Calculating the mass of the Earth takes circular reasoning and an assumption based on circumstantial evidence. It falls apart when you try to prove that there's no open space inside the Earth.
Cutting the Link between Mass and Gravity
Who is the Sun?
The sun goest forth in his might? The song of Deborah speaks of the sun as if he's a person, a sentient being. Who are we to say he isn't?
Where is Your Dynamite?
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by …
The Point of the Compass
We think of Earth as down and the sky as up. Heaven above and hell below. Whatever happened on the second day has to allow for the eventual formation of heaven and hell. These aren't spiritual concepts.
A Sea of Glass
Accepting the firmament as a sphere of rigid crystal on the edge of space solves many scriptural and physical problems. The King James Version is the only Bible from which an accurate cosmological model may be deduced.
The Expanse
Conservative Christians have an extensive rationalization for why the KJV is the only Bible you should use. It's tedious and unnecessary. If your Bible doesn't have the word firmament in Genesis 1:6 then it's not a real Bible.
Earnest Expectation
The discipline it took to get through this month deepened my understanding. My earnest expectation is that if I apply the same discipline to writing in February as I did in January then my understanding will deepen more.
Caused to Approach
This is an outline for a message at Danby House. The word chosen occurs in a couple of Jesus' parables: The parable of the vineyard workers in Matthew 20:1-16. The parable of the banquet in Matthew 22:1-14. In both of these passages the Greek word translated as chosen is ἐκλεκτοί - eklektos. The chosen are …
Establish the Work of our Hands
If we commit to fulfill God's minimum expectations, and He promised to meet our needs, then whatever work meets our needs and allows us to fulfill his expectations is the work he established for our hands.
Think on These Things
By the grace of God we're intellectually and physically free. We get to think about whatever we want and decide how we spend our time. There are few constraints but we should be mindful not to squander our freedom.