Greg Anderson

Cheryl,

I think it’s only fair to ask ourselves where Biblical literalism as stand alone truth ends and where poetic imagery begins.

For example, the account given in Joshua 10:12-14 and with apparent repetition in Psalm 19, was used for centuries as proof positive that the sun, stars, and planets all revolve around the earth.

We know today that geocentrism is simply not true. Not because we dug something out of Scripture to show that it’s not true, but because repeatable experiments and observations have shown that it’s not true.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I believe the Genesis account of God’s majesty and power, but I do not believe that the sun stood still for Joshua because the sun has never revolved around the earth. I believe that God stopped the earth’s axial motion for a day and used poetic imagery to describe it.