I believe in God and the Bible. But I feel that God's revelation of the creation to Moses does not reflect the full truth since language has come a long way since the time of Moses. The word count of the Hebrew language was much lower then than English and many modern languages have now. So I feel that Moses did the best he could to relate the revelation to his people that God gave him using the tools at hand. Of course there is still much that we can learn of the nature of the relationship of God's creation to its Creator by studying the Genesis story, but I do not see Genesis 1 as a science lesson.
No, our universe is not confined to a dome with the sun describing a circle around the equator with gradually decreasing or increasing circles depending on the seasons...
No, I am not on NASA's payroll. I repair equipment in a cookie factory... a very science oriented job to be sure, but nothing to do with space. That's just my hobby.
The Bible is my roadmap to my relationship with God with Jesus as my savior. The Bible is not a science textbook, but rather a guide for wisdom about how to treat my fellow man and how very much God loves me and the rest of humankind (refer to John 3:16&17 for starters... but I won't do your research for you. )
The solar system holds influence over me as far as what clothes I wear based upon season and location on the globe, but that's about it.
Yes,, I agree that we have a creator that we call "God",,, Perhaps we are all a part of this entity and separated from the consciousness of the " one" in order that we are able to create and discover new boundaries of our virtual existence,, virtual being the key word...
As for Christianity? Well, That's another story isn't it?
Yes,,, the clouds do look lovely when they are illuminated below,, Have you learned the concept of refraction yet?
Perhaps it may do you well to research what you say completely and not rely on others to do it for you. 😉 Even if it is just your hobby... I have been on the trail of lies and deception for 30 years now and not in the habit of cherry picking my information..
If you use the bible as your roadmap,, may I suggest that you stick to the early king James version as this is the closest available to the true scriptures,,, from there, the bible messages have been doctored quite badly and can be very misleading.
I think that you fail to understand that if we are made to believe that we just randomly popped up out of a pool of gloop on a spinning ball in a vast void of space and then evoluted from monkeys, That would also make us believe in our souls that we are an accident....
I really do not subscribe to that suggestion in any way as this would negate the god you believe in....
We do have a creator, That creator is you and me and everything else on this plane,t that possesses DNA strand,,,
All the information within our "universe", or Ether, is contained within the DNA that communicates constantly with the world we live in. Our everyday consciousness has no knowledge of the vastness, we only operate on what we have learned in our lifetimes... A cellular biologist by the name of Bruce Lipton will explain it for you quite clearly how exactly our DNA is a tranciever for this information..
You have a nice day at the biscuit factory....