The Scientific Universe And The Shift In Religious Scholar Beliefs
I can just imagine how a man such as Galileo must have felt.
He was not stupid and his observations and calculations told him the heavenly bodies moved and that they circle around the sun and not the earth.
However the church told everyone the earth is the center of the Universe.
In the end Galileo died, a silenced man, although he was right and they were wrong.
The Biblical Predicament Bible scholars have always been a fanatic bunch of people.
Not to say this is right ore wrong but merely stating that they had always been defending what the church told them to defend.
Sadly this was not always the truth.
The leaders did not even know they were wrong.
Some people would be surprised at what they believed ten or twenty years ago.
Good thing is they will not even remember when and why they shifted their views on certain sins.
They will now defend the new ideas with the same vigour that they defended the total opposite viewpoints many years ago.
But what about the church? Universal Knowledge The Universe is an enormous vast and mostly obscure place, and in the book Genesis the bible story of creation and the scientific views of the Universe can be connected.
It is in this tale that church leaders saw certain things which differ from what scientists see today.
Did the church leaders have it wrong, was the bible merely a fairytale? Personally I say they had only interpreted it the wrong way and thus had to defend their statements, never realizing they were wrong.
How could they have know? This would take 2000 years to become a discussion when science advanced enough to prove what it preached and that in many cases would have been heresy a mere fifty years ago The Future In discussions with religious leaders you soon realize the church have split into two groups.
The one group still defends a literal interpretation of Genesis, but the second group have already accepted that they need to look at fresh interpretations of the bible.
Not to change the bible, but to change their interpretations of what the bible really said and meant and to adjust this so it can incorporate the new scientific evidence instead of being afraid that it will undermine the word of God.
The new church is not what it was 2000 years ago where the bible is seen as the final and ultimate word of God, human inventions such as the Hubble telescope appeared to prove that human views slipped into the writing process.
However, when church leaders look at the bible with new insight, they realize they had interpreted certain texts and words wrongly.
Genesis was not wrong after all, their interpretation of Genesis was.
Suddenly the God they worship becomes bigger instead of absolute and they can use the word The Big Bang Theory from the pulpit without being labelled as heretics.
If the church wants to stay relevant they need to incorporate basic Astronomy into their teachings and need to familiarize themselves with the basics that govern this discipline in order to educate the devotees.
If not, the leaders might make a paradigm shift themselves but they will loose the support of their devotees and find a wave of resistance from the older generation they themselves educated.
Soon they will be modern day Galileo's accused of heresy by their own followers and find themselves literally in a wilderness between the devil and the deep dark universe.
He was not stupid and his observations and calculations told him the heavenly bodies moved and that they circle around the sun and not the earth.
However the church told everyone the earth is the center of the Universe.
In the end Galileo died, a silenced man, although he was right and they were wrong.
The Biblical Predicament Bible scholars have always been a fanatic bunch of people.
Not to say this is right ore wrong but merely stating that they had always been defending what the church told them to defend.
Sadly this was not always the truth.
The leaders did not even know they were wrong.
Some people would be surprised at what they believed ten or twenty years ago.
Good thing is they will not even remember when and why they shifted their views on certain sins.
They will now defend the new ideas with the same vigour that they defended the total opposite viewpoints many years ago.
But what about the church? Universal Knowledge The Universe is an enormous vast and mostly obscure place, and in the book Genesis the bible story of creation and the scientific views of the Universe can be connected.
It is in this tale that church leaders saw certain things which differ from what scientists see today.
Did the church leaders have it wrong, was the bible merely a fairytale? Personally I say they had only interpreted it the wrong way and thus had to defend their statements, never realizing they were wrong.
How could they have know? This would take 2000 years to become a discussion when science advanced enough to prove what it preached and that in many cases would have been heresy a mere fifty years ago The Future In discussions with religious leaders you soon realize the church have split into two groups.
The one group still defends a literal interpretation of Genesis, but the second group have already accepted that they need to look at fresh interpretations of the bible.
Not to change the bible, but to change their interpretations of what the bible really said and meant and to adjust this so it can incorporate the new scientific evidence instead of being afraid that it will undermine the word of God.
The new church is not what it was 2000 years ago where the bible is seen as the final and ultimate word of God, human inventions such as the Hubble telescope appeared to prove that human views slipped into the writing process.
However, when church leaders look at the bible with new insight, they realize they had interpreted certain texts and words wrongly.
Genesis was not wrong after all, their interpretation of Genesis was.
Suddenly the God they worship becomes bigger instead of absolute and they can use the word The Big Bang Theory from the pulpit without being labelled as heretics.
If the church wants to stay relevant they need to incorporate basic Astronomy into their teachings and need to familiarize themselves with the basics that govern this discipline in order to educate the devotees.
If not, the leaders might make a paradigm shift themselves but they will loose the support of their devotees and find a wave of resistance from the older generation they themselves educated.
Soon they will be modern day Galileo's accused of heresy by their own followers and find themselves literally in a wilderness between the devil and the deep dark universe.
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