How did Cardinal Bellarmine respond to Galileo's argument that the passages in the Bible about the sun standing still should not

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How did Cardinal Bellarmine respond to Galileo's argument that the passages in the Bible about the sun standing still should not

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Lelechka [254] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-08T07:39:31+03:00

Bellarmine said, " the commentaries of modern writers on Genesis, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Joshua, you would find that all agree I'm explaining that the sun is in the heavens amd moves swiftly around the earth, and that the earth is far from the heavens and stands immobile in the center of the universe..."