UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS A POSITION WHICH MANY MODERN Christian Copernicans, even under the guise of “Young Earth” Creationists, now openly confide in—that is, once they’re confronted by the authority of Scripture, which clearly declares that the sun moves and the earth stands fast; not the other way around. To state that the Hebrew writers of the Bible were simply misinformed, or that God didn’t bother to update the curriculum surrounding the depravity of their educational system, being simple-minded goat hearding nomads and all (despite the fact that their neighboring Greeks had no problem imagining a Ball-Earth without God’s help), or that those writers are now suddenly frivolous poets, are all false opinions, and a blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, who is the divine author of the Bible. If the Bible would err in the most easily observable secular and earthly matters, how could it be our guide in matters eternal and spiritual?
“In the beginning God created….” Genesis 1:1
“Inerrancy is nothing less than the affirmation that the Bible, as the Word of God written, is totally true and totally trustworthy.” Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
“The inerrancy of Scripture is an essential and not optional doctrine for the church.” Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
“The total truthfulness of Scripture is claimed because this is what Scripture teaches and without it we are left to our own devices to try to figure who God is and what he has said.” Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. President Emeritus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
“Jesus clearly affirmed the complete truthfulness and reliability of Scripture.” Daniel L. Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
“I believe inspiration guarantees the accuracy of every word in the original language, therefore we should study every word, translate it properly, and understand its meaning and live by it. I also believe that inspiration means the Holy Spirit breathed His presence into every word of scriptures, therefore we ought to read it daily, memorize it, meditate on it and let the life of the Spirit control our life.” Elmer L. Towns, Co-Founder of Liberty University
“Inerrancy is the fundamental of the fundamentals. Only divinely inspired and inerrant Scripture guarantees the truth and authority of the doctrines that flow from them. Only then can the Church rest assured that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.” Joseph M. Holden, President of Veritas Evangelical Seminary.
“The importance of inerrancy generates from the very perfections of the character of God Himself who cannot lie. To say that His Word errs or is imperfect is to blaspheme God Himself who is the Author of His Word.” David Farnell, Senior Professor of New Testament at The Master’s Seminary.
“Jesus said to Nicodemus, ‘If I tell you of earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of heavenly things?’ If we cannot trust the Word of God in earthly matters, matters that we can verify or falsify because they are down here with us, how can we trust the Word of God when it speaks of heavenly and spiritual matters, matters that we cannot verify or falsify because we have not ascended to heaven?” Thomas A. Howe, Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages at Southern Evangelical Seminary
And now for your consideration, those 67 verses…..
Genesis 15:12…… “…and when the sun was going down…”
15:17….. “…when the sun went down…”
19:23….. “The sun was risen upon the earth.”
28:11….. “…because the sun was set….”
32:31….. “…the sun rose….”
Exodus 17:12….. “…until the going down of the sun….”
22:3…… “…if the sun be risen upon him….”
22:26…. “…the sun goeth down….”
Leviticus 22:7…… “…And when the sun is down….”
Numbers 2:3…….. “…toward the rising of the sun….”
Deuteronomy 11:30….. “…the way where the sun goeth down….”
16:6……. “…at the going down of the sun….”
23:11….. “…when the sun is down….”
24:13….. “…when the sun goeth down….”
24:15….. “…neither shall the sun go down….”
Joshua 1:4….. “…the going down of the sun….”
8:29… “…as soon as the sun was down….”
10:12.. “…Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon….”
10:13.. “…and the sun stood still….”
10:27.. “…the time of the going down of the sun….”
12:1…. “…toward the rising of the sun….”
Judges 5:31…. “…as the sun when he goeth down….”
8:13…. “…before the sun was up….”
9:33…. “…as soon as the sun is up….”
14:18…. “…before the sun went down….”
19:14…. “…and the sun went down….”
II Samuel 2:24…. “…the sun went down….”
3:35…. “…till the sun be down….”
23:4….. “…when the sun riseth….”
I Kings 22:36…. “…the going down of the sun….”
I Chronicles 16:30…. “…the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved….”
II Chronicles 18:34…. “…time of the sun going down….”
Job 9:7…. “…commandeth the sun and it riseth not….”
Job 26:7…. “…He hangeth the earth upon nothing….”
Psalm 19:4…. “…tabernacle for the sun….”
19:5 … “…cometh out to run….”
19:6…. “…goes forth in a circle from one end of heaven to the other….”
50:1…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
93:1…. “...the world also is established that it cannot be moved….”
104:19.. “…the sun knoweth his going down….”
104:22.. “…the sun ariseth….”
113:3…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
Ecclesiastes 1:5…. “…The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down and hasteth to the place where he arose….”
Isaiah 13:10…. “…sun shall be darkened in his going….”
38:8…… “…is gone down on the sundial of Ahaz….”
38:8…… “…so the sun returned….”
41:25…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
45:6…… “…from the rising of the sun….”
59:19…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
60:20…. “…the sun shall no more go down….”
Jeremiah 15:9…. “…her sun is gone down while it was yet day….”
Daniel 6:14…. “…going down of the sun….”
Amos 8:9…. “…cause the sun to go down at noon….”
Jonah 4:8…. “…when the sun did arise….”
Micah 3:6…. “…and the sun shall go down….”
Nahum 3:17…. “…when the sun ariseth….”
Habakkuk 3:11…. “…the sun and moon stood still in their habitation….”
Malachi 1:11…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
Matthew 5:45…. “…for He maketh His sun to rise….”
13:6….. “…and when the sun was up….”
Mark 1:32…. “…when the sun did set….”
4:6…… “…when the sun was up….”
16:2…… “…at the rising of the sun….”
Luke 4:40…. “…when the sun was setting….”
Ephesians 4:26…. “…let not the sun go down upon your wrath….”
James 1:11…. “…for the sun is no sooner risen….”
“It is absolutely impossible that a passage of Scripture should intend or endorse false conceptions. The doctrine of the Lord is perfect, says the psalmist. Thy word is truth, says our Lord and Master Christ Himself. What god has inspired, that is correct, that is true, may it concern the way of salvation in a restricted sense, or other things which the Lord has spoken as truth in the Scriptures. What God speaks through the holy men, always complies with the facts, the real condition. If, therefore, it should be the case that that, which we perceive with our senses, or which we know by our reason, were contrary to the Word of God, we must not follow our senses and our reason, but trust in the Scriptures that they are right. God is omniscient; he knows all things. In nature, in history, in all branches of human knowledge he is acquainted with everything a thousand times better than the wisest of men on earth. God cannot err. Our eyes may deceive us, our ears may deceive us, all our senses may deceive us. The reason of the wise and learned on earth often wanders on peculiar and wrong roads, but God’s Word never deceives us. The true, correct, meaning of a Bible-word never leads us to false, erroneous, conceptions. The Bible is always right in all things. It tells the truth about all things of which it records something, for its words are words of the Holy Ghost.” Prof. L. W. Dorn (Syn. Report, Tex., 1910, p. 68f.)
