{"id":14151,"date":"2023-09-01T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:40:16","slug":"the-two-luminaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14151\/the-two-luminaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Luminaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Pastor John,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before Copernicus (I guess), men knew the two heavenly lights described in the book of Genesis were moving in and out of our sight, traversing some heavenly path carved out for them above the flat plane beneath our feet.\u00a0 Or at least that the two luminaries were orbiting our stationary sphere &#8211; for those undecided about the shape.\u00a0 But no one ever dreamed (I don&#8217;t think) of declaring Earth to be some kind of displaced rock hurling through space as incidental dust, the way evolutionists do.\u00a0 As you once said, Pastor John, about such evolutionary thinking, &#8220;It can&#8217;t be, because it leaves out the love of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I think men were full of wisdom, once, to recognize they were surrounded by a creation.\u00a0 But that, like so many other truths, is now hidden from men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I loved your photos of the moon over the ocean.\u00a0 Almost as brilliant as the sun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Before Copernicus (I guess), men knew the two heavenly lights described in the book of Genesis were moving in and out of our sight, traversing some heavenly path carved out for them above the flat plane beneath our feet.\u00a0 Or at least that the two luminaries were orbiting our stationary sphere &#8211; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}