The sun rises, and the sun sets— And glides back to where it
rises. (Ecclesiastes 1:5)
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A major scientific error found in the supposed inspired word of God. What makes it worse is, this saying comes from
Solomon the son of King David. The same Solomon whom the God of Israel gave “wisdom
and understanding”, which no man had ever received (1 kings 10:23). The question is, how could a man of such
wisdom by God, make such a scientific error? If we are to accept, 1 Kings 10:23
as Solomon being the wised man on earth through his prayer to God, which he
granted as found in 1 Kings 3:5-9, then how could Solomon erroneous statement? This
would mean, Yahweh who initially gave Solomon his wisdom was wrong
This would mean, not only did Yahweh give Solomon false information, he
also wasn’t aware of his “own creation”, i.e. the celestial planets and the
body of planets and their movements. The traditional teaching heliocentricism is in
conflict with Ecclesiastes 1:5. It will be highly unorthodox to claim
that, Ecclesiastes 1:5 is not a literal statement
rather metaphoric, purely to cover up what the God of Israel really thought of
the sun and its movement. The idea that
the sun rises and sets, then hurries or glides back to where it rises, has no
basis in the real world of science. The author of the Bible i.e. God should have
known that.
The Earth revolves around the sun. the sun does not revolve around the
earth nor does it hurry back to where it rises. How could the God of Israel
make such a blunder? Also, the church used this argument in Galileo’s day causing a
lengthy trial and undue punishment
Even Classical Jewish Rabbis understood this verse as the sun literally
moving about the earth.
As it is
stated: “The sun
also rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place, where it rises
again. It goes toward the south,
and turns about to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on
its circuits the wind returns” (Ecclesiastes 1:5–6). The verse is
understood as describing the sun’s movements, as follows: “It goes toward the south” during the day,
“and turns about to the north,” on the outside of the
firmament, at night. “Round and
round goes the wind [ruaḥ] and the
wind returns again to its circuits”; as
the word ruaḥ can
also mean direction or side, Rabbi Yehoshua explains that these are the face of the east and the face
of the west. Sometimes, in the short winter days, the sun turns about them without being
seen, and sometimes, in
the long summer days, it traverses
them visibly. (Talmud Bava Batra 25b:2)
It’s amazing how Christians have the
audacity to attack Muslims scriptures, yet have no idea that their own Bible is
filled with erroneous statement. Thus from
the Bible itself and classical understanding, we can conclude the God of Israel
was wrong about the sun, that it moves back and forth around the earth.
