Everyone assumed, that thought about it, that the sun went around the earth. Because it looked like it did. But it really doesn’t. It looks the same under both models. It should have been 50-50. Half of the cultures would be wrong and the other half would be right. Instead it was 100% wrong.
Humanity is many things, humble is not one of them. Of course our God would concern itself with us. The only shocking thing is at least once one of those bronze age writers asked “what is man that thou are mindful of him?”. A tiny moment of insight to how absurd the story really is.
Everyone assumed, that thought about it, that the sun went around the earth. Because it looked like it did. But it really doesn’t. It looks the same under both models. It should have been 50-50. Half of the cultures would be wrong and the other half would be right. Instead it was 100% wrong.
Humanity is many things, humble is not one of them. Of course our God would concern itself with us. The only shocking thing is at least once one of those bronze age writers asked “what is man that thou are mindful of him?”. A tiny moment of insight to how absurd the story really is.