Geocentrism

This topic collects Bible verses used in the past to support geocentrism, the belief that the sun and other planets revolve around a stationary earth, and related ideas that were later disproved by science.

Earth is flat

Isa 11:12; Rev 7:1

Earth doesn’t move

1Ch 16:30; Ps 93:1; 96:10; 104:5; Isa 14:7

Sun and planets move through sky

Ex 17:12; Jos 10:12–13; Ps 19:4–6; Ecc 1:5; Isa 38:8–9; Hab 3:11

Sky is a rigid dome (or “firmament”)

Ge 1:6–8, 14–15, 17, 20; Job 37:18; Ps 19:1; 150:1; Pr 8:28; Eze 1:22–23, 25–26; 10:1; Dan 12:3

Windows in firmament let rain through

Ge 7:11; 8:2

Value of π is 3

1Ki 7:23 (cf. 2Ch 4:2)

Uncategorized

Ex 20:4; Job 26:7; Ps 136:6–7; Isa 13:10; 40:22; 42:5; 54:24; 58:13; Jer 31:35–36; Ac 2:20