Ben Zartman
Puritan Board Junior
Back to Edwards, if the only thing keeping him from transubstatiation was that he couldn't feel the elements turning to actual flesh and blood, there was something wrong with his theology.
As for one of his reasons for geocentrism, that obviously the earth is still because air isn't rushing past always--well, even modern flat-earth geocentrists admit that the air gets thinner the higher you go--your senses tell you that--and eventually there is no more air. Surely none of them think that the entire universe all the way up to the dark curtain or whatever that comprises the edge contains breathable air! Back then they didn't understand the idea of a vaccuum, so they thought all empty space was filled with "ether," which, ironically, was impossible to feel.
As for one of his reasons for geocentrism, that obviously the earth is still because air isn't rushing past always--well, even modern flat-earth geocentrists admit that the air gets thinner the higher you go--your senses tell you that--and eventually there is no more air. Surely none of them think that the entire universe all the way up to the dark curtain or whatever that comprises the edge contains breathable air! Back then they didn't understand the idea of a vaccuum, so they thought all empty space was filled with "ether," which, ironically, was impossible to feel.