The Sun Doesn't Orbit?

The Sun Doesn't Orbit?


In The Bible the Sun rises then sets, then rises again as if it jumped out of a sun/hole.

 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. (KJB, Ecclesiastes 1:5)

According to NASA, The Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are moving at an average velocity of 828,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. We believe that it consists of a central bulge, 4 major arms, and several shorter arm segments. The Sun (and, of course, the rest of our solar system) is located near the Orion arm, between two major arms (Perseus and Sagittarius). The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years and the Sun is located about 28,000 light-years from the Galactic Center. You can see a drawing of the Milky Way below which shows what our Galaxy would look like "face-on" and the direction in which it would spin as viewed from that vantage point. Also shown, is the location of the Sun in the big picture view of our Galaxy.

It is interesting to note that recent observations by astronomers suggest that the Milky Way is in fact a "barred spiral galaxy", not just a "spiral galaxy". This means that rather than a simple spherical bulge of gas and stars at its center, it has instead a "bar of stars" crossing the central bulge. It might look something like the image shown below of the barred spiral galaxy known as NGC1073. But we still rotate around the center just the same. 

Astronomers have calculated that it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way. In other words, that last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. in fact, this Sun orbit has only happened 20.4 times since the Sun itself formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Since the Sun is 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, it has to travel at an astonishing speed of 782,000 km/hour in a circular orbit around the Milky Way center. Just for comparison, the Earth is rotating at a speed of 1,770 km/h, and it’s moving at a speed of 108,000 km/h around the Sun.
It’s estimated that the Sun will continue fusing hydrogen for another 7 billon years or so. In other words, it only has another 31 orbits it can make before it runs out of fuel.

Christians present the following in order to refute the statement above.


“It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.” – (Psalms 19:6) 

However this raises three serious issues, Firstly, being that it came from the Old Testament which many Christians tend to run away from. 

The second, when we read the previous verses it also states that:


 “Yet their voice[a] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.” (Psalms 19:4-5)  

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Means a tent.

and last but not least, it claims that the Earth has ends. Which supports the "Flat Earth" notion as our current discoveries have stated that the Earth is a Spheroid and Spheres do not have "ends". 

Is it not that they claim The Old Testament to be purely obsolete ? (which only creates more Questions) The New Testament fails to provide any verses regarding The Sun’s orbit and they ignorantly run back to The Old Testament only when it has something they’re looking for. This further exposes that their cherry picking knows no limits. 

The New Testament Bible also fails to mention the moon’s orbit as we all know the Lunar orbits around the earth in a total of 27 days.
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It also declared that the Earth can never move as it is fixed on pillars. As I have discussed in another post on this website. (Click here to see) 

In conclusion, 

The Bible contradicts itself by reasoning that the sun comes out of  a sort of hole but also takes a circuit in a pitched tent. 

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