Signor Galileo,
My brother in Christ, I am writing to you as Regent of the Holy mother church, but also as a flawed common man. I am in possession of a copy of the letter you wrote to Duchess Christina, and after reading it I was left confounded by your imaginative creativity, and simultaneously stupefied by not only your sheer arrogance, but your disdain and utmost disregard for the Church and its authority. Not only do your words border on heresy, but also it is apparent that your soul is in danger of damnation. It is my duty as a brother of the cloth to prevent you from moving down a path, which only ends in hell. The purpose of this letter is not to counter or attack specific mathematical hypotheses that you posit or practice you …show more content…
Hence, God through his infinite wisdom crafted his words in such a way in which the layperson may understand. You say that in Joshua 10:13, in which “God stops the Sun in the sky” should not be literally interpreted. You go on to say that what the bible says about nature does not accord with what you see in the real world, and that science, observation, and our senses take precedence.
Is it plausible to believe that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being who knew the number of hairs on your head would include words that could later be misconstrued in a text intended to last for generations? Do you think that a middle-aged man from the Duchy of Florence foresaw problems that God did not foresee?
What you fail to understand my dear Brother Galileo, is that if the Church allows you to interpret the bible as you see fit, it becomes a slippery slope. Once that precedent has been set, what can stop someone from saying that Christ’s crucifixion, the virgin birth, or the miracles of raising Lazarus from the dead were all simply metaphors? Once this happens, the Church will crumble and its intended raison d’etre, saving souls, cannot be accomplished as
My brother in Christ, I am writing to you as Regent of the Holy mother church, but also as a flawed common man. I am in possession of a copy of the letter you wrote to Duchess Christina, and after reading it I was left confounded by your imaginative creativity, and simultaneously stupefied by not only your sheer arrogance, but your disdain and utmost disregard for the Church and its authority. Not only do your words border on heresy, but also it is apparent that your soul is in danger of damnation. It is my duty as a brother of the cloth to prevent you from moving down a path, which only ends in hell. The purpose of this letter is not to counter or attack specific mathematical hypotheses that you posit or practice you …show more content…
Hence, God through his infinite wisdom crafted his words in such a way in which the layperson may understand. You say that in Joshua 10:13, in which “God stops the Sun in the sky” should not be literally interpreted. You go on to say that what the bible says about nature does not accord with what you see in the real world, and that science, observation, and our senses take precedence.
Is it plausible to believe that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being who knew the number of hairs on your head would include words that could later be misconstrued in a text intended to last for generations? Do you think that a middle-aged man from the Duchy of Florence foresaw problems that God did not foresee?
What you fail to understand my dear Brother Galileo, is that if the Church allows you to interpret the bible as you see fit, it becomes a slippery slope. Once that precedent has been set, what can stop someone from saying that Christ’s crucifixion, the virgin birth, or the miracles of raising Lazarus from the dead were all simply metaphors? Once this happens, the Church will crumble and its intended raison d’etre, saving souls, cannot be accomplished as