In Joshua 10:12-13
On the day that the Lord gave the men of Israel victory over the
Amorites, Joshua spoke to the Lord. In the presence of the
Israelites he said,
"Sun, stand still over Gibeor;
moon, stop over Aijalon Valley."
-blah blah blah-
The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not go down
for a whole day.
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1 Chronicles 16:30
tremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands
firm, never to be moved.
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And many other stuff like this, which made them think that the
Earth was flat, immovable, with a ball of fire flying across the
sky.
From my contemporary English bible(which I admit to hate, I
prefer my Indonesian bible)
1 Chronicles 16:30 reads:
Everyone on earth, now tremble!" The world stands firm,
never to be shaken.
It's just David's praise to God. Because God holds the power of
this world. It never meant a literal moving or a literal shaking.
It was meant that God made the world safe imo.
while the passage from Joshua was meant to be a miracle. It was
not meant and no way could be intrepreted to say that our world was
the center of the universe.
Both passages never clearly state that our world is the center
of the universe. Never ever. Anyone including layman could know
this. There is simply not enough information to come to the
conclusion that the church did in the past.
I'm beginning to think that the verses in the bible were abused
to fit certain man made doctrine of the time. That our world was
the center of the universe.
Anyone?