We KNOW it revolves around the Sun so clearly there is a problem with you thinking God is limited because you seem to think he can't fulfill the creation of the Earth in the order that he wrote it down in Genesis and create light afterwards.
Except you're statements contradict scripture, which you clung to with a vengeance as the sole source of christian authority in past discussions. So you're saying now scripture is wrong? It can't be both. I also believe in the writings of the early church fathers, who do not agree with the ball earth-revolves-around-the-sun theories either. Scripture conflicts with ball earth and heliocentric theories.
Also the Bible was written by men in their own language in a time when they couldn't even know the extent of the Earth or map it. The Bible clearly intimates in various places that some things are beyond our comprehension. We have learnt a few things since the Bible was written. People try and apply our modern western thought processes to it like it's a science textbook. It can still be true in its own way.
No I'm saying scripture is not a science textbook. It can still be correct in its own way. In a way that may be a mystery to us. Do you believe in mysteries? I think you said you do. We will understand when we get to heaven. I am saying that scripture is correct and it happened as it said yet the Earth revolves around the Sun. It's up to you to work out how God did it or not. Find out when you get to heaven.
I don't think I've said anything that contradicts scripture. We interpret it differently.
It's not that I don't care what you believe, it just doesn't bother me that you think differently than me. That seems to have been a problem for people in this thread. My "evidence" and their "evidence" are two different things. It's kind of an impasse.
Yet you cannot view the backside of the moon. It's appearance is that of a disc.
This is satan's world. He has conspired to deceive people into believing heliocentric theories of pagan origin. He has even convinced many people there is no God.
The pictures never materialize as anything convincing to me. They are always altered. Or composites. Color enhanced.
We can see some of the backside of the Moon at the edges with our own eyes on Earth due to our relative orbits and parallax we can see more than 50% of the moon at various points in time.
Something is either correct or not correct. Now you bend it to your will for a secular discussion when previously used exact wording to defend your religious one. You are being inconsistent. Either the bible is authoritative and true, or it's just, as you said "the way people wrote it as they understood it" i.e written by obviously misguided and ignorant ancient man.
What people? I quit facebook in 2012. I wouldn't believe anything I saw posted to that site.
In past debates thumb considers his interpretation authoritative and absolute. Good to see a little humility here.
The leap of faith for a physicist is to believe all that stuff (matter) existed in the first place for no reason.I believe in carbon dating, telescopes, inner galactic dust, red shifts, supernova, black holes, worm holes, quantum physics, Pangea, evolution, natural selection, and the formation of limestone over millions of years of sea levels rising and falling. Tide pools kicked things off. And some lighting and an asteroid or two. So not a leap of faith at all for me
My whole life ( and you may recall I went to a parochial school until 8th grade) I understood instinctively that evolution and the origins of the universe were not incompatible with creationism.
That's pretty much my view.
If natural selection got us here and I'm not saying it 100% did or didn't, there is still nothing to say that the system of natural selection wasn't by intelligent design.