... could be unhampered in their belief that God created the world six thousand years ago, that the earth is the centre of the universe, that under the earth there is hell, that God came down upon earth and then flew back to heaven, and so forth, they... The Christian Teaching - Page 6by graf Leo Tolstoy - 1898 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
| Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...suns ? " " Perhaps the first time such an idea entered into their heads was, when it was discovered that the earth is not the centre of the universe, but only a very small portion of it." " Universe ! I don't understand what that is at all: astronomy is so very... | |
| graf Leo Tolstoy - 1904 - 608 pages
...then flew back to heaven, and so forth, they can no longer believe in it, because they know for sure that the world has existed, not six thousand, but...earth is not the centre of the universe, but only a very small planet in comparison with other celestial bodies, and they know that there can be nothing... | |
| graf Leo Tolstoy - 1904 - 570 pages
...then flew back to heaven, and so forth, they can no longer believe in it, because they know for sure that the world has existed, not six thousand, but...earth is not the centre of the universe, but only a very small planet in comparison with other celestial bodies, and they know that there can be nothing... | |
| University of North Dakota - 1913 - 408 pages
...beliefs have now become impossible, because men know that the world has existed not six thousand years, but hundreds of thousands of years, that the earth is not the center of the universe, but only a planet small in comparison with our heavenly bodies, that there... | |
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