Originally Posted by
Quest
There are quite a few others they use...are you convinced they are twisting it? (devil's advocate at this point)
Go to your Strong's and keep two things in mind because I know you like to study words and their varied usage to get to the heart of a passage..
1. When the scriptures were written the Hebrew language had no scientific terminology that compared to the advanced science of today.
2. There are two Hebrew words and neither are conclusively 'sphere'..in fact from the quick search I did they are both used interchangeably.
3. This I went to last night to disprove this and could not...Joshua spoke to the sun and the moon and commanded them to stand still...
From the earliest passage on the sun there are MANY that depict the sun 'rising' 'setting' 'moving'.
So in order to find a legitimate and conclusive argument I came out here..because I have not found one yet..and in order, IMHO, to do that I have to take a neutral position of possibility...that is the only way to be objective and I believe objectivity is the only way to clearly prove or disprove anything..