If I were a member of a cannibalistic tribe, raised believing that meat is meat, I would find nothing objectionable in feasting on a well covered, juicy neighbour, though normally I would feast on my enemies.
Who must be also able to create Evil, if this creator is “All-powerful”
I would suspect that you are wrong because I’ve never heard any Catholic priest state that the earth is the center of the universe, and in every Catholic school that I know about, they teach that the earth revolves about the sun. Can you give those Catholic colleges and universities which teach geocentrism?
What papal decree?
Sid, why, if you are to respond, do you not do so with some sort of chronology. I say above the Church does teach ‘G’ by virtue of the 1616 papal decree defining it is revealed in Scripture. This was further taught in 1633 and in 1664. Given there was never an abrogation the teaching still stands LEGALLY.
The Authority of the Anti-Copernican Inquisition
That’s not a papal decree.
Actually, Since God said in the beginning, looking at ALL He had created, and therefore is eternally saying it in His, one, eternal, infinite, always in the present, tense thought, “It is good, very good”; therefore there is no created evil. There never can be anything created that is evil in it’s nature. Sin is evil in that sin is a turning away from God, a choice of rejecting His grace. But sin is not a created thing, it is a choice we can make with our free wills. Therefore sin, the absence of goodness or grace, is not a created thing, therefore God did not, (could not) create evil.If I were a member of a cannibalistic tribe, raised believing that meat is meat, I would find nothing objectionable in feasting on a well covered, juicy neighbour, though normally I would feast on my enemies.
Who must be also able to create Evil, if this creator is “All-powerful”
You seem to be implying that there is nothing absolutely, objectively, morally wrong or evil in shooting your neighbors son because there is more meat on his bones than the small deer, BUT, you did not say it explicitly. Why not? Your statement could be understood to mean,"I know it is absolutely wrong and evil to kill my neighbors son, but I choose not to be concerned with that fact I know." If you believe it is absolutely, objectively morally wrong and evil; say so. If you are not aware of any hypothetical action by anyone that you know would be absolutely, objectively, morally wrong and evil; **just say so.** (This of coarse includes lying to people or deliberately keeping information from them that would likely help them out)If everyone in the Catholic Church teaches that geocentrism is wrong, and what you say is true, that geocentrism is correct, then would that not be contrary to the teaching of the indefectibility of the Roman Catholic Church?
Can you verify for us as to why it is bad science to assert that the planets revolve about the sun?
Heliocentrism states that the sun is stationary at the center of the universe.
No, this is not so as far as I know. Please see:
I have to disagree with your last statemen. "It can only be inferred from these sentences that the earth is fixed at the centre of the world". What is the proof that a simpler summation of those biblical references could not be, “The earth is where I put it.” If God put all creation in motion and by His unbreakable laws moves every proton, neutron, and electron and quark and … according to His preordained plan, does that have our infinitely powerful God putting the earth exactly where He wants it at all times, but also the entire universe? every meteor, comet, seashell, lightning strike, hailstone, etc, etc. is exactly where He has eternally ordained they should be, and no one can move them from where He saysthey will beand when they will be there.
God is eternal.
Heliocentrism:
If God did not create "evil’, though he says he did, (read Isaiah 45) where does evil come from? Did man create evil by disobeying God’s commands? If so then God did not create everything. Now, it is true that God said that everything he created was “good”, but when he created man he upgraded it to “very good”. At the time he didn’t realize what a mess his creation would make and by Gen.6 he had repented that he had made man. This was not the first time he made a cods up in the creation department. He created the angels and got a rebellion on his hands. Later on, by not learning from his mistakes, he makes Israel his favourites and they repaid him by worshiping a golden calf. Again he plans to get rid of them and start anew with Moses. Fortunately for Israel Moses talked some sense into him and he agreed not to destroy the whole caboodle, It’s all in the Bible
“Eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear”. I implied nothing. All I stated is that if I was a cannibal my conscience would not prick me for eating another human being. Their moral code is different than the one Western man goes by. The Chinese eat dogs, you don’t, so it is all relative to how one is brought up and what type of society one is part of.
The point is clear that heliocentric can refer to a model of the solar system in which the planets revolve about the sun.
this is nonsense. Where is your proof of this.
That’s true, but it’s only part of Heliocentrism. Galileo taught that the sun was the center of the universe, not just the solar system. Further, even if you limit heliocentrism to mean a heliocentric universe Galileo was still unwarranted in proclaiming it as truth as he was unable to prove it as the equipment required to measure parallax shift and demonstrate it didn’t exist until long after his death. Galileo was instructed not to teach heliocentrism as fact, but only as supposition which he could not prove.
No it does not. That was one possibility I investigated over the years. The indefectibility of the Church guarantees that the Church will never define an article of faith or morals that will be proven false. It also guarantees that no official act of the Church will be shown wrong or that the Church will contradict itself.