Emphasis Preaching Journal

When we are transformed, we begin to see everything differently. This happened to Galileo, the famous Italian astronomer. When he was not yet famous, but already exercising "transformed seeing and thinking," he came to what turned out to be the right conclusions about which heavenly body moves around which. While the church of his day was convinced scripture required all believers to conceive of the earth as the center of the universe, with the sun moving around it, Galileo realized it was the other way around.