Armstrong's Book Explores Oklahoma Candidate's Presidential Run?
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A candidate would likely face challenges from the national press on the relevance of the Bible to modern science. What is received well in the 'Bible belt' might not play so well nationally for a hypothetical Oklahoma governor Robert Jones, Jane Doe, or a Roger Wilson Smith facing a 2016 or 2020 presidential election?
'Gotcha' Questions for Christian Politicians:
The recently released book So ~ You're a Christian Politician? by author Carl Armstrong explores reporters' gotcha questions. How could a Christian candidate possibly defend the church's stand against Galileo's scientific knowledge of astronomy? An excerpt from the book covering Governor R.W. Smith's hypothetical candidacy announcement at the Oklahoma State University Aviation and Space Campus follows here. The reporter is stunned by the Governor's answer to his question.
Excerpt from Book:
"Reporter: Governor Smith, I can understand that you chose this campus for your announcement because of its forward looking space program. However, you profess to be a devout Christian—how do you reconcile the current knowledge of space with the archaic flat earth and earth centrist concepts put forth by the church in the Galileo's era? Isn't the Bible a little out of date?
RWS: That is an excellent question and I will answer it by first asking you a question. Look at the large NASA photo of the earth taken from space on the side of this assembly hall. Now, I am going to describe that photo to you and ask you a question about my description of it.
Reporter: OK, please do.
RWS: The earth seems to be hanging on nothing in space. I see white clouds floating just above its surface. I see the circle of the globe as if it were marked out by a compass. I see the boundary between day and night on this beautiful blue marble. Would you say that is an apt description?
Reporter: It seems to be in order, what is your point?
RWS: Now, I'm going to read you a description from a book describing the very earliest phase of space exploration.
- He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth on nothing.
- He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
- He has compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. (JOB 26:7-10)
My question for you is to explain how this amazing description of the earth hanging in space was written in the Bible by the patriarch Job thirty-five hundred years ago? He even wrote about the earth being round (compassed) rather than being flat.
Reporter: I can't explain it—it is sort of amazing."
The book So ~ You're a Christian Politician? may be purchased at these links: Amazon or Barnes and Noble
Media Contact: Author Carl Armstrong; http://WatersofCreativity.com or email: [email protected].
SOURCE Carl Armstrong
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