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Passionately Defending False Views

Oh dear! For His Glory and My Good has posted a YouTube clip of a man on a foreign version of Who Wants to be A Millionaire. He is asked the question, "What revolves around the earth? The Sun, The Moon, Venus or Jupiter. After asking the audience, who was fairly evenly split between "The Sun" and "The Moon," he answered "The Sun."
WOW!!! How very Aristotelian of them. Of course, if you think about it, people that rejected Aristotle's geocentric view (that the universe revolved around the earth) were literally ousted from the Catholic Church because the church so firmly believed that Copernicus and Galileo's Heliocentric view (the universe revolves around the Sun) contradicted Scripture... when in fact the Heliocentric model was far more accurate. (This became a religious controversy for many years.)

I write this because even today I find people defending false views so passionately because someone they respect believes that way... instead of checking the facts for themselves. Am I a Berean? Or am I lazy, preferring to just go with the seemingly calm but deceptively tumultuous flow, as I am tossed to and fro by every wind of Doctrine?

Lord God of perfect truth, help me to be a Berean driven by Your example... grace and mercy and love without compromise.

Posted by Lisa on August 30, 2007

Comments

I wouldn't have known this but your pointing it out.

This is my desire toO Lisa. However, I am probably tossed more than I realize. Prayerfully tossed less as I grow in Christ.

Posted by: April | September 1, 2007 03:35 PM

Well, how silly!!! I thought everyone knew it was Venus!! Duh... ;-)

Just another homeschooling mom...
Ramona

Posted by: sheshe | September 1, 2007 05:59 PM

Just to be clear...I didn't realize ARISTOTLE had this view. I DO know that the Moon revolves around the earth and not the sun..sorry and thanks for letting me clear that up.

Posted by: April | September 1, 2007 11:18 PM

It is very interesting to study scientific views of the past and see how many passionate errors there were. Like the earth being flat, etc. The thing is, even the truths in the Bible that are clear are fought over with opposing views for centuries. How can this be? Methinks the Lord God truly displays His long-suffering in all of this.

Posted by: lisa | September 2, 2007 08:22 AM

I remember being totally blown away to learn that just as the sun doesn't revolve around the world, the world doesn't revolve around me, but around God.

Posted by: Cathy in Australia | September 5, 2007 01:16 AM

Cathy... excellent point!!!

Posted by: lisa | September 5, 2007 08:04 AM

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