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THE BIBLICAL ASTRONOMER
CREDO
The Biblical Astronomer was
originally founded in 1971 as the Tychonian Society, on the
premise that the only absolutely trustworthy information about
the origin and purpose of all that exists and happens is given
by God, our Creator and Redeemer, in his infallible, preserved
word, the Holy Bible. All scientific endeavor which does not
accept this revelation from on high without any reservations,
literary, philosophical or whatever, we reject as already
condemned in its unfounded first assumptions.
We believe that the creation
was completed in six twenty-four hour days and that the world
is not older than about six thousand years. We maintain that
the Bible teaches us of an earth that neither rotates daily
nor revolves yearly about the sun; that it is at rest with
respect to the throne of him who called it into existence; and
that hence it is absolutely at rest in the universe.
We affirm that no man is
righteous and so all are in need of salvation, which is the
free gift of God, given by the grace of God, and not to be
obtained through any merit or works of our own. We affirm that
salvation is available only through faith in the shed blood
and finished work of our risen LORD and saviour, Jesus Christ.
Lastly, the reason why we deem
a return to a geocentric astronomy a first apologetic
necessity is that its rejection at the beginning of our Modern
Age constitutes one very important, if not the most important,
cause of the historical development of Bible criticism, now
resulting in an increasingly anti-Christian world in which
atheistic existentialism is preaching a life that is really
meaningless.
To the law and to the
testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them. -- Isaiah 8:20
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