Ah yes - the Raqia! There is and remains a great controversy in the faith community - a controversy that begins with a rejection of the dogma of science as a result of the lies that have been told to us over the years by a group who has always sought to rule over us. Lies have consequences - particularly when they are discovered. And although the truth can be repressed, censored, stricken, deleted, and even burned, its essence remains and comes back to haunt the liar in this life or the next. 

The truth exists and it prevails, even when it goes unnoticed for years, decades, centuries - even a millennia. Suddenly, it is discovered and revealed, and the liar is made known a liar for the whole world to see. "Trust the science" is both a demand and a plea made by people who are no longer deserving of trust in the marketplace of ideas; from the claim that New York would be under 15 feet of water by 2010, to the claim being made even now that "it's safe and effective" in the face of VAERS numbers exceeding 32,000, science as expressed in our current society cannot be trusted or believed and it will take decades to restore its credibility. 

Yet, because science has made duplicitous claims and erected false dogmas on the idea that "the science is settled" on the psychopathy of certain politicians does not mean that common understandings which preceded these modern prevaricators is false. 

Many people have taken to the idea that by literalizing scripture in the English language they can discover the "truth" about the shape of the earth. Literalizing scripture, however, can be dangerous, particularly when it comes to the circumcision of the heart! Sometimes, the English is an over-simplistic restatement  of a much deeper word found in the Ivriyt - the language in which the scripture was initially conceived. 

Raqia is just such a word. Join us this Thursday evening and Jon Hallam, Jessica Knock, and John Barr join together to dig into this topic, and as we unearth the firmament.