Sermons

Those ancient magi- however many there actually were- were intelligent, inquiring people who did the best they could with the world-view of the times. Like the very writers of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures who were their contemporaries, they believed in a flat-earth universe in which all heavenly bodies rotated around us- all part of God’s ultimate, spontaneous creation. The primitive science of the day was built on those misconceptions, and so was the Bible. Scripture and science. God has always spoken through both mediums. Unfortunately, believing the Bible to be inflexible and scientifically faulty- many scientists have discarded the Bible’s truths along with its outmoded scientific worldview. And just as sadly, many Biblical folks have never considered that scientific revelation was another valid form of divine inspiration. So they force themselves to live with a Biblical worldview of a flat earth that was created in six days a few millennia ago. Like it or not, those viewpoints are widespread.

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