1 Chronicles 16:30: Does the Bible Say That The Earth Doesn’t Move?

This seems to be a deal breaker to to some Christians. I have be warning people here about this, when people take their hostility to an historical Adam and Eve too far.

I believe in an historical Adam and Eve. It is not a deal breaker for me. But I do think this is a more meaningful understanding of the story. And there is certainly no reason to come to a conclusion that these individuals did not exist from evolution.

I have been looking over all the uses of the Hebrew in the Bible and I think this translation of the word does work in all of them. It is not the majority translation and in Psalm 104 it comes with the word מְכוֹנֶ֑יהָ or foundations comparing the earth to a building. But even in that, a good argument can be made that this about making something which lasts rather than something which does not move. And anyway in modern physics there is not absolute rest or motion. Motion is relative and depends entirely on what reference frame you choose.

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