Question:
I wish you would explain Ecclesiastes 1:5. I have always understood that the earth revolved around the sun.
Answer:
“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose,” is simply the language of appearance. All the scientific men of the day use the same expression in speaking of “sunrise” and “sunset.” The scientists of our day tell us that neither the sun nor the earth stands still but that both are moving on through space, the sun with all its attendant planets, while relatively—that is, in their relation to each other—the sun stands still and the earth revolves around it.
Eternity will solve many problems over which science still prattles in its infantile imaginations and imperfect calculations.
