage declined.

helio religionConsider that heliocentrism requires us to contradict the input from our senses which tell us that the earth does not move. We are told to believe that we are rotating at an astounding 1040 mph at the equator, or about 750 mph at the latitude where I live. In addition, we are told that we revolve around the sun at in incredible speed of 66,600 mph. The combination of these two speeds and corresponding force vectors would require us to experience a continual change of acceleration, since the spin of the earth both adds to and subtracts from the speed of our revolution each 24 hours.

On top of those two speeds, we are told that we our entire solar system is galloping through the Milky Way galaxy at a mind-numbing speed of around 500,000 mph. But wait! There is more! The galaxy is moving at 1 to 2 million miles per hour (It seems to change!) away from the epicenter of the Big Bang explosion! Imagine. We are traveling in four directions at once at incomprehensible speeds, but we do not feel any of it. If you believe that, you have been brainwashed.

solar system

And if the earth is rotating at 1040 mph at the equator, how is it that we do not feel super-hurricane like winds? We are told it is because the earth’s atmosphere rotates, too. If that is the case, why do we feel air currents traveling in multiple directions. Why do we have wind currents such as the jet stream, which independently travels their routes?

wind debunks globe

And if the earth is rotating, how do airplanes land on the ground that is moving beneath them?

And if the earth is curved, as heliocentrists tell us, why do airplanes fly straight and level according to their gyroscopes?

gyroscope

If the earth were a globe, airplanes would be constantly descending to avoid flying off into “outer space.”

brainwashed

And if the earth is speeding through the universe at 2 million miles per hour, why have the stars remained in the same positions? Why are we able to photograph the stars making concentric circles around Polaris? 

stars trails

The fact of the matter is that none of these things make any sense at all to the rational mind, but we have been taught to accept what the experts tell us, rather than to think critically. 

brainwashing globe

Our indoctrination begins at a young age, when all our adult authority figures tell us that we live on a globe zooming through space. Over our lifetimes, we are shown endless images of this globe. We have been tantalized by space movies that have created in us a desire to explore beyond the limitations of this earth, the habitation God assigned to us. We are told that the earth is dying and our hope is somewhere “out there,” perhaps Mars. All of this is lie, but we bought it hook, line, and sinker.

How shall we recover from such deception? The Word of God can set us free, if we believe, receive, and act upon it. 

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:31–32 (NASB95)

Lies enslave. The truth sets us free. 

If we accept the cosmology taught in the Bible, it will loose us from Satan’s web of deception. We will be able to see creation’s wonder and beauty with new eyes! When we look up, we will understand that God’s throne rests atop the dome of the firmament, just as the Bible says.

One day, God will roll back the firmament like a scroll to reveal our glorious Lord Jesus to the entire earth at once, something that can only happen on the earth the Bible describes.

Below is a documentary I recommend to anyone who is open to exploring this deception in greater depth. Please notice Google’s mandatory disclaimer. Consider that they only provide this regarding subject matter that threatens to expose their lies. Other topics, such as New Age, witchcraft, transgenderism, etc. get a free pass. They are not concerned with suppressing lies, but the truth.

Biblical Cosmology Says God Is Very Near, Not Some Absentee Landlord

Some of the worst slums are owned by absentee landlords who live far away and have no direct supervision or real interest in the condition of their properties and occupants except for the income they generate. Deists imagine God is something like this, claiming he created everything and then left it to us to manage things the best we can, having no direct or personal interest in the daily workings of things. Albert Einstein said he thought God was like this, taking his cue from the philosopher Spinoza. If we accept the universe as presented by astrophysicists from Copernicus until the present, it is not difficult to arrive at this conclusion. In fact, it might be even more reasonable to conclude that there is no God at all! Perhaps this is why so many famous astrophysicists are self-proclaimed atheists.

The Bible, however, paints a much different picture of a Creator who is quite near to us and continues to directly oversee his creation, taking an intense interest in the people who occupy it.

God’s Word also tells us that the heavens, rightly understood, declare God’s glory and character. 

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

The heavens and earth should tell us about his power, of course, because we understand to some degree how much power it took to create all this. But Paul said that we also should arrive at some sense of his divine nature by observing his creation. 

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1:20 (NASB95)

We know that the Bible describes God as love. His love is perhaps the most amazing aspect of his being. For us who believe the New Testament, his love is so great that he sent his only Son to die a horrible death to make it possible for us to be reconciled to him! But does the universe of Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, and other modern proponents of anti-biblical astrophysics communicate anything at all about God’s love? I think not. Instead we are presented with an fathomless void, a cold uninhabitable supposed vacuum in which stars and planets and immense whirling galaxies are separated by incomprehensible distances, where God’s abode is nowhere to be found. We are told that other life forms surely exist, perhaps far advanced compared to ours, who might be hostile and a looming threat to our existence! We are told that asteroids and comets may someday, soon perhaps, impact the earth, causing overwhelming destruction. We are also informed that our “planet” (The word in Greek means wanderer.) has a thin, fragile atmosphere that is no protection at all and may fail us in the end. We are told that we revolve around an immense and far away sun whose nuclear explosions could create huge solar flares that could threaten our very existence. This does not paint a picture of a loving God.

I still remember looking up at a cold full moon as a high school student who was searching for God. I felt very much alone in the universe. Where was God? Does he inhabit some mysterious spiritual realm unknown to us that we will only discover after death? Is he even “out there” at all? Thankfully, if you know my story, the Holy Spirit drew me to Christ in my first year of college. I came to know the love of God personally, but his creation played no part in the matter. In fact, we might say the Holy Spirit overcame Satan’s false narrative regarding the heavens and earth in order to draw me to Christ.

Now that, decades later, I have come to believe the biblical account of the heavens and earth, it is easy for me to see God’s loving hand in his creation.

If we take the Genesis account of creation as a literal description of how God created the heavens and earth, which is how Jesus intended us to understand it, we will realize that God’s throne is situated right above us, as the Bible says over and over, in a very real physical location from which he looks down upon us with intense and loving interest. 

If you have not yet accepted what the Bible teaches about creation and the heavens and earth, what comes next in this article will challenge your understanding of things. In fact, it may seem preposterous, but that is only because the devil has succeeded in making God’s truth seem like a fairy tale.

Please keep an open mind and ask yourself, “Am I willing to stake everything on what God says in the Bible, or do I think that the proclamations of so called science is a higher and more certain form of truth?” 

The Bible tells us that God’s throne is right above us, atop a structure he made on the second day of creation called the firmament (Hebrew: raqia), which is a solid, immensely strong crystalline-like dome that separates the waters above from those below. I have written three articles on this structure, which I encourage you to read: Introduction to the Firmament, The Amazing Firmament, and The Firmament, the Throne, and the Apocalypse. The prophet Ezekiel saw this structure, as did John the Revelator. Moses and the elders of Israel actually visited it! It is a real place.

globe loverThe existence of this dome precludes the earth’s being a sphere, which is an anti-biblical lie thrust upon us by sun worshipers going back to ancient Egypt, who regarded spheres as the perfect shape. I have written about the occult origins of heliocentrism in another article; so, I will not go into detail now about Copernicus’ and Newton’s ties to the legendary Egyptian hermetic author Tresmegistus.

Please do not abandon me now. I am not crazy: I am biblical. If you cannot believe what I am writing, at least humor me by continuing to the end of the article.

Without realizing it, we have been duped into worshiping a kind of idol called the globe for centuries.

Satan has managed to draw humanity into a love affair with a lie, even tempting us to try to pierce the firmament in pursuit of a fantasy called outer space.

The desire to do this goes all the way back to Babel. They built a tower. We have rockets. Satan has deceived us into trying to be lords of the universe rather than govern our assigned realm, the earth.

So, if we accept what the Bible says, the earth we live on must necessarily be a circular plane above which rests a dome of incredible size, which took God an entire day to create, in which God placed all that we see in the heavens. (See the illustration below which is found in Logos Bible software and is understood by Bible scholars to be the view held by the Hebrews and most of humanity prior to the dawn of what is called the Scientific Revolution, when we traded God’s truth for man’s speculations.)

This dome protects us.  According to the Bible, the dangers supposedly lurking in the “outer space” of atheistic astrophysics is a satanic lie. Perhaps we should consider that the Bible does not mention such a place as outer space, only “outer darkness,” a realm of judgment and separation from God. It seems that Satan is luring us to try to journey to this place of judgment!

God’s loving hand created a perfect and protected environment for his people. His throne is directly above.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)

The word that is translated “circle” is the Hebrew chug, which means a circle drawn with a compass, not a ball or sphere, which is an entirely different word. hebrew earth

Believing God’s Word pits us against the declarations of mainstream “science” and the opinions of most people. It will subject us to ridicule and worse. Standing for God and his Word has always carried a stigma as far as the world is concerned. God asks us to willingly endure the reproach of those who do not believe that the Bible is true.

We who adhere to a biblical cosmology cannot explain everything, but neither can those who believe in a globe earth careening through space. We are not required to explain everything, though, are we?

Does God not expect us to believe his Word without our having complete understanding? Was not the quest for illicit knowledge the downfall of Eve and Adam? Did God not rebuke Job for demanding to know things beyond what God chose to reveal? 

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; 9 When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; 10 When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; 11 When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’ Job 38:4–11 (NKJV)

One thing is sure. Only God knows how he created this world and the heavens, and we can only know for certain what he tells us in his Word. When we try to go beyond that revelation, if we end up contradicting his Word, we have departed from the truth.

Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. Isaiah 8:20 (NLT)

God wants us to trust him even when we do not fully understand. Satan mocks our childlike faith in God and his Word and promises to give us greater knowledge beyond what God reveals.

Please don’t go down that road again! If you have been traveling on it, now is the time to make a u-turn.

turtleThe presence of the firmament with God enthroned  above it teaches us that God is very near and watches over us continually. This is one major reason Satan works so hard to hide the true nature of our world. A turtle on a fence post did not get there by himself. A solid dome over the earth did not somehow randomly evolve out of the chaos of an explosion.

A biblical understanding of the realm in which we live reveals the reality, nearness, character, and glory of God.

People who discover that the Bible’s version of cosmology is the truth often find God, too. Or, should we say, he finds us? Below I have a short video containing some testimonies of people who came to have faith in God and Christ in this way. I have collected even more on my Biblical Cosmology Resource Page.

God is not the absentee landlord of the Deists. He is the very near God of the Bible.

Are We Smarter than Jesus?

I feel sure that none of my Christian friends would ever claim to be smarter than Jesus; however, we sometimes act and speak as if we think so.

One of the greatest lies of our time is that the highest and most certain form of knowledge comes from the scientific realm.

Because we have probed some of the mysteries of biology and physics and have more advanced technologies, we may believe that we are smarter than our ancestors, some of whom we might describe as being “pre-scientific.” To our great loss, we may denigrate other forms of knowledge and wisdom given to us by God, even that found in the Bible.

Jesus taught that God’s Word is absolute truth, of which he is the embodiment.

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. John 17:17 (NASB95)

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6 (NASB95)

The Bible warns us to never add to or subtract from God’s Word. (Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 30:6, and Revelation 22:18-19)

Those who reject God’s Word in favor of some other source of knowledge or “truth” are guilty of suppressing God’s truth, which dishonors the Creator and hides his glory.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Romans 1:18–23 (NASB95)

God’s wrath in the form of a descent into lust and perversion always follows the suppression of truth about his creation and his person. I believe that is where we are today as a direct result of our suppressing God’s truth about creation. We have abandoned the Genesis Chapter One account of creation and cosmology in favor of modern atheistic astrophysics.

All creation testifies to the glory of God, if it is rightly understood. 

I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts. Psalm 119:99–100 (NASB95)

If we measure all other forms of supposed truth against the benchmark of God’s Word, we will have more understanding than those who abandon God’s Word because they think other sources of knowledge are more reliable.

As a result of elevating supposed scientific knowledge and men’s theories above God’s Word, many interpret the opening chapter of Genesis as a poetic phenomenological description of origins which God never intended for us to regard as factual. But has God authorized us to do that? Is there anywhere in the Bible that we are plainly told that we should interpret Genesis metaphorically?

These same Christian friends who feel compelled to interpret Genesis Chapter One phenomenologically would undoubtedly affirm that Jesus is the eternal Logos (Word) who became flesh through his miraculous conception in Mary’s womb by the Holy Spirit. They would also stand behind John’s claim that Jesus, as the pre-incarnate eternal Logos, created all things.  

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. John 1:1–3 (NASB95)

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 (NASB95)

As the incarnate eternal Logos (Word) walking upon the earth, Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit without measure. He had more wisdom and understanding than any person who ever lived. Being the very embodiment of God’s Word of truth, he had and has the greatest understanding of its meaning. After all, the author of a book knows better what he intended to say than any reader. 

Now here is where it gets very interesting. When Jesus walked on the earth, he understood Genesis to be literally true.

In fact, he taught his disciples that God’s Word cannot be “broken.” (John 10:35) The Greek word “luo” means to loose, untie, or release. Bible scholars extend that meaning to include to annul, break, or destroy. In other words, we cannot release God’s words from the original meaning and interpret them any way we like. God’s Word carries the force of what it actually says, rather than what we might wish it said. 

Therefore, are we not guilty of “breaking” God’s Word if we interpret Genesis Chapter One as less than factually true? 

In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus taught that Adam and Eve were created male and female “at the beginning” , a direct quote from Genesis 1:27.

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? Matthew 19:4–5 (NKJV)

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them...God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.Genesis 1:27, 31 (NKJV)

Jesus believed and knew Adam and Eve were and are real people whom God (he) created on the sixth day of creation. Mark 10:6 also puts their creation at the “beginning,” thus eliminating old earth accommodations to evolutionary dogma and affirming the six-days of creation. Jesus also believed that Abel was an historical figure. The same is true of Noah, Moses, and Jonah. Jesus does not allow us to relegate any of them to allegory or myth.

Neither do we have permission to relegate the six days of creation to mere poetry that is not scientifically and factually true.

The only reason people began to do this is because we fell for the lie that scientific knowledge is more accurate and reliable than God’s Word. We believed the ungodly occult theory that the earth rotates and revolves around the sun. We accepted anti-biblical theories of evolution and the Big Bang that are required if we accept heliocentrism. Now, after 500 years, the heliocentric lie and Newtonian astrophysics seem more reasonable than the truth of God’s Word. We are victims of the greatest indoctrination scheme of all time, which is designed to hide the truth about creation and obscure God’s glory.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)

Should we not heed the warning of John Calvin, who was Copernicus’ contemporary?

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Is it not time for the church to repent of idolizing men’s words above God’s and to admit that we are not smarter than Jesus?

The Faith of Einstein

Jesus said that the only way to enter God’s kingdom is by having childlike faith.

“Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” Mark 10:15 (NASB95)

We can only become a child of God and part of the kingdom of God by believing the gospel and confessing that Jesus is Lord. (Romans 10:9-10)

God is looking for and expects his people to have a simple childlike faith that takes him at his word.

The fight for such faith is never ending because the devil is constantly trying to undermine it. One of our greatest fears as adults is connected to looking foolish, which is rooted in pride. Satan takes advantage of this desire to appear wise by telling us that to simply believe God’s words is naive and simple minded. Eve was completely seduced by this lie, and so often we are, too.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 (NASB95)

Childlike faith never feels the need to nuance the words of God to make them say something different from what our Lord meant. It simply believes. As adults we often twist God’s words to force them to say what we want instead of what intended. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for practicing this very thing.

Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” 9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. Mark 7:8–9 (NASB95)

We have anti-biblical traditions today that we regard as having more force than the scriptures. One is called heliocentrism, a mere theory that has come to be regarded as a fact that towers over the truth of God’s Word.

Many who call themselves Christians today seem to prefer the faith of Einstein to the simple faith in God’s Word for which God is looking.

Below Einstein describes the God in whom he believed.

I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.  Albert Einstein  (24 April 1929 in response to the question of New York’s Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein: “Do you believe in God?)

Obviously, whatever God Einstein believed in was not the God of the Bible, but one of his own making.

Interestingly, Einstein said he sought to know God in the “lawful” harmony of the world; yet, he turned the laws of physics on its head when he devised the theory of special relativity that negated the monumentally important experimental results of the Michelson-Morley experiment. I have written about this in more detail in my article entitled “Is Science vs. Religion a Real Thing?,” if you are interested. As a sort of summary of his “theory” of special relativity, Einstein made another statement of faith.

“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.” (1922 speech at Kyoto University, “How I Created the Theory of Relativity.” Emphasis is mine.)

Since Einstein could not disprove Michelson’s results, which proved the earth’s lack of motion, he chose to say that one simply cannot know whether it is moving or not. With one brilliant stroke of BS, he duped a good portion of the scientific world, but not all, however.

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einstein refutationMichelson physically demonstrated that the earth is motionless, but Einstein countered by saying that it is impossible to observe or prove the earth’s motion or lack thereof. For a theory to be proved, it must be observable, testable, repeatable, and falsifiable. Einstein’s theory falls short in every area.

In one fell swoop, Einstein turned astrophysics into a religion that must be accepted by faith.

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What is most striking is his claim of having a priori knowledge that the earth is revolving around the sun. Let me restate Einstein’s claim. “We cannot detect any motion of the earth, but we know it is moving.” This could only be known by some form of revelation perhaps, but certainly not scientifically, according to Einstein. Could this revered intellectual actually have been a deceiver? I believe he was. He propped up a tottering lie by baffling the world with BS that flatly contradicts God’s Word.

The Christian’s faith must rest on one thing – God’s immutable word.

And, according to Jesus, our faith must be as simple as a child’s. In other words, we are to take God at his word, period. End of story. God said it. That settles it. 

And, yet, today believers commonly deny that Genesis Chapter One is actually true. Instead they assert that it is mere poetry, a creation myth written by pre-scientific people that somehow contains truth about God and creation, but is not actually the truth. However, if it is not actually the truth, then why should anyone believe anything else written in the Bible? What else is not actually the truth? Atheists understand this bind in which we put ourselves. Why can we not see it?

Satan struck a blow at all of God’s truth by influencing the church to abandon the literal truth of Genesis Chapter One.

And I can almost hear God asking us, “Who told you my words are not true? Who told you to interpret it as mere poetry?” It certainly was not God. It sounds like the serpent in the garden, doesn’t it? “Did God really say?” (Genesis 3:1)

Sadly, many of us have surrendered our allegiance to God’s Word in favor of believing what people like Einstein tell us. What a sad state of affairs! The faith of Einstein does not please God. The kind of faith our Lord is looking for is that of a child.

God is looking for people to stand fearlessly against the mockery of men to proclaim, “I believe God.”

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Astrophysics’ Unholy Trinity

Modern astrophysics is built on three primary lies: evolution, the Big Bang, and heliocentrism. These three fit together to create a portrayal of the heavens and earth that contradicts the Bible and eliminates any need for God. Evolution claims to explain how everything, including life, created itself out of nothing. The Big Bang is atheism’s origins story, and heliocentrism is what set up and necessitated the other two lies. It is no wonder that these three falsehoods are taught as fact in our public education and indoctrination centers.

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What is a wonder is that so many people who say they believe the Bible so easily cast aside the clear words of Genesis Chapter One to embrace these lies.

It seems that people will believe anything as long as it is not written in the Bible. 

Unredeemed humanity has maintained an adversarial relationship with God’s words dating back to the garden of Eden. Satan, in the form of a talking serpent, introduced doubt into the minds of Adam and Eve which resulted in their doubting God’s goodness and casting aside his benevolent warning.

There is something in our sinful orientation that resents and rejects what God says. Behind this propensity lurks an amazing pridefulness that wishes to prove God wrong and figure out things for ourselves.

Satan capitalizes on this tendency to our shame and destruction.

Heliocentrism was the first of these three lies to go mainstream. Copernicus and others, drawing from occultism and sun worship, theorized that the sun is the center of things and maintains a governing force, later called gravity by Newton, over the earth and other celestial bodies. Heliocentrism turns the Bible on its head by saying that the earth moves instead of the sun. It posits that the earth revolves, which accounts for the motion of the sun, moon, and stars. This seems to makes sense to the natural mind and is attractive to our sinful tendency to reject God’s Word, which plainly says that the earth does not move and sun runs a course over the earth. (Psalm 19:6)

The problem so many Christians have is that we more highly value the claims of science than we do God’s Word!

The reformers Luther and Calvin, who were contemporaries of Copernicus, rejected his lies, and we, their spiritual descendants, have betrayed our reformation heritage by abandoning sola scriptura in favor of the worship of science and sola scientia

Every grand atheistic theory needs a proper origin story, and this is where the Big Bang theory and evolution come to the rescue. 

Darwin’s theory of evolution attempts to give a quasi-scientific explanation for the origin of life. Evolution, like heliocentrism and the Big Bang theory, does not fulfill the requirements of true science.

Since they are not observable, testable, repeatable, and falsifiable, all of these theories of men must be accepted by faith.

Therefore, it comes down to whom or what we choose to believe – what is written in the Bible or the theories of men?

Evolution escaped the confines of biology and spread into virtually all the sciences, including astrophysics. The Belgian Jesuit priest Georges Lemaitre officially formulated the Big Bang theory which proposes to account for the origin of the universe out of nothing. The idea that all the matter and energy in the heavens and earth came from a single point is found in the Jewish occult writings of the Kabala, not in the Bible.

There is nothing about modern astrophysics that is not somehow rooted in the occult.

This should give every Christian pause to consider.

I call these three lies, Evolution, the Big Bang, and heliocentrism an unholy trinity because each one depends and draws from the others. The heliocentric solar system cannot exist without the evolutionary Big Bang, all of which completely contradict the Genesis account. 

It is impossible to believe in heliocentrism without agreeing to the premises of evolution and the Big Bang.

This might shock many Christians who think they can hold on to heliocentrism without embracing the Big Bang. I can almost hear those who wish to debate this with me saying, “God can do anything.” My response is that he cannot or will not violate his Word. As the scriptures say, “Let God be true, but every man a liar.” (Romans 3:4) God is not a liar. He says what he means and means what he says.

The Genesis account is true and not some fanciful origins story made up by pre-scientific people. The Holy Spirit inspired all of the Bible, and all of it is true.

Many of my readers will find it extremely difficult or even impossible to let go of heliocentrism because of a lifetime of indoctrination, not realizing how unscientific it is. (I have written many articles and provided many scientific reasons to accept the Bible account, which can be accessed by clicking here.)

My words of encouragement are, “Trust the Lord.” This opposes the modern mantra of “Trust the Science.” I encourage my friends in the Lord to cast aside the fear of looking foolish to those who reject God’s Word. Let us put an end to “nuancing” the words of the Bible to fit our scientific presuppositions and simply believe what is written, even if the world at large criticizes and despises us. Let us embrace the words and truth of the Bible without reservation.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. Luke 9:26 (NASB95)
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Why Are We Embarrassed by the Bible?

Today many Christians are so embarrassed by the Bible that we deny what it says rather than risk looking bad in front of our friends. This is an amazing turn of events considering that the Protestant Reformation was fundamentally a return to the authority of Scripture. The Roman Catholic Church had relegated the Bible to a secondary status beneath church tradition and papal authority. Men and women suffered persecution and even death to put the Bible back into the language and hands of the common people. This return to scripture fueled the Reformation. For a good while reformers championed the slogan, Sola Scriptura, meaning that the Bible only has supreme authority when it comes to truth, faith, and practice. But something happened along the way that caused many in the church to become so ashamed of the Word of God that we felt the necessity to reinterpret it in a way that its authors never intended. We fell into the satanic trap of elevating something else to a higher authority when it comes to practical truth. Today we call it “science.” The Scientific Revolution led many in the church to abandon its simplicity of faith in God’s Word  in favor of adopting popular evolutionary theories of astrophysics, biology, and sociology. 

Thankfully, many believers today accept the Genesis account regarding the creation of man and denounce biological evolution as a lie.

What is puzzling, however, is that many of these same people seem to have no problem at all endorsing modern evolutionary astrophysics and heliocentrism, even though it requires us to twist the text of Genesis Chapter One into an unrecognizable form. 

Jesus said he is looking for people who are unashamed of him and his words. (Luke 9:26) I would rather endure the ridicule of those who reject the Word of God in favor of the ideas of men rather than have the one who inspired the Bible be ashamed of my betrayal of his trust.

Isn’t it time for the church to repent of our worship of science and return to Sola Scriptura?

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The Copernican Captivity of the Church

Any lie we believe brings us into captivity to some degree, and the truth is what sets us free.

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” John 8:31–32 (NASB95)

God’s Word of truth in the Bible is our written source and guarantee of freedom. The Holy Spirit, also called the Spirit of truth (John 16:13), is the one who reveals God’s Word to us. This combination of revelation from the Holy Spirit and the infallible written Word has the ability to break the power of Satan’s lies. Since this is true, it is only logical that Satan will always try to separate us from God’s Word and truth in some way or another. Sometimes he contradicts it outright, as he did with Eve in the garden when he told her she would not die because of disobeying God’s command. Other times, especially with those of us who say we are devoted to the scriptures, he is more diabolically clever.

Satan entices us to deny what God plainly says without compromising our integrity by simply reinterpreting the Bible to suit us.

This sinister ploy is how he duped a great percentage of the church into rejecting the literal truth of Genesis Chapter One. 

We dare not underestimate the pull in all of us to be smarter than God.

The Scientific Revolution of the 1600’s was an offshoot of the Renaissance, which was a return to non-biblical classical thinking. One of the driving forces behind this movement was a determination to discover scientific truths without being “hemmed in” by what the Bible teaches. Copernicus said it like this.

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In other words, Copernicus judged that believing in the literal truth of Genesis Chapter One and other relevant scriptures now constitutes “wresting” them to suit us. Many, if not most, of us in the church have adopted Copernicus’ position based on theories proposed by modern astrophysics.

Martin Luther, a contemporary of Copernicus, utterly condemned that man’s theories as heresy because he upheld the Reformation ideal of sola scriptura. He considered that the Bible is the ultimate source of truth, even when it comes to science. In the following quote, he refers to Joshua 10:12-13.

luther flat earthJohn Calvin, another contemporary of Copernicus, challenged that man’s authority to negate the scriptures.

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What was so clear to these reformers who accepted the authority of Bible has been lost to the modern church when it comes to cosmology.

Today we so firmly accept the heliocentric system that we now demand the Bible to conform to it. We reinterpret Genesis Chapter One to be mere poetry with no scientific accuracy. Is it any wonder that atheist laugh at us.

If a lawyer discovers that a witness is guilty of fabricating a story to make his testimony more palatable, that witness loses all credibility.

If the Bible got creation wrong, why on earth should anyone believe anything else it says?

Since admitting that I believe in the literal accuracy of Genesis, I have been accused of not knowing how to properly read or understand the Bible. I have been teaching the Bible for 54 years, yet suddenly I do not know how to interpret scripture! The author of Genesis believed in its literal accuracy, however. That puts me in pretty good company.

Napoleon Bonaparte is reputed to have said:bonaparte 1

 

Whether he actually is the source of this saying or not is insignificant to my point. The statement is true. People believe the most outlandish things if so-called experts tell them it is the truth. This was on display during the Covid crisis.

God created us to believe his Words. Satan takes advantage of our inherent need to believe. He knows that we are relatively simple beings who can be easily duped.

If we do not adhere to the Words of God in the Bible, we will fall for most anything.

When Satan tempted our Lord at the beginning of his public ministry, Jesus always defeated the devil by quoting scripture. This is our most reliable defense. Paul called this weapon the “sword of the Spirit.” (Ephesians 6:17) If we abandon God’s Word as our ultimate source of truth, we will always go into captivity.

The Scientific Revolution duped the church by telling us that the Bible is good for spiritual and moral truth, but not for science, and we believed it!

Not immediately, though, but Satan knows that he doesn’t have to fool everyone right away. He understands that a lie can become firmly entrenched in just one generation. After the initial truth contenders die off, the younger generation, which has been told that the lie is the truth by the “expert” testimony of scientists, is prone to fall for the new way of seeing things. And that is exactly what happened.

For the last five hundred years we have endured the Copernican captivity of the Church. 

Many Bible-believing Christians will fight “tooth and nail” to preserve the heliocentric system while at the same time insisting that they believe the Bible 100%. Both cannot be true at the same time. We cannot destroy the literal truth of Genesis One and maintain the literal truth of the resurrection. It is a logical impossibility. Either both are true, or both can be dismissed. Satan knows this, but many Christians do not.

Atheists understand that if we do not even believe Genesis is true, our testimony of Christ’s resurrection crumbles.

It is time for the church to repent of this duplicity and forsake its worship of the globe, space travel, and the other lies that were spawned from the heliocentric occult religion that denies the existence of the firmament and makes the sun the “super power” of the cosmos instead of the God of the Bible. It is time for the church to cast aside its fear of being called foolish by a world that rejects God’s truth. It is time for the church to reclaim its lost heritage of “Sola Scriptura.” It is way overdue for us to return to believing the literal truth of Genesis Chapter One.

The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9 (NASB95)

Here I Stand

When on trial before the Roman Catholic Church for teaching biblical truth, Martin Luther was asked to recant. He famously stated: “My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.” Much to my surprise, I find myself in a similar position today regarding the doctrine of the shape of the earth. What once was commonly understood by the church, now has become the subject of intense debate and controversy.

The church has backslidden into gross idolatry, having elevated what is falsely called science above God’s Word. 

Some think that I have embraced deception because I believe in the literal accuracy of Genesis Chapter One and other scriptures that describe the earth and heavens quite differently from what now is generally accepted as being true. While it disturbs me that I am considered to be a scientific heretic and a misinterpreter of the Bible, I take heart that my belief agrees with Luther’s, Calvin’s, and the authors of the Bible.

About the same time God restored the primacy of God’s Word and the wonderful truth of justification by faith during the Protestant Reformation, Satan counterattacked, introducing one of his most mind numbing deceptions – heliocentrism – with its corollary, the spherical earth. Copernicus theorized that the earth revolved around Helios, the sun (god), which became the center and ruling power of the “solar system,” instead of the earth’s being the stationary center of God’s creation over which the sun, moon, and stars run their “circuits.” (Psalm 19:6)

Here is what Copernicus wrote. Judge for yourself whether it is empirical science or an occult religion dressed up in scientific garb.

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

Hermes Trismegistus was an Egyptian sun worshiper and originator of the occult practice of hermetics or alchemy, something to which both Copernicus and Isaac Newton subscribed.

Heliocentrism is a clear example of Satan’s countering God’s truth with an audacious lie, the purpose being to turn people away from belief in the Bible and faith in God.

When Copernicus introduced his novel ideas about the solar system, the reformers were quick to condemn him. Here are the words of Martin Luther.

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The error of Copernicus’ declaration that the earth revolved around the sun was evident to those men who held that the Scripture was the sole foundation of faith and truth.

John Calvin, a preeminent Reformation theologian, asked this question to which modern heliocentric Christians should pay heed.

Calvin's stand

Luther referred to Joshua’s command to the sun to stand still as an elegantly simple refutation of Copernicus’ error, but, today, many Christians merely shrug off this important text by nonsensically replying that God can do anything. I have heard it said that God could stop the earth from rotating and the moon from revolving around the earth without killing everyone by massive tsunamis and the force of the sudden stop from a 1039 mph rotation. Satan truly makes us into fools when we abandon the simple truth of God’s words, even though we imagine that we are incredibly wise. I cannot condemn such answers. I too formerly threw up my hands when faced with the supposed conundrum of trying to reconcile Bible truth with what I thought was proven science. When we wake up to the simple fact that anything that contradicts the Bible is by definition false?

The heliocentric model of the universe stands in absolute contradiction to God’s Word. It suppresses the truth about the creation and God himself, who is revealed through an accurate apprehension of what he made. (Psalm 19:1-2)

The Bible warns us that the truth will be suppressed in the Last Days (Romans 1:18), leading to wholesale delusion (2 Thessalonians 2:11). We have arrived.

The heliocentric lie, coupled with the Big Bang expanding universe, fundamentally changed how humanity viewed the cosmos, God, the Bible, and ourselves.

Instead of there being a benevolent Creator who fashioned an earth protected from outside threats by the firmament, Copernicus launched us into the dark and hostile void of “outer space,” without any sort of tether or protection at all. Heaven became lost in space, an amorphous spiritual place instead of an actual location atop the firmament. This monumental deception gave birth to a whole host of derivative lies.

  • Deism – An impersonal God created the world and left us to our own devices.
  • Atheism – The earth sprang out of nothing through mechanistic processes.
  • Evolution – All life evolved from nothing by random processes. There is no Creator.
  • Moral Relativism – Since there is no God and we evolved, there is no such thing as absolute truth or right and wrong.
  • Meaninglessness – Life is a meaningless existential pursuit of pleasure and power, leading to totalitarianism, hedonism, and despair.
  • A Culture of Sexual Perversion, Abuse, and Suicide since there is no God and Judge, no absolute truth, and no inherent value to life.
  • Living in fear from any number of internal and external threats – viruses, global warming, aliens, and asteroids – which fear allows the powers that be to enslave us.

When we realize that the earth is a stationary plane enclosed by the firmament, above which is God’s throne, our eyes are opened to the truth about the God of the Bible and the accuracy of his Word.

I have listened to testimonies of people coming to believe in the Creator and Jesus as a result of finally understanding that the earth is just as describe in the Bible. I have collected some of these on my resource page.

Making a stand for God’s truth is always controversial.

Jesus caused division wherever he went because truth divides those who receive it from those who reject or suppress it. (John 7:43) Several early Bible translators, such as John Hus and William Tyndale, gave up their lives in order to provide us with access to the Scripture in our own language. The early reformers faced the very real threat of death for adhering to such basic truths as justification by faith and believer baptism. The doctrine of the baptism and gifts of the Spirit still is being resisted to this day. Arguments are made by those who do not value the gifts of the Spirit that, since the gifts are not a salvation issue, we should keep quiet about them in order to preserve unity. Some churches do not allow people to operate in the spiritual gifts in order to maintain cohesiveness.

I do not think we should participate in suppressing biblical truth in order to maintain a superficial unity. Nor do I believe that we should try to force our views on others. 

As long as freedom of conscience and expression are allowed, we should tolerate divergent opinions, unless such a position clearly violates God’s Word. Then the church must erect some sort of barrier to preserve truth.

A primary reason that I left the Roman Catholic Church after being born again was because I could not remain in unity with false doctrine, nor was it proper for me to be a source of disunity within their ranks by teaching doctrine that is contrary to the official church position.

We should always strive to maintain a balance between making a stand for God’s truth and being lovingly patient with those who do not see it yet.

As we press forward into God’s truth, I believe it is wise to keep in mind the following saying.

all things charity

I realize that the doctrine of the shape of the earth is a “non-essential” doctrine in the sense that one does not need to believe it to get to heaven. However, I believe it is a vastly important doctrine which needs to be taught because it strikes a blow at one of Satan’s biggest lies.

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