Re: [asa] Turning back the sun

Jon asks some excellent questions about inerrancy, the Joshua story, and how
one ought to understand it.

I recently wrote an as-yet unpublished essay about modern geocentrists, and
they do see God's words "and the sun stood still, and the moon stayed," as
literal descriptions of reality that can't be read allegorically without
undermining the truthfulness of God's WORD = God's very words, etc. (you all
probably know how the argument then goes). They even reject the principle
of accommodation, even as Calvin himself used it on occasion in a
non-Copernican framework (Calvin, if he'd ever heard of Copernicus, doesn't
talk about him).

To see their arguments first hand, I recommend this URL:
http://www.geocentricity.com/astronomy_of_bible/jld/index.html

To see how one might approach the passage with modern science in mind, I
recommend the work by Maunder, a leading astronomer 100 years ago, that is
cited in the notes to this URL. Not necessarily the last word, but a good
word. Maunder's stuff made it into the old ISBE, if I recall correctly, and
might even still be in the recent edition.

Ted

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Received on Thu Sep 27 16:14:44 2007