Bible and Galileo: Summary
Bible Against Galileo?-
The Earth Can Not Move???The Sun Moves Around the Earth?The Earth Has Pillars?The Earth In the Centre of the Universe?
Curiosities over Bible and Science-
Earth Flat or Round? 4 Corners?Israel, the Navel of the Earth?
Bible, Galileo and Controversy
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According to the Bible's quotations of the article of Wikipedia concerning Galileo's controversy over heliocentrism, we may think, wrongly, that the earth doesn't move around the sun. That's a misinterpretation: those quotations of the Bible deserve to be explained. The problem is that the translations of the Bible are not always good. Please check it with a reliable old Bible, dated before 1966, as asked by Our Lady and Jesus in New York. This is normally not so easy anymore; Bibles are becoming adulterated: the masons and other evil forces are very active, attacking subtly the Catholicism since the years 1950, a plot to set the antichrist in the power and corrupt the true Bibles and the true Catholicism... but we can still compare two of the most reliable bibles, the Bible of Jerusalem online and with the Bible of the Vatican online. In this way, we'll be normally (still) able to get the good text.
Example 1: the Earth Can Not Move???
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In Wikipedia, it is said that Psalms 93:2, 96:10 and 1 Chronicles 16:30 say that:
"the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."
Indeed, if we take the Bible of Jerusalem, we find the correct interpretation:
"The world is indeed set firm, it can never be shaken;"
Thus, replacing "moved" with "shaken" may be subtil, but changes a lot the sense of the sentence. It means that the galaxies are firmly fixed/suspendend in the universe and thus not falling into an abysm (and/or disappearing)... it is thus not relevant here if the earth moves around the sun and so on...
With the correct interpretation, there was even no need of a conflict with Galileo! The Bible is thus reliable even in scientific domains, but we must be very careful with translations and interpretations.
Example 2: The Sun Rises, Sets and Returns Back to its Place.
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Ecclesiastes 1:5 says that:
"And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place"
Here the different Bible versions tell more or less the same. A flagrant contradiction with science and Galileo? No, because it refers to the apparent movement of the sun, in a common sense language. Even in physics we study these kind of phenomena. Did you still remember the relative movements and speeds? Yes, indeed it is science, but we have to change the referential, setting the earth as referential, which we often forget to do...
Example 3: the Earth Has Pillars?
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Job 9:6 says that:
"He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble."
According to my Bible of Jerusalem, the pillars are not supporting the planet earth in the vacuum, but they are rather the magma pillars that sustain the earth's surface... yes, we have to be very careful with interpretations, when science and bible apparently oppose, because bad interpretations may lead us, believers, to fall easily in the ridiculous...
The Earth In the Center of the Universe?
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The planet earth may even be the center of the Universe for God: not that the earth be located geographically in the center of the universe and all universe turn around the earth, but in a non literal sense: the only inhabited planet in the universe is the earth, and as consequence, the only one which is the center of all attentions for God. Please note that Extra terrestrials do not exist, said Our Lady and Jesus in New York.
Curiosities
Earth Flat or Round? 4 Corners?
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Example 1: the Earth Has Four Corners?
The earth has indeed four corners, while being approximately spherical: Alaska, Terra del Fuego, Eastern Siberia and New Zealand. There's, thus, no contradiction. The 4 corners of the earth are mentioned, for instance in Rev 20:8 or Job 38:13...
Example 2: the Vault or the Circle of the Earth?
If we take a good interpretation of Isaiah 40:22, this time through the Bible of the Vatican, we could have discovered more than 2.000 years ago that the earth is approximately spherical:
"He sits enthroned above the vault of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers."
But be careful, other Bibles say:
"He who sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, the inhabitants of which are like grasshoppers"
A vault/sphere contains necessarily circles on its surface, but this evil interpretation leads easily to misinterpretations, contradictions, flat earths etc.
Israel, the Navel of the Earth?
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According to Ez 38:12, Israel is located in the Navel (~center) of the Earth, by the time of the war of Gog and Magog:
Ez 38:12: "You will come to plunder and loot and turn your might against the ruins they live in, against this people gathered back from the nations, these stock-breeders and traders who live at the Navel of the World."
Since the geographical location of the heart of Israel, Jerusalem, don't change with time (although the borders of Israel may change), we can take Jerusalem as reference. If we take the 4 diagonals from the 4 corners of the world (please refer to previous section, concerning the 4 corners of the world), indeed they cross near the region of Israel/Jerusalem... Ezekiel knew that Jerusalem was the navel/center of the earth already about 2600 years ago...
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