Did God Say the Earth is the Center of the Universe?

This one is pretty funny too since the bible NEVER said
the earth is the center of the universe, yet it's often 
claimed that the bible says it...

It doesn't.

There is not one statement in the bible saying the planet
earth is the center of the universe.

None.

The planet earth being described as the center of the 
universe was promoted by the Alexandrian astronomer
and mathematician Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. In 
Ptolemy's system, the earth is at the center of spheres
having stars and such attached to them that rotate 
around the earth. Ptolemy based his system on earlier 
work from Aristotle, while Aristotle built on theories 
from Eudoxus and Callippus. Later on in the 16th 
century, Copernicus suggested a helio-centric or sun 
centered universe. 

Newton later described Ptolemy's prior work in astronomy 
as doing science, and called Ptolemy a scientist, but 
also claimed that Ptolemy had committed fraud in the data 
he took. Regardless, Ptolemy's work remained a reference 
text for astronomy, promoting a geocentric universe for 
the next 1400 years after he died.

Neither Ptolemy nor Copernicus were right, nor were
Aristotle, Eudoxus, or Callippus before them. Both 
Ptolomy and Copernicus were astronomers or "science 
of the day", both were wrong... the earth is NOT the 
center of the universe, and neither is the sun. 

Hence, science promoted incorrect theories for 
CENTURIES where blame for those theories being wrong 
is then often times placed on the bible... yet the 
bible NEVER said it. In fact, in Job, God told Job 
that Elihu was WRONG about the "solid glass sky dome", 
and said that they didn't understand from the 
"foundations of the earth"... described in Genesis, 
the solar system's formation. 

Clearly God knew science was wrong long BEFORE science 
knew it.

Mean while, as was pointed out in other articles, 
God had in fact already accurately described planet 
formation in our solar system in Genesis, Job, Ezekiel,
and Isaiah, centuries before Ptolemy or Copernicus, 
and THOUSANDS OF YEARS before present day science.

God made it all, Jesus died for our sins.

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